In a particularly offensive tone in front of his Republican camp gathered in Dallas, Texas, American Vice President JD Vance described, Thursday, September 10, the Democrats as a “party of hate” and urged voters to “send them to pasture” during the mid-term legislative elections on November 3.
Two years before the next race for the White House, JD Vance tried to assert his presidential stature in a “prime time” speech. “Democrats are the party that hates America and the people who built it.”
“Primary after primary, we have seen the few reasonable Democrats lose to extremists who openly hate our nation,” he said, accusing the other major American party of becoming radicalized, referring to the recent series of successes obtained by its left wing.
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JD Vance wanted to address the undecided in particular, while the projections are unfavorable to the Republicans less than two months before the election.
These anticipate that the Democrats will seize the majority in the House of Representatives, completely renewed, with the Senate looking highly contested, according to the Decision Desk HQ model. A shift which would seriously restrict Donald Trump’s room for maneuver for the last two years of his mandate.
“What I ask you is to become aware of the contrast with these radicals and to recognize the achievements of these last eighteen months,” he pleaded.
“Simply protect”
“Don’t hand the country over to a bunch of crazy people just because you don’t agree with a measure here or there,” insisted the vice-president. “We must send them to pasture!”, he asserted.
JD Vance drew some of the loudest cheers when he shouted at a man who he said was waving a Mexican flag: “Well, my friend, if you love Mexico that much, go back, I’ll pay for your plane ticket!”
Before that, the former senator from Ohio spoke at length about family values and mentioned Charlie Kirk, the young ultraconservative influencer with whom he was close, shot dead a year ago to the day in the middle of a meeting on an American campus.
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“I don’t disagree with anything he said. He just wants to protect our families. Protect Americans. Protect our country. That’s his job,” said Cindy Phillips, 63, from Houston, some 400 km away.
Back on stage after his vice-president, Donald Trump assured that “the Democrats were getting nervous”.
The evening before, the octogenarian president had given a speech lasting nearly two hours, continuing his bet to personalize the issue of the mid-term elections. “I ask you to act as if I was on the ballot. Just one more time,” he insisted.
He even went so far as to make the “promise” of a $5,000 “dividend” to every American adult if the Republicans managed to maintain the majority in both chambers – without explaining how such a potentially very expensive initiative would be financed.
Crowds on the rise
Faced with an audience won over to his cause, Donald Trump has already raised, before JD Vance, the threat that a victory for the Democratic opposition would represent, in his eyes, by vowing to “defeat communism in America”.
If the Democrats were to win, “I will block all their bad things for two years,” he said Thursday on Fox News.
The organizers, opening the second day, claimed 20,000 spectators the day before – close to the maximum capacity of the large hall of the Mavericks basketball team. However, the highest stands remained largely unoccupied throughout the Texas rally.
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The attendance – and the atmosphere – nevertheless increased significantly on Thursday.
In Dallas, fervent Trumpists want to believe in a mobilization on the sole name of Donald Trump, despite his anemic popularity rating, below 35% in certain polls, and remain convinced that victory is within reach of the Republicans.
“He does not appear physically on the ballot, but his program does, that is what people must consider. If he does not obtain a majority in Congress, his program will not be able to be implemented,” explains Wilma May, an African-American lawyer in her sixties, “very optimistic” despite the projections.
The Republicans had never held a convention before the midterm elections. The format is usually reserved, for them as for Democrats, for presidential election years.
With AFP
