Trump at Midterm Convention: “Pretend I’m On The Ballot”
President Donald Trump addressed the first-ever Republican Midterm Convention on Wednesday night. Trump encouraged voters to pretend he is on the ballot and said he will “close out” the convention in a second speech on Thursday.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: For some reason when a president wins, even if he’s really a good president or a great president, there aren’t too many of them, they don’t win the midterms and nobody quite knows why. It’s two out of, think of it, two out of 25 races. We’re going to change that. There’s no reason for it. There’s no reason for it. It’s something deep down and psychological. You’re going to have to explain it, but I’ve asked people, what is the reason for it? If you have a president that’s doing a great job, I don’t think anybody’s ever had two years like we have. All over the world they’re admitting it. Other countries are failing and failing badly. But I say why is it that no matter how well you’re doing, we seem not a president, Democrat or Republican, almost never wins the midterms. We’ve got to change that because we have something going that’s so good we can’t let that string be broken. So I’m asking you to pretend that I’m on the ballot. I’m on the ballot. I’m on the ballot. Just one more time. Because if we lose, you’re going to lose your border. You’re going to lose your tax cuts. You’re going to lose your safety and security. You’re going to lose your wealth. Our country is going through hell. You will be going through hell just like you did just two years ago. We went through hell. We were a laughing stock all over the world. We were laughing. They don’t laugh at us anymore, do they? They don’t laugh. But that’s what would happen. The pundits, the fake news media, the radical left communists will say anything they can to try and stop us. But in this election, all that matters is that we are united, we are and what we say counts. That’s all that matters. And on November 3rd, the great American majority is going to stand up and continue to make America great again. And we will make our voices heard, perhaps like never before. That’s the beautiful challenge that the midterms are not supposed to be won by the sitting president. And we’re going to change that and we’ll make it an even more important time in our country and presidency. It’ll be something very special. We have to do it.
