President Trump warned at his rally in Pennsylvania on Wednesday night that if his party loses in November’s midterm elections, the “radical Democrat mob” will take away everything he has achieved since his election, while encouraging crime and socialism.
It was an echo of something he’s been saying a lot lately, including at rallies in Iowa and Kansas in recent days and on Twitter — a line that Republicans have been quick to seize upon as they try to sustain a newly-enthused GOP base in the wake of the divisive confirmation battle for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
“You don’t hand matches to an arsonist, and you don’t give power to an angry left-wing mob. Democrats have become too EXTREME and TOO DANGEROUS to govern,” Trump tweeted Saturday. “Republicans believe in the rule of law – not the rule of the mob. VOTE REPUBLICAN!”
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