AP Analysis: Trump firing up his base
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(23 Oct 2018) With two weeks left before the midterm elections, President Donald Trump is ratcheting up the rhetoric to fire up the Republican base to come out and vote. Some of top subjects he's talked about during rallies around the country include announcing he is as a nationalist, promising middle class tax relief and vilifying thousands of migrants in a caravan moving towards the U.S. border. Associated Press White House reporter Zeke Miller says "the way the president is framing this election is really about the consequences of Democratic control." "He's trying to phrase this, frame this as he's provided the American people X and Democrats want to subtract X for those people. That's a classic midterm election strategy by a president and one that we're seeing the president have deployed in these final two weeks, going into Election Day." Trump is betting that his latest focus will further erode the enthusiasm gap that began to close during the debate over Brett Kavanaugh, Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court. But the approach offers both risks and rewards. The hard-line rhetoric may be popular among the red-state rural Republicans who will play an outsized role in the top Senate contests. But it may further alienate the moderate Republicans and women in the overwhelmingly suburban races that will decide the House majority - including several in Texas, California and Florida that feature large Hispanic populations. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/f720ac9c8b53d57570925a1e27f08baa
