President Donald Trump stood at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Monday to deliver his final midterm election message, speaking hours before polls opened nationwide.
The president used the address to frame the election in stark terms, accusing Democrats of fielding what he called the most extreme slate of candidates in the party’s history.
“The Democrat Party has nominated the most extreme and dangerous slate of candidates in American history. These are the most dangerous candidates ever put up,” Trump said.
He went further, alleging without providing evidence that the field included “jihadists and Muslim Brotherhood members,” saying, “there’s never been anything like what we’re seeing… and all committed to the same radical agenda.”
Trump described that agenda as including “open borders, raising your taxes by trillions of dollars, taking away your guns, transgender mutilalization of your children, abolishing oil and natural gas, sending energy costs skyrocketing, and opening the floodgates to millions of migrants from all over the world, hoping to get them to be able to vote.”
“We fought for 250 years to make [America] great. We’re not going to let it be torn down by a bunch of people that have failed everywhere they’ve been, because the ideologies that you’re talking about, various ideologies, they’ve always failed every single time,” Trump said.
Administration Record Cited
Trump spent much of the speech touting what he described as accomplishments from his first 20 months back in office, pointing to border enforcement, tax cuts, export levels, the poverty rate, and American energy production.
“We’ve gone 17 months without one person entering our country illegally from the southern border. Before that, it was 25 million came in, and they came in from mental institutions and prisons, and they were drug dealers, very sick people in many ways,” he said.
He also credited the One Big Beautiful Bill, which eliminated taxes on tips, overtime pay, and Social Security income for certain seniors, as a driver of economic gains.
“The poverty rate is at an all-time record low, meaning good, best poverty rate we’ve had ever in history. Best personal incomes we’ve had ever in history. American exports are at an all-time high, and more people are working today than at any point in the history of our country,” Trump said.
Trump added that “the United States is now by far the largest supplier of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world,” and said his administration had helped create “25 trillion in wealth.”
A Call for Turnout
Closing his remarks, Trump predicted a decisive Republican victory if his 2024 coalition shows up at the polls for the midterms.
“If the people that voted for me and voted in the last election, where we had such a great victory, if they go out and vote, just a good portion of them, we will win in a landslide,” Trump said.
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