President Trump laid out his plan Wednesday to help Republicans win 35 key midterm races in the final stretch before the fall elections.
Beginning in October, a month before the critical Nov. 3 contests, the president plans to hit the campaign trail and host several tele-rallies as part of his push to keep the House and Senate in Republican hands, he explained in remarks to GOP lawmakers and administration officials at a White House Rose Garden dinner.
“I’m going to take the final 30 days, maybe a little bit more than that, because it’s all about 35 races,” Trump said. “I’m going to go to every one of those 35 places, and we’re going to see if we can get everyone elected.”
He didn’t say which races he had in mind – there are 35 Senate seats up for grabs in November – but asked the lawmakers in attendance, including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), to “give me some names where, I say, is either tied, or you’re winning by a little bit, or you’re losing by a little bit.”
“In some cases, you can be losing by a lot, and we’ll bring you over the line,” Trump added. “But mostly, it’s if you’re close – and we’ll get, I think, we’ll get all those people elected.”
The president also teased a flurry of “tele-townhalls,” as many as 10-per-night, in the run-up to the midterms.
“They’re fantastic. They work amazingly,” he said.
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Trump specifically pledged to campaign in Alaska, for incumbent GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan, and in Texas, for Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is locked in a tight Senate race with Democrat James Talarico.
Trump compared the potentially brutal schedule to the final 120 days of his 2024 presidential campaign, during which he claims he swore-off playing golf.
“Four months out I said, ‘OK, no days off.’ If I didn’t make 4-5 speeches a day it was very bad. I just went around and really campaigned hard,” he recalled.
“For 4 months, there will be no pleasure. I’m not gonna go play golf. … All I’m gonna do is work, work, work, fight, fight, fight, win, win, win … and I did.”
