He got his baseball cap out of the closet as a declaration of war – “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) – ex-US President Donald Trump made his first campaign appearance for the Republican Party in the new election year in Florence, Arizona congressional elections on. His topic: successors Joe Biden fail domestically – keywords inflation, crime, illegal migration and corona infections, and abroad, keyword Afghanistan. Trump: “Our country will be destroyed.”
The rally was his first appearance in front of a large crowd since October. Trump has so far left open whether he would like to run again in the 2024 presidential election. But:
Donald Trump, Ex-US-Präsident:
“This is the year we will take back the House of Representatives. We will take back the Senate. And we’re going to take back America, it’s so important, and in 2024 we’re going to take back the White House.”
Trump lashed out at the Democratic Party. “Today’s radical Democratic Party is fueled by a mean and vicious spirit of left-wing fascism. This is no longer just socialism.”
In front of thousands of adoring supporters, Trump again insisted that he actually won the 2020 US presidential election.
And spread conspiracy theories about the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 – with the suspicion that authorities such as the FBI federal police could have been involved.
Almost no respirators or other precautions against Covid-19 could be seen in the crowd. Nationwide, more than 750,000 people test positive for the disease every day.
ELECTION YEAR
The choice to House of Representatives of the United States 2022 on November 8, 2022 decides on the composition of the lower chamber of the legislative congress of the United States. The elections will take place in the middle of Joe Biden’s first term of office, which is why one also speaks of a “midterm election”. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives are up for election. The deputies are elected by direct vote in their congressional district for 2 years, i.e. for the 118th United States Congress. The Democrats have held a majority in the House of Representatives since the 2018 election to the United States House of Representatives. In 2020, the Republicans took 12 seats from them, but the Democrats still have a majority of 222 to 213 seats.
Im senate In the case of the current tie, the President of the Senate, the Democrat and USD Vice President Kamala Harris decides with their votes – this is why the Democrats have been the majority party since January 20, 2021.
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