Trump’s Kansas dance before election!
Salinas, Kansas, USA, Nov 1 (EFE).-
President Donald Trump sought to mobilize Republican voters in Kansas on Sunday to prevent the state from electing a Democratic senator for the first time in 94 years.
This on-the-ground rally had a farewell feel, as it was technically the last one in which the New Yorker has his own political future at stake.
Trump closed the event, held in the town of Salina, as usual, with his signature dance to the Village People’s “YMCA.”
This is a scene that may never be seen again and stands as a testament to a decade in which the real estate mogul has turned American politics upside down and transformed the Republican Party.
“I’m closing it down tonight, this is it,” Trump declared in Salina, at the 30th campaign event he has held in the last 31 days to mobilize his base for the Nov. 3 midterm elections.
Tina Wehner and her husband Steve drove three and a half hours to be in Salina this Sunday for her ninth Trump rally and his sixth.
“We didn’t want to miss it,” they said.
They called him an idol and believe he has the right to run for president again because they consider the 2020 election fraudulent, but they admit that legally it’s not possible for him to run again, and that’s why they say the were “very excited” to see the Republican take the stage.
Final speech
A final speech that the president has scheduled in Washington on Monday will bring to a close a campaign that has sought to counter the discontent among Americans over the high cost of living, a phenomenon in which the trade war with Iran that Trump initiated in February plays a key role.
The trade war that the president championed has also hurt farmers in Kansas, one of the states in the country’s agricultural heartland, in the lead-up to these midterm elections.
This, coupled with the surge of Democrat Adam Hamilton, a Methodist minister and former Republican now running to unseat incumbent Roger Marshall in the Senate, has intensified the race in a state that hasn’t elected a liberal senator since 1932.
Trump called for support for Marshall and reiterated his campaign mantra, “pretend I’m on the ballot,” while also accusing Hamilton of being a “woke pastor.”
Almost 11 and a half years have passed between today’s event and the announcement of his 2016 presidential candidacy, as Trump himself pointed out.
On that day, June 15, 2015, the businessman descended the golden escalator in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York before announcing his bid for the Republican nomination and then flying to Iowa, where he held the first of his colorful and unorthodox campaign rallies.
Since then, the Republican has held hundreds of rallies, events marked by the now-president’s entrance to the tune of Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” by his lengthy speeches filled with extravagant circumlocutions, and also by his unique ability to connect with the frustrations of millions of Americans.
Establishing the total number of Trump rallies is a difficult task, with estimates ranging from approximately 700, as reported by The Washington Post, to more than 900, as claimed by Trump himself since that summer of 2015. EFE
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