Republicans aims for massive midterm win on final trail day

• Democrats are playing defense in blue-state bastions like New York, Washington, and Oregon.
• The fate of the Senate will be decided by a few tight races in swing states.
• Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel predicted her party would win both the House and Senate. Florida Sen.

As Democrats being criticized for soaring crime and inflation, Republicans are growing more certain that they will win a sizable majority in the midterm elections on Tuesday. President Joe Biden is trying to buy time by warning that GOP election deniers risk destroying democracy.

Four presidents—Biden, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton—went on the campaign road over the weekend as a sign of the crucial stakes and the mounting unease among Democrats.

Ex-President Trump, edging ever closer to announcing a 2024 White House bid, will wrap up a campaign he used to show his enduring magnetism among grassroots Republicans, in Ohio, with a rally for Senate nominee J.D. Vance on Monday. In a speech that concluded in pouring rain for Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on Sunday, Trump predicted voters would “elect an incredible slate of true MAGA warriors to Congress.”

The nation’s core values are in danger from Republicans who have denied the truth about the US Capitol insurrection and in response to the vicious attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul, according to Biden, who spent Saturday registering voters in the crucial Pennsylvania Senate race alongside Obama.

“Democracy is literally on the ballot. This is a defining moment for the nation. And we all must speak with one voice regardless of our party. There’s no place in America for political violence,” Biden said.

At a Democratic rally in Maryland, the president will put a stop to his attempt to avoid a criticism from the public. His weakened position in an election that has turned into a referendum on his damaged reputation and low approval ratings is reflected by the fact that he will be in a liberal stronghold and not seeking to support a vulnerable lawmaker in a crucial race on the last night.

In blue-state bastions like New York, Washington, and Oregon, Democrats are playing defense while waging an uphill battle to keep onto the House of Representatives. To regain control, Republicans just need a net gain of five seats. The fate of the Senate, which is now evenly divided, will be decided by a few tight races in swing states, including Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, and Pennsylvania. Republicans are also exhibiting increasing interest in the election in New Hampshire between pro-Trump candidate Don Bolduc and retired Army Brig. Gen. Maggie Hassan, who are both Democrats.

Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel predicted that her party would win both the House and the Senate and accused Biden of being oblivious to the economic anxiety among Americans with his repeated warnings about democracy.

“Here’s where the Democrats are: they’re inflation deniers, they are crime deniers, they’re education deniers,” McDaniel said.

Florida Sen. Rick Scott, who heads the GOP Senate campaign committee, predicted his party would surge to a majority on Tuesday.

“We’re going to get 52-plus,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday referring to the tally of seats he was expecting to control.

But the president cautioned in a speech delivered with Obama in Pittsburgh on Saturday night that the Republican concern over the economy was a deception and that, if the GOP won majorities, they would reduce Social Security and Medicare.

“Look, they’re all about the wealthier getting wealthy. And the wealthier staying wealthy. The middle class gets stiffed. The poor get poorer under their policy,” Biden said.

The midterm elections are the first national vote since Trump’s refusal to accept the outcome of the 2016 presidential election sparked chaos and violence, and there are already concerns that some Republican candidates may follow in his footsteps and try to ignore the will of voters if they lose if they don’t win. Some have already voiced reservations about the validity of the vote, including Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson.

In another development on Sunday, a staffer at the headquarters of Kari Lake, the pro-Trump nominee in the Arizona gubernatorial contest, opened a letter containing suspicious white powder. Lake’s opponent, current Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, condemned the incident as “incredibly concerning.”

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