Trump midterm fundraising email, USA News (Washington DC): With one full week left before he meets his date with midterm destiny, President Donald Trump knows he is in trouble. In one of his final fundraising pitches to supporters, a Saturday email blast came titled “Farewell President Trump” and included a picture of the Maga leader boarding a train and waving goodbye from a railway station’s platform. “In just 1 week, we might have to say goodbye to each other forever,” the email warns. “Do not make me say goodbye,” urged the President, predicting that Republicans losing their majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate would leave him on the brink of departing the White House.
“On day 1, Democrats will file the Articles of Impeachment against me for the THIRD TIME. But this time they will have the votes – the votes to lock me out of the White House and throw away the key.” Nothing in that fundraising plea is true. Democratic Party leaders remain skittish about the prospect of beginning impeachment investigations against the President, because without a two-thirds majority in the Senate they would have no way of securing a conviction at trial. Not even the most optimistic of Democratic strategists believes that the party will come close to that kind of landslide electoral outcome on November 3 – election day.
The “STAND WITH TRUMP” fundraiser is not the first of its kind. On October 4 the President warned supporters that his time in office might come to an end as a result of a Democratic Party triumph in the midterms. “This could be my final four weeks as President,” the email warned. It shared a “critical reflection” in which Trump claimed to have prayed over the elections’ outcome in the White House Rose Garden. There is no evidence that Trump writes any of these emails himself. But they reflect a last-ditch Republican effort to get out the vote in the midterms by intimating that his presidency might end if Trump’s loyal grassroots supporters sit on their hands and stay home.
It also comes after recent campaign appearances by the President for GOP candidates in traditionally red states including Texas, Kansas and Ohio, an acknowledgement of serious fears that they could be ousted even in these Republican strongholds. “If our people sit this one out, it is over. No second chance. No do-over”, the email thunders. It reflects growing concern in Republican circles that Trump’s plunging approval ratings and the country’s affordability crisis sparked by his unresolved war on Iran may lead to a massive enthusiasm gap between the committed determination of Democrats to show up at the polls and the disappointed apathy of many Republican supporters.
