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Obama and Trump Trade Criticism at Georgia and Ohio Rallies Before US Midterms
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Obama in Georgia and Trump in Ohio held rival rallies five days before the midterms. They exchanged criticism on Iran, tariffs, inflation and the economy.
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Rival rallies in Georgia and Ohio
Former US President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump held rival campaign rallies in Georgia and Ohio on Wednesday, trading criticism over the war in Iran, tariffs and the economy just five days before midterm elections.
Obama told supporters in Atlanta, Georgia that “The current president chose to make a series of bad decisions, the most important of which was to start an unnecessary war that nobody asked for and nobody voted for,” as he argued the Iran war had made Americans less safe.
Trump called for Alaska Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola to be prosecuted, accusing her of voter fraud after the New York Times reported her campaign helped recruit Dan J. Sullivan to run against GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan.
Trump told a raucous crowd in Chillicothe, Ohio, “If you can get out to vote,” adding, “we’re going to have a tremendous victory.”
Cheesecake Factory barbs and investigations
Obama attacked Trump’s White House renovations and said the president was more focused on a joke than rising prices, telling supporters, “They mobilized a whole government response to that joke.” Obama also said, “The White House even called the secretary of the treasury,” as he argued the administration’s response to his crack about a Cheesecake Factory was misplaced.
Trump defended his White House decor in Ohio, saying, “The White House, I think, is the number one symbol of our country, and we can’t have a White House with broken windows, with broken stone that hasn’t been painted in 30 years,” while campaigning in Chillicothe. The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit preemptively contesting the outcome of Alaska’s Senate race if Mary Peltola won, and Trump told reporters as he boarded Air Force One that Peltola could face prosecution.
Midterms hinge on Senate and House
The Guardian said the congressional races could shift the balance of power in Washington with less than a week to go before congressional races that could shift the balance of power in Washington.
The Guardian reported that “Thirty-five of the 100 Senate seats and all 435 seats in the House of Representatives are being contested next Tuesday,” as both parties made closing appeals in pivotal states.
AP described Obama campaigning in suburban Atlanta with Keisha Lance Bottoms and Sen. Jon Ossoff, while Trump attempted to energize his base in Ohio at the same time.
The sources also tied the closing stretch to court fights, with a federal judge declining to order California election officials to segregate ballots from people the Trump administration claimed were non-citizens, and with the ruling from US district judge David Carter stating, “This case is about the right of every American citizen to vote in a free and fair election.”