Sam Adah, Abuja
Donald Trump closed out his address in Kansas saying “we’re hotter now than ever before and hotter than we’ve ever been. We’re going to go up a long ways from here.”
It’s my honor to be your president during such an exciting time in the history of our country … There’s no greater honor.”
Trump may campaign in 2028, but this election marks the end of the campaign rallies – with their unique blend of politics and entertainment – which will directly affect his ability to govern from the White House.
“We’ve been doing this for eleven years, and there’s never been anything like it, and it probably never will be again. There will never be the crowds. They’ll never be the feeling. I don’t think it can ever happen again. This is a unique thing that’s taken place.”
“So let’s go out and do what we do best, which is to win, win, win. Let’s make the next two years bigger and better and stronger than ever before, because together we will make America powerful again wealthy again, healthy again, strong again, proud again, safe again, and most importantly, we will make America great again.”
The New York Times has released its final set of polls ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, showing Democrats ahead of Republicans in all of the seven battleground states that will determine which party controls the Senate.
The polls, published by the NYT and Siena University, have Michigan’s Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed with a 53% to 42% lead over Republican Mike Rogers. The poll was conducted before El-Sayed’s primary opponent Haley Stevens defected to endorse Rogers.
The poll is among the more optimistic for Democrats chances of taking the Senate, with the party ahead by seven points in Texas, six points in Maine, five points in Ohio and five points in Kansas, which has not elected a Democratic Senator since 1932.
In an article assessing whether polls that show a “blue surge” can be trusted, particularly after the polling misses of 2020 and 2016, the paper’s chief political analyst, Nate Cohn, explains the efforts that have been made by pollsters to correct for past errors.
Cohn says the way the NYT/ Siena poll weights respondents answers has been tinkered with to try to account for Trump voters who have been historically underrepresented in polls.
He says those changes have slightly muted Democrat leads across all of the key battleground states, and if the same polls were run using the weighting from prior, cycles Democrats would be up to 16 points ahead in Michigan and nine points ahead in Texas.
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