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Post by Admin on Nov 6, 2018 4:52:32 GMT
Trump hosts final pre-Election Day 'MAGA' rally Cape Girardeau, Missouri - Special guests Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Lee Greenwood will be in attendance at President Trump's last campaign rally for the 2018 midterm elections.  He has put himself right bang in the centre of the campaign, and has been hurtling round the country energetically in these final days. Air Force One, the taxpayer funded backdrop to these highly partisan occasions. He's been doing this in support of Republican candidates, yes - but ultimately making this a referendum on his presidency. Wherever possible he has dictated the terms of debate. And no one dictates the terms of debate like he does. Presidents have always commanded attention. Theodore Roosevelt called the White House his "bully pulpit" - the place from which he could demand attention and advance his agenda. But Donald Trump has his own bully pulpit, 55 million Twitter followers and a penchant for saying the outrageous.  You feel that everything in American life is a reaction to what Donald Trump has said. His followers adoring it, his opponents deploring it and the candidates actually on the ballot trying to get a word in edgeways. And this has generated real excitement in these elections - both for and against him. So far the number of people who've voted early is something like twice the number it was four years ago. That is staggering. Live coverage of the 2018 midterm elections as Campaign 2018 is in full swing. Stay here for results throughout the night from CBSN as America votes for key Gubernatorial, Senate and House candidates across the country. |
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Post by Admin on Nov 6, 2018 17:57:04 GMT
LIVE: President Trump in Chattanooga, TN
President Donald Trump rushed around the country Monday in a final bid to drive his voters to the polls and blunt any late Democratic momentum in the battle for control of the Senate.
The president kicked off the final day of the campaign with a rally in Ohio, where he told supporters midterm elections used to be “boring” before he took office. Implored his supporters to vote as if he’s on the ballot Tuesday, he echoed the messages he's been delivering down the home stretch: That putting Democrats in charge of Congress would put the robust economy in jeopardy and risk opening the borders to undocumented immigrants.
LIVE: President Trump in Fort Wayne, IN
Trump will conclude his campaign sprint with back-to-back rallies in Missouri and Indiana, two states he won overwhelmingly in 2016 that are critical to Republican hopes to maintain or grow their Senate majority.
“It’s all fragile. We have to go out and we have to vote,” Trump said on a conference call with his supporters Monday ahead of his three-rally day. “Even though I’m not on a ballot, in a certain way I’m on the ballot.”
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Post by Admin on Nov 7, 2018 4:20:03 GMT
Democrats will reclaim a majority in the House, NBC News projected Tuesday night. By 10 p.m. ET, the party had picked up at least a dozen seats in the House, and was likely to claim many as 33 — well over the 23 needed to take the majority.  The call came with Democrats positioned to claim victory in several key congressional races, as polls began closing in the eastern United States. The first big pick-up for Democrats came early, when NBC News projected that incumbent GOP Rep. Barbara Comstock, R-Va., would lose her House seat in that state's 10th Congressional District to Democrat Jennifer Wexton. The race, in a suburban northern Virginia district Hillary Clinton won by 10 percentage points in 2016, had been regarded by many observers as critical to Republican hopes of maintaining control of the lower chamber.  The US holds congressional elections every two years. At each election the whole of the House of Representatives and one third of the 100-member Senate are elected. The representatives thus serve a two-year term, and the senators six years. These elections are known as midterms when they fall outside the four-year presidential election cycle. Being in the middle of the presidential term, they are usually understood to be at least partially a reaction to the president's performance so far, and usually see the president's party losing seats. |
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Post by Admin on Nov 7, 2018 17:43:56 GMT
U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., was projected to easily defeat former Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen in the state's closely watched U.S. Senate race Tuesday night, tightening the GOP's hold on the upper chamber of Congress. The race made headlines in the entertainment world last month when pop singer Taylor Swift endorsed Bredesen, but speculation of a "Taylor Swift effect" that would motivate young voters to tip the race to the Democrat proved unfounded. With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Blackburn had garnered 55 percent of the vote to 43 percent for Bredesen. Blackburn had trailed Bredesen in the polls throughout the summer, but gradually closed the gap, and took the lead with approximately one month to go. Blackburn, an eight-term congresswoman, had allied herself closely with President Trump. She will become Tennessee's first female U.S. senator, replacing the retiring Bob Corker.  |
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Post by Admin on Nov 8, 2018 17:48:10 GMT
President Trump holds a post-election press conference The White House revoked Jim Acosta’s press credentials Wednesday after he had a heated exchange with President Donald Trump at a news conference and an intern tried to grab a microphone from the CNN reporter. “As a result of today’s incident, the White House is suspending the hard pass of the reporter involved until further notice,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters.  Acosta also tweeted that he had been denied entrance to the White House, where he was scheduled to film a spot for CNN, a network Trump has repeatedly targeted as “fake news.” |
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