Trump has canceled caucuses in Kansas and Iowa this weekend. Instead, he will hold at least 20 “telerallies”.
President of the United States, Donald Trump, cancels two voter meetings that should have been held in the US states of Kansas and Iowa this weekend.
This was announced by the Republican National Committee (RNC), which is the Republican Party organization, on Friday night, according to the Associated Press (AP) news agency.
Trump will instead spend the next 72 hours holding so-called “telerallies” – telephone voter meetings – where the president speaks to voters online, it appears.
According to the RNC, the change will enable Trump to reach as many voters as possible across the country ahead of the midterm elections on Tuesday, November 3.
The party organization announces that telephone caucuses are planned in 20 US states and that more caucuses of this type may be announced in the near future.
Thus, the voter meeting in Daytona Beach in Florida on the night of Saturday Danish time will be the last voter meeting where the president will be physically present on a stage with an audience.
At the beginning of October, Trump launched a 32-day election campaign in an attempt to strengthen the chances of the Republican candidates in the midterm elections.
According to AP, he has had a stated goal of holding more than 30 voter meetings. So far there have been 25.
According to the American news agency, there have been signs this week that the many trips and long speeches have begun to wear on the president.
– God did not create your vocal cords to hold voter meetings every day, Trump said Monday in a hoarse voice during a voter rally in Mississippi.
On Friday night, he responded pointedly when a reporter asked if health was the reason for the canceled trip to Kansas.
– You have been following me for two weeks. I’m perfectly fine, was Trump’s response, before asking the journalist to “get in shape” himself.
Several polls indicate that the Republicans may find it difficult to maintain the majority in the two chambers of Congress, the Senate and the House of Representatives. In both places, the party has a narrow majority.
Kansas is traditionally considered to be among the Republican strongholds, while Iowa pointed convincingly to Trump in the 2024 presidential election.
According to AP, close elections are expected in both Kansas and Iowa, as well as in Alaska, Ohio, Texas and South Carolina.
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