LATROBE, PENNSYLVANIA (Dagbladet): Pennsylvania became one of the most important swing states in the US midterm elections on Tuesday. Both President Joe Biden and former Barack Obama were in the state on Saturday. At the same time, former President Donald Trump flew on his plane for one of his public meetings at an airport just outside Pittsburgh.
The Senate election is between famed TV Republican and physician Mehmet Oz and stroke Democrat John Fetterman. The result could determine whether the Democrats will be able to maintain the slim majority they have in the Senate today. On the measurements, they are now very uniform.
– They had a little public meeting here and no one showed up. See how many have appeared here. If we want to save this country, you have to vote for Republicans on Tuesday, says Trump after stepping down the flight stairs to the unbridled applause of thousands in attendance.
As usual, he repeated the lie that the elections were stolen from him in 2020. He also talked about, among other things, tighter border control, crime and how he believes the Democrats are destroying the United States. .
– We want Oz to take power. This could be the vote that will decide whether or not we get a country in the next two years, Trump says.
Trump also joked about his plans to run for president again, as he did in one Friday in Iowa. The American media are now speculating whether Trump will announce his candidacy as early as the week after the mid-term elections.
FAN: Thousands of Trump supporters showed up in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
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– We will take back the beautiful house, says Trump on the re-conquest of the White House in the presidential election of 2024, in the speech.
A little later comes another tip:
– In a short time you will be very, very happy. You will be surprised how little time it will take. I really want to do it now, but we need to focus on Dr. Oz right now, says Trump
Shortly before the Trump event, Biden and Obama took the stage to thunderous applause alongside Fetterman and candidate for governor Josh Shapiro in Philadelphia.
– Democracy is literally on the ballot. This is a defining moment for the country and we must all speak with one voice, says Biden.
CAMPAIGN: Donald Trump flew to Latrobe, Pennsylvania to campaign for Republican Senate candidate Mehmet Oz.
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Talk show queen
Oz really became famous when Oprah Winfrey started using him in her programs. Now the talk show queen is asking voters in Pennsylvania to support the rival candidate.
– If I lived in Pennsylvania, I would have already voted for John Fetterman for many reasons, Oprah said this week, according to Washington Post.
– Simply dangerous
Fetterman ran a brutal election campaign after suffering a stroke this spring and has not yet fully recovered. He became very visible, among other things, in a televised debate with Oz in which he struggled to find the right words.
– Sometimes I miss the right words, but here are two I can say, that Dr. Oz can’t say: Trump lost. It’s literally the two years I want to hear from Dr. Oz’s mouth when he campaigns with Trump today, writes Fetterman on Twitter.
Among other things, Oz has been accused of being a wealthy elitist who doesn’t even have a proper connection with Pennsylvania.
“The man”
Trump supporters who spent Saturday night on a remote airstrip with the former president believe Trump will still make sure to send Oz to Washington DC.
– Trump means a lot to Dr. Oz’s campaign here in Pennsylvania. He is “the man,” Louanne Fenick tells Dagbladet.
She is also convinced that Trump will run for president again.
– What do you think of Oz’s opponent?
– Fetterman shouldn’t be asking. He’s not healthy and he has no chance, says Fenick.
Cassie Gray believes there could be widespread election fraud in the state in this election. She says her local church of hers showed the movie “2000 Mules” this week.
The film, which contains conspiracy theories, has become very popular with Trump supporters, who believe that the election was stolen from him in 2020. In the film, it is claimed that people in the 2020 presidential election were paid to go to the polling stations and fill them with fake ballots.
Fear of armed people at the polls
– Very worried
– I’m a big fan of the candidates running here in Pennsylvania and I’m very worried about the election. I think everyone expects there will be election fraud, Gray tells Dagbladet.
– Do you think election fraud is the only way Dr. Oz can lose?
– It depends on the model. If we look at 2020, there was really a big suspicion about what was going on, says Gray.
At the same time, he believes it is very important for Oz to gain Trump’s support.
Brutal election campaign: – Almost dead
– Right now, Donald Trump is the Republican Party. People look to him for leadership, says Gray.
He believes the US is in the midst of some sort of civil war between Trump supporters and the Democrats.
– We are in the midst of a strange and unusual war. It is fought through social media and the boycott. People have their lives ruined. People are losing their livelihoods. So the consequences are as serious as if there was a real war, says Gray
– What do you think of President Biden and the work he does?
– Haha. Do you really want to know? I don’t think anyone who truly loves this country can answer this question without swearing.
– Most popular
Tim Sloan runs his own pro-Trump podcast.
– There is nothing better than going to a Trump rally because you know where everyone is politically, Tim Sloan tells Dagbladet and lists a long series of public meetings of the former president he has been to.
It erupted in a “cascade of swear words”
On Monday he will go to another event with Trump in Ohio.
– I hear people talking about all the skepticism towards Dr. Oz. But at the end of the day, it’s two people. And what do you think of Fetterman. Do you think he helped him that Obama came to Pittsburgh today? No not at all. But of course he helps Oz when Trump arrives and says to vote for him. He is the most popular person in the world.
