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Showing posts with label midterm convention. Show all posts
Showing posts with label midterm convention. Show all posts
Monday, September 14, 2026
Taxes wouldn’t fund $5,000 Trump ‘dividend’ if Republicans win midterms, says commerce secretary
Lutnick said $500bn of estimated $1tn needed to fund checks to all US adults could come from new visa program…
Sunday, September 13, 2026
Saturday, September 12, 2026
‘Dangerous, radical and frankly weird’: How Republicans used their Dallas convention to frame up the midterms - POLITICO
In an election that is likely to be decided over the cost of living, Republicans are doing everything they can to paint their Democratic opponents as radicals...
WATCH: Trump leads RNC in pledge to 'cheat like hell' in November elections | PBS News
After President Donald Trump told attendees at the Republican midterm convention Thursday night that "we want honesty in our elections," he led them in a pledge to "cheat like hell" and "go out and vote" in the midterm elections…
7 takeaways from the ‘Trumpapalooza’ Republican convention : NPR
- Republicans have an enthusiasm problem
- The message emphasized personal attacks over policy
- The rise of the -isms
- What war?
- 2028 looms over everything
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/11/nx-s1-5962848/republican-convention-trump-dividend-vance-midterms
JD Vance pitches himself as Trump’s political heir on day two of Republican midterm convention
Vice-president dog-whistled, exaggerated claims of success and echoed Trump talking points to excited audience…
Addressing Democratic “radicals”, whom he accused of wanting to destroy the nuclear American family, he boomed: “Stay the hell away from our kids.”
But it was also a speech aimed squarely at rallying the Maga faithful: attacking transgender rights, extolling the importance of American manufacturing and religious freedom, and accusing Democrats of “doubling down on the crazy”.
Vance showed a penchant, too, for Trump’s baseless statements, claiming that some Democrats in New York “cheered on” the slaughter of Jewish people on 7 October, and suggesting that a “new generation” of Democrats seek to defund the police and “abolish the border”.
“What is it that drives this new generation of radical Democrats? It’s not new policies. They’ll say the same stuff: defund the police, abolish the border, the green new scam. We’ve heard all this stuff before,” Vance said. He then tried out a new line: “I think that what’s new about them is what motivates them is a new type of hardcore hatred.”…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/10/jd-vance-republican-midterm-convention
Ted Cruz’s GOP Convention Speech Interrupted By Chilling Call From The Crowd | HuffPost Latest News
Cruz mentioned New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico. And after each name, an unidentified member of the crowd could be heard shouting: “He should be shot.”…
‘Cheat like hell’, Trump has Republicans chant at convention before midterms
The president demonised Democrats in an attempt to wangle votes in midterms despite backlash over Iran war…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/11/donald-trump-republican-midterm-convention
Friday, September 11, 2026
Adult citizens in US will receive $5,000 if Republicans win midterms, Trump pledges – amounting to over a trillion dollars
President makes offer that would cost US over $1tn and asks voters to ‘pretend that I’m on the ballot’ despite being deeply unpopular among electorate…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/09/trump-republican-convention-speech-midterm-elections
Trump, Vance to close out Republican convention Thursday night : NPR
Quick math puts the bill for this proposed "dividend" at more than $1 trillion. Plus, it's illegal to pay or be paid to influence voting.
House Democrats in Dallas Thursday to counter program the convention quickly attacked the announcement.
Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., called the president a "known liar."
"The dividend is not happening," Garcia added. "[Trump] promised a dividend on tariffs. That didn't happen. He promised a dividend on DOGE. That didn't happen. He promised some strange, new dividend from Air Force One, what six months ago? That never happened."…
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/10/nx-s1-5963880/trump-republican-midterm-convention-vance
Vance doesn't want to talk 2028. Republicans are chanting ‘48.’ - POLITICO
Vance, continuing a theme that President Donald Trump laid out Wednesday, told the attendees that 2026 presented a stark choice between commonsense Republicans and the “crazy people” on the left, according to the people, who were granted anonymity to discuss the closed-door event...
Thursday, September 10, 2026
Republicans in fight to hold on to majority look to ‘midterm convention’ to overcome Trump unpopularity
The convention represents perhaps Republicans’ final opportunity to make a large-scale, high profile pitch to Americans. Joe Gruters, the chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), which is organizing the convention, said the program will attempt to demonstrate how Republicans are “lowering costs, securing our border, making our communities safer, and putting American workers and families first”...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/09/republicans-midterm-convention-trump
Thursday, July 2, 2026
‘Historic Event’: Trump announces Republican midterm convention
“It has never been done before, and will be a truly Historic Event,” he said, promising the convention would feature “Great Entertainment”…
The convention comes as Republicans seek to defy the historical pattern of the president’s party losing seats in the midterms. Should Democrats win control of either chamber – or both – they would gain the ability to block much of Trump’s legislative agenda and launch investigations into his administration during the final years of his second term…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/30/trump-republican-convention-midterms-dallas
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