With Midterms Approaching, Trump Implores Republicans: Pretend I’m on the Ballot!
New York Times · LC · trust 41/100
President Trump was in South Carolina to stump for Darline Graham, sister of Lindsey. But his own political future was on his mind, too.
Listen · 7:30 min Share full article President Trump appeared at a rally with Senator Darline Graham ahead of the South Carolina Senate runoff. Credit... Alex Kent/The New York Times By Shawn McCreesh
Shawn McCreesh, a White House correspondent, reported from President Trump’s rally in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
This was one of many open questions in the air Friday night inside the convention center in Myrtle Beach, S.C., where the president showed up and pleaded with hundreds of Republicans not to forsake him in the coming midterm elections.
“You’re going to lose everything,” he warned.
At another point, he fretted: “I’m going to be impeached. They’re going to impeach me.”
This rhetoric was quite different from the cavalier comments he’s been making back in Washington about his political future that have congressional Republicans so freaked out about their own. Comments such as: “I don’t care about the midterms” and “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation” and “I love the inflation.”
The immediate reason he was in South Carolina was to boost his anointed Senate candidate, Darline Graham, sister of Lindsey, whose race for the Republican nomination has gone wobbly more than a month after her brother’s death. She’s clinging tight to Mr. Trump’s Brioni coattails, but is that enough to win these days?
Reading from a teleprompter, Mr. Trump recited some nice lines written about Ms. Graham, said a few nice things about her brother, and talked a bit about the political landscape in the state. He brought her up on a stage for a moment. And he reminded the crowd that she won the endorsement of Gov. Henry McMaster, a Republican who was in the convention center.
But mostly Mr. Trump talked about himself and how swimmingly his second term is going. He opened by talking about the ballroom he is building, said the war with Iran is a smashing success, and insisted his economy is as good as it’s ever been.
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