Trump Plans Five Rallies in Final Week Before Midterms, Urging Voters to Treat Him as on Ballot
Photo: Daily WirePresident Donald Trump is returning to the road in the final week before the midterm elections, with five rallies planned between Wednesday and Sunday, according to reports on his schedule. On Wednesday he will hold his 28th rally of the midterm cycle in Ohio, backing Senator Jon Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy. He is due to speak Thursday in Rock Hill, South Carolina, on Friday in Daytona Beach, Saturday in Salina, Kansas, and Sunday in Dubuque, Iowa.
The campaign blitz has largely consisted of day trips that end with Trump back at the White House at one or two in the morning, and he almost always takes press questions when leaving the White House or boarding Air Force One. He has been telling supporters to close their eyes and pretend he is on the ballot. He has been the center of the nation's political gravity for more than a decade.
The Washington Post, on the left, leads with Trump's strategy and asks in its headline whether his "cure" for Republicans' midterm woes, more Trump, will work. Its excerpt says he has seized the spotlight in a way that makes the make-believe ballot idea feel more real. The Daily Wire, on the right, leads with logistics: the city-by-city schedule, the Husted and Ramaswamy rally, and the late-night returns. It features Iowa voter Doug Smith, who praised Trump as a patriot and dismissed legacy media suggestions that his voters would turn on him. Both treat Trump as central to the final stretch. The Post frames it as a test of a strategy for troubled Republicans, while the Daily Wire does not mention woes and relies on supporter voices. AP, listed as independent, runs the same headline as the Post and calls the appeal self-involved.
How the sides differ Left sources frame Trump's midterm push as a gamble to cure Republican woes; right sources stress his rally schedule and loyal supporters.
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The Washington Post leads with Trump's strategy of asking voters to imagine him on the ballot, framing it as a cure for Republican midterm woes and asking whether it will work.
AP runs the same headline as the Post and opens with Trump's "close your eyes" line, calling the appeal self-involved from someone at the center of politics for over a decade.
The Daily Wire leads with Trump's final-week rally schedule and late-night day trips, featuring an Iowa voter who praises his loyalty and patriotism and rejects talk of voters turning on him.