Midterms: Obama & Trump continue to campaign

Monday is the last day of campaigning before the US midterms.

With a high turnout expected, the pressure is on as the Republicans hope to tighten control over the Senate.

Donald Trump and Barack Obama campaigned on Sunday, rallying voters.

Speaking to a crowd in Georgia on Sunday, Trump said: “You put Stacey in there and you are going to get Georgia turn into Venezuela. Stacey Abrams wants to turn your wonderful state into a giant sanctuary city for criminal aliens, putting innocent Georgia families at the mercy of hardened criminals and predators.”

Obama spoke in Indiana over the weekend and whilst he did not mention Trump by name, suggested that Trump has no issues on playing on people’s fears.

“What kind of politics do we want. What we have not seen at least in my memory is where, right now, you’ve got politicians blatantly, repeatedly, baldly, shamelessly lying. Just making up stuff.”

“Two weeks before the election they are telling us that the single greatest threat to America is a bunch of poor, impoverished, broken, hungry refugees 1,000 miles away.”

“Sometimes these tactics of scaring people and making stuff up work,” he warned.

“There have got to be consequences when people don’t tell the truth. When words stop meaning anything, when people can just lie with abandon, democracy can’t work. Nothing works… Society doesn’t work unless there are consequences.”

Around 34 million Americans have already voted in the midterms. The figure in 2014 was just 27.5 million.

In October, singer Taylor Swift broke her political silence and revealed plans to vote for the Democrats in the midterms.

“I always have and always will cast my vote based on which candidate will protect and fight for the human rights I believe we all deserve in this country. I believe in the fight for LGBTQ rights, and that any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender is WRONG. I believe that the systemic racism we still see in this country towards people of color is terrifying, sickening and prevalent,” wrote the singer on social media.

“As much as I have in the past and would like to continue voting for women in office, I cannot support Marsha Blackburn,” she added in the post.

Polls are indicating that Democrats have a significant lead.

The first polls will close at 23:00 GMT (18:00 EST) on Tuesday.

 

 

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