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Former US President Donald Trump has been in Alaska over the weekend to support former Gov. Sarah Palin during her campaign to get a seat in the House of Representatives after this fall’s midterm elections.
Trump and Palin are both seen as key figures in what many observers see as the Republican Party’s shift towards a more populist direction in the past decade.
Both also drive intensely – and without any evidence – the claim that Donald Trump was “robbed” of his victory in the 2020 presidential election, when incumbent President Joe Biden took home the victory.
– In Alaska, we have not had to worry about that, because here we won, Trump stated in front of the crowd gathered at the Alaska Airlines Center in the city of Anchorage.
“Swept the carpet” for Trump
Palin became known to the general public when the now-deceased Republican senator John McCain nominated her as the vice presidential candidate in connection with his candidacy in the 2008 election.
As strongly as Palin emphasized her conservative Christian faith during the 2008 campaign, she emphasized herself as an outsider, an “outsider” in relation to the political establishment in the United States and in particular to Washington DC, where political power is concentrated.
That is why Palin is often regarded as the person who “swept the carpet” for businessman Donald Trump when he won the 2016 presidential election with similar messages.
The two Republicans’ offensive style and harsh rhetoric are in stark contrast to the messages from former Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and McCain. The latter was also posthumously awarded the President’s Medal of Freedom this week by Democrat Joe Biden.
58-year-old Sarah Palin is now campaigning to succeed Republican Congressman Don Young, who died in March this year after sitting in the House of Representatives for 49 years.
The midterm elections in the United States will be held on November 8, and all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and about a third of the seats in the Senate are up for grabs.
Candidate for next presidential election?
In the run-up to the election, Donald Trump is doing everything in his power to maintain his grip on the Republican Party. Primary elections are currently underway ahead of the midterm elections, and Trump almost exclusively supports candidates who drive his message that the previous presidential election was “stolen” by the Democrats.
– The election was rigged, it was stolen and now our country is being systematically destroyed, the 76-year-old ex-president shouted to the jubilant Alaska residents who came to the campaign meeting.
So far, Trump has not given any concrete message on whether he intends to run in the 2024 presidential election. But he has repeatedly hinted that it may be relevant. So again this time.
– I ran twice, I won both, Trump said without touching on the fact that Biden received almost seven million more votes in the 2020 election.
– And now. . . maybe we need to do it again.
Facts
US Interim Election 2022
The so-called mid-term elections in the United States will take place on November 8, 2022. At that time, all 435 members of the House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate’s 100 members will be re-elected. Today, Democrats have a majority in both houses, with 220 members in the House of Representatives and 50 in the Senate.
In parallel, a large number of gubernatorial elections are being held, as well as elections to state congresses, city councils and local governments in many places in the United States.
Local issues play a big role for many voters, so how things are going this autumn is difficult to predict.
Source: Real Clear Politics
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