On September 5, in the United States, Labor Day will mark the start of the mid-term election season to be held in November. Its name is not on any ballot, but this maturity traditionally unfavorable to the party which occupies the White House will however constitute a test of truth for the undisputed boss of the republican camp, Donald Trump.
These midterms promised themselves before the devastating summer for the Democrats in the House of Representatives as in the Senate. Everything contributed to it: the mediocre popularity of Joe Biden, fueled by the persistence of inflation, as much as the narrow majorities held by his party in the two chambers of the Congress. Two months before the deadline, the rout seems less guaranteed, however, in large part because of the old businessman omnipresent as much as IMNIPOTE in his camp.
The republican primaries who have stretched until the middle of summer were indeed an opportunity to measure his decisive influence on a basis which now has the main creed the theory of the rigged election of Joe Biden. The majority of candidates who were dubbed by Donald Trump after having endorsed this new Doxa won, whatever their journey, thanks to this clanism bonus.
more experienced democrats
But the great Old Party now measures the price of choosing radicality. In the key states for the control of the Senate such as Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Ohio, republican candidates are for the moment pain in the face of more experienced or more measured democratic opponents.
This is the case of a well -known television host, Mehmet Cengiz Öz, aka the “Dr Oz”, who faces the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, however weakened by a heart accident in the spring. In Georgia, a former African-American American football player, Herschel Walker, also finds himself in a delicate situation against the outgoing African-American senator, pastor of his state. The former sportsman complicated his task by embellishing his past.
The head of the Republican minority of the Senate, Mitch McConnell, has cleared in advance a possible failure to overthrow the very frail majority democratic by implicating “the quality of the candidates” of his camp present in November. Donald Trump reacted immediately by asking for his head. Mitch McConnell certainly remembers that the radical wave of the Tea Party, from 2010, had also crowned fiery candidates during the primaries which had then appeared in the general elections.
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