Trump discussed caulk, rusty pipes and turf for more than 20 minutes before briefly addressing the humiliating defeat he’s predicted to be handed tomorrow
Trump gave a speehc about the refurbishment of the Lincoln reflecting pool(Image: JIM LO SCALZO/EPA/Shutterstock)
Donald Trump closed out his midterms election campaign with a bizarre event about landscaping, concrete and algae, celebrating his many vanity construction projects.
Just hours before polling opened across the country, with Democrats expected to give Trump’s Republicans a thumping, Trump summoned cronies and media to the Lincoln Reflecting Pool to mark its refurbishment.
Trump discussed caulk, rusty pipes and turf for more than 20 minutes before briefly addressing the humiliating defeat he’s predicted to be handed tomorrow.
Elsewhere in the country, election candidates in the House, Senate and Governor races held rallies with their final messages to voters.
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat candidate for Senate in Michigan, was joined by Senator Elizabeth Warren and rapper Common at a rally in Detroit.
“It shouldn’t be this hard,” he told the crowd. “It shouldn’t be this hard in the richest country in the world to afford a tank of gas. It shouldn’t be this hard to pay your rent or your mortgage. Shouldn’t be this hard to buy a bag of groceries. It shouldn’t be this hard to see a doctor.
“And it shouldn’t be this hard to pay your taxes and know that that money is going to be spent on you and your kids instead of dropping bombs on somebody else and their kids.”
Meanwhile, standing on the banks of the reflecting pool, Trump told a small crowd: “We have a lot of great things planned for Washington, and I could get into the nation, but for that, you don’t have enough time.”
The odd decision to end the campaign with an event on an unrelated topic is a departure from how Trump prosecuted the midterms during his first term, when he held three rallies in different states on the final day before polling.
Republicans are expected to get a shellacking in tomorrow’s vote, with most major pollsters now predicting the Democrats will seize control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Trump did briefly address Republicans’ predicted defeat, saying: “For some reason the sitting president doesn’t win the midterms. But we gave this a very strong shot.”
Meanwhile, Michigan Republican Mike Rogers welcomed the endorsement of Democrat Haley Stevens at his rally in Rochester Hills
In dramatic scenes on Sunday, Congresswoman Stevens – who was defeated by El Sayed in the Democrat Senate Primary – announced she would be voting for Rogers, a Trump-backed MAGA Repubican, in the election.
Rogers said Stevens’ defection took “a special kind of courage.”
“This is bigger than left or right,” he said. “This is about who we are in America and what America looks like for our children.”
But the defection seems to have backfired.
The El Sayed campaign raised more than $2m in a single day after Stevens’ announcement. And El Sayed has opened up an 11 point lead according to the newly published New York Times/Siena poll.
