Op weg naar de Midterms2022 hebben de Republikeinen alvast één enorm voordeel op de Democraten: de inzet van een oud-president die er helemaal voor gaat.

Donald Trump begon zijn rally-seizoen afgelopen zaterdag met een bijeenkomst in Florence, Arizona.

De woorden van Trump zijn niet heel onverwacht, maar ze zijn wat zijn supporters horen willen:

“A great red wave is going to begin here in Arizona and is going to sweep across this country and it’s going to wash hundreds and thousands of Democrat socialists out of office with an unstoppable surge of Republican patriots, and they’re going to be doing it, you’re going to be heading to the polls,” Trump said at the Canyon Moon Ranch festival grounds, in Florence, a Republican stronghold about 70 miles southeast of Phoenix.
“This is the year we are going to take back the House, we are going to take back the Senate, and we are going to take back America. This is so important,” he told the crowd that responded in loud cheers.
“This is maybe the most important election we’ve ever had. I do believe that 2024 will be even more important … In 2024, we are going to take back the White House!” he added.

The former president described the crowd as a “sea of people” that stretched “as far as the eyes can see,” and urged media members present to turn their cameras around. Trump used the crowd size to question the results of the 2020 election.
“I ran twice, and we won twice, and we did better the second time … This crowd is a massive symbol of what took place because the people are hungry for the truth, they want their country back,” the former president asserted.

Trump weigert nog steeds te erkennen dat Biden in 2020 won, en gevoegd bij diens huidige politiek vormt de nieuwe Trump-agenda zichzelf:

“A person that comes here and has crowds that go further than any eye can see … and has cars that stretch out for 25 miles—that’s not somebody that lost an election,” he later said. “And now because of it, our country is being destroyed.”
Trump deplored the current state of the nation but expressed hope the situation will change, outlining agendas that include to eliminate COVID-19 mandates, investigate the events of Jan. 6, 2021, and combat illegal immigration.
During his speech, Trump endorsed Kari Lake for Arizona governor while calling incumbent Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, a “terrible representative” of the state.
Lake, a former journalist, promised to eliminate mandates if she becomes governor. She also promised she would help to ensure election integrity and address illegal immigration, including to finish building the border wall.

De staatsdwang die in de door Biden gepromote Corona-mandaten zit verpakt speelt de Republikeinen in de kaart, zeker nu het Hooggerechtshof die mandaten heeft getorpedeerd:

“This is the moment the Americans must take their lives and their future back,” he added.
“We have to do it. We have to be strong. It’s time for the radical Democrats to leave our families alone, leave our elderly alone, leave our children alone with their strong immune system.”

De Jan. 6 Probe
The former president said that if Republicans regain control of congress, they will start an investigation into the events of Jan. 6, 2021, the day when the U.S. Capitol was breached.
“We will immediately begin our own investigations into what happened—what really happened, because this is being totally whitewashed,” Trump said, while denouncing the current Democrat-led House committee investigation of Jan. 6.
“January 6 has become the Democrat Party’s excuse to justify an unprecedented assault on Americans’ civil rights and liberties,” Trump said.
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“The American people deserve answers,” he said. “The Jan. 6 rally was a protest against a crooked election carried out by unhinged Democrats, Big Tech, working with the fake news media, all working together to defeat Republicans, and your favorite president—me.”

Borderwall
En zo kom je ook weer uit bij de Borderwall

Trump said that one of Republicans’ top priorities if they regain control of Congress will be to “stop the illegal flood of aliens across our southern border,” which includes human trafficking.
Trump said Republicans plan to increase the number of ICE and Border Patrol officers to detain and deport illegal aliens.
“We should also pass a law that says that sanctuary city officials who knowingly release criminals will be charged as accessories in any future crimes.”
The border situation changed from “best” to “worst” in the span of one year, he said.
“Over 2 million illegal aliens have trespassed across our borders—but that’s also a fake number given by the press and others,” Trump said, adding that he believes the number could be “10 times that amount.”
“I think we’re talking about tens of millions of people are pouring into this country,” he suggested. “We see certain people and we sort of lock it down, well that’s the number, but it’s not. I think that it’s tens of millions of people, and these are not necessarily people we want in our country.”
Trump noted a “record number” of undocumented migrant children arriving across the border. He accused Democrats of pushing “very cruel policies are pushing vulnerable youths into the arms of child smugglers, human traffickers, and very vicious criminal cartels.”
“What the criminal cartels are doing to women and children—unbelievable. The trafficking is mostly in women, [and] what they’re doing to women is horrible. Yet despite all of this … the radical left are still hellbent on passing mass amnesty for illegal aliens,” Trump said.

De Democraten daarentegen zullen het niet moeten hebben van Joe Biden. Daar blijken steeds meer mensen op uitgekeken:

Ook bij SNL:

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Onmiskenbaar vormt zich door de incompetentie van de regering-Biden een agenda die veel Republikeinen en kiezers zal aanspreken tijdens USA2024. Trump zal er de vaandeldrager van worden, domweg omdat hij er eerder ook de schietschijf voor was.

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