Trump heads on five-state rally blitz amid Supreme Court chaos

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters



SEPTEMBER 29, 2018 / 7:11 AM / UPDATED 30 MINUTES AGO

Roberta Rampton


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday kicks off a week of rallies in five friendly places around the country, seeking to shore up support ahead of congressional elections even as the fate of his pick to fill a Supreme Court vacancy remains unclear.

Republicans are at risk of losing control of Congress in the Nov. 6 elections, which could impede Trump’s goals to clamp down on immigration, cut taxes, approve new bilateral trade deals, and invest in infrastructure. Allegations of sexual misconduct against Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, have complicated his confirmation proceedings, disappointing conservative voters and energizing Democrats. Kavanaugh denies the accusations.

Trump travels first to Wheeling, West Virginia on Saturday, where Republicans are trying to unseat Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, one of a handful of senators seen as key swing votes that will determine Kavanaugh’s appointment.

Trump will then hold evening rallies in Johnson City, Tennessee on Monday; Southaven, Mississippi on Tuesday; Rochester, Minnesota on Thursday; and Topeka, Kansas next Saturday.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-election/trump-heads-on-five-state-rally-blitz-amid-supreme-court-chaos-idUSKCN1M90CS

[beachbum bob]

1. great, he will energize the democratic voters in these states!!!!

to vote for democrats, same with independent voters. Trump is the best thing to have going around the country as he will make more democrats vote!!!

[TreasonousBastard]

2. I'm still curious who's paying for these campaigning trips...

Shouldn't it be someone's campaign funds?

[former9thward]

6. The campaign pays for the rally.

But most of the expenses are paid by taxpayers. Since campaign finance laws changed in the mid-70s every president since then has used accounting tricks to have the taxpayers pay for most of the expenses.

A president will schedule some minor non political event in the area he wants to campaign in (such as visiting a school) and that legally justifies the cost of flying him out there and related costs. Then the cost of getting him to the campaign site and back to Air Force 1 is picked up by the campaign. Both parties have done this and it is an accepted practice which is why you don't hear complaints about it.

[Fred Sanders]

9. Five more days to prove to the cabinet, and Anonymous to push them, to invoke the 25th

and put the world out of it's misery?

I will pay for it!

Of course he just wants to feed more and more red meat to his red meat eaters...that he has five frenzied feeding days is...fear.

Hitler had radio and newspapers, Shitler has TV and Twittler.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. It's been all Kavanaugh all week

Meanwhile Mueller's been rolling merrily along

[getagrip_already]

19. looks like muehler has gone quiet until after the mid terms......

He hasn't even indicted stone yet. And stone isn't a candidate for anything.

Hopefully by t-day we will have something to shut up every family's drunk trumpists....... Or at least have something to enrage them. I love me when a good witch hunt actually catches some......

[turbinetree]

4. And I hope Protesters show up at and outside his events to remind him..............

your pick for the court is going down......................sexual predator..........

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Manchin.

For Trump, this is a calculated risk to rally for Manchin's republican adversary.

Campaigning against Manchin can be seen two ways: A) Energize Trump's base to come out and dislodge Manchin as their senator, or B) to threaten Manchin into voting to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the USSC.

And if the latter, will Manchin vote to confirm, knowing that he could STILL lose his seat or will Manchin energize HIS base by voting against Kavanaugh?

The USSC vote may well come before the Midterms. Manchin will be crunching numbers this week-end.

[getagrip_already]

20. manchin already said no - didn't he?

or am I thinking of someone else?

Anyway, trump doesn't think that hard. To him, every time he opens his mouth or tweets something it helps. He would go everywhere if he could. He is raising a lot of money he considers his own.

The real calculus is being done by the gop candidates. They have to decide if trump will help more than he will hurt. Then they have to find a way to keep him away.

So far, trump has hurt candidates he thinks he is helping. He kills everything he touches. Once candidates realize it, they will start signalling for him to stay away. Many won't appear with him already. He just shows up anyway.

[ananda]

7. Minnesota?

Really?

[pazzyanne]

12. He is coming and we are ready!

"Two local advocacy groups — including the union-backed Communities United for Rochester Empowerment — are organizing a “GreaterThanFear” rally in protest of Trumps’s appearance in Rochester.
Organizers say additional details will be made available in the coming days. Already, hundreds of people have RSVPed for the protest on Facebook."


He drew about 8,000 people when he was in Duluth. Many of those were from Wisconsin and North Dakota. I know that North Dakota sent busses. On the other side of this, we had plenty of protesters there, too.

[LakeSuperiorView]

8. Campaigning for Jason Lewis, who lamented not being able to call women sluts any more in MN.

Jason Lewis is a piece of crap right wing hate radio asshole who ran for congress and won in conservative southern Minnesota. He is comparable to the manure they are spreading on the fields about now. Hope the air is nice and fragrant for tRump next Thursday.

[Scruffy1]

15. Rochester is in the ist District.

It's a close race between Hagedorn(R) and Feehan (D). Jason Lew(assclown) is toast and only won in the second because of a third party candidate, who is not running this year.

[dalton99a]

10. Good time to run his mouth some more

It's time for Trump to be the center of attention

[MissMillie]

11. he has something better to do...

...play golf?

Kiss Putin's ass?

[keithbvadu2]

13. What about Texas?

What about Texas?

[Mc Mike]

14. Like Li'l bush's barnstorming for Social Security privatization, in '05.

I hope he doesn't tire himself out, burning the candle at both ends like this.

I hold no such hope for his rally goers, there's no doubt they'll be tired of him rambling and promoting himself long before he tires of it himself. And they'll secretly swear to not go back for the hours long ordeal the next time the orange clown's circus comes to town.

[Dave Starsky]

16. Well, he's certainly worn all the rest of us out.

Republicans are getting tired of him and his ceaseless drama. Even my brother's idiot teabagger mother-in-law has completely ceased talking about him.

Trump fatigue is real, is palpable, and has firmly hit the nation, a month before the midterms and two years before the next general election.

So keep it up, fathead. Get your ugly orange mug out there as much as you possibly can.

[Mc Mike]

21. Right on, Dave. rec, Nt

[KPN]

17. These are all places that the orange asshole asbsolutely abhors in his personal life. In his mind,

they are wastelands occupied by heathens ... and yet those heathens turn out in droves to see this horrible, deceiving and malignant excuse for a person.

Sickening! One day they will all suffer the consequences of their shallowness.

[ffr]

18. At what cost to taxpayers? Shuttled by plane, then by car, all the security detail

What a waste!

LOCK HIM UP! It'll be cheaper.