Voters in America display two extremely disappointing characteristics that we are likely to see reenacted here in a few days.
One, not everyone is registered to vote, and too many of those who could vote legally simply don’t bother. It’s sadly striking that America invested so much blood and treasure freeing the people of Iraq from the arbitrary terror of Saddam Hussein.
When they got the chance to vote, Iraqis did, despite pervasive threats of death from Iran’s roaming militia surrogates. Many were, in fact, executed for exercising their newfound right.
Yet, in our own most recent election in 2024, only 73.6 percent of the 174 million voting-age population were registered to vote. And barely 65 percent of them actually did. Meaning, one out of three couldn’t be bothered to participate, even absent any threats of death if they did.
Two, we seem to have sadly short memories. We’re just months from escaping the four painfully long and dangerous years of an incompetent, incontinent Democrat president with its inflation, lies, and corruption.
Yet media polls show enough voters now say they intend to vote in a few days to hand control of at least part of Congress to that dysfunctional, leaderless party that offers absolutely nothing except “Trump bad.”
All because of some temporary inconvenience like the price of gas, which, if we’re honest, unlike media, is actually lower now than under the previous conniving crowd.
Seriously, think about that a sec.
We now have the world’s strongest military protecting us. We no longer have countless tons of illegal drugs and thousands of illegal immigrants, including murderous gang members, streaming into the country every day to kill and rape innocent Americans and suffocate our social welfare system and local schools.
We have a two-layer border wall with sophisticated electronic monitoring going up mile after mile every day after every day.
The Iranian religious regime that’s been killing thousands of Americans for 47 years is no longer imminently capable of producing and delivering a nuclear weapon to vaporize millions.
Our nation’s energy independence, which was crippled by Democrat Joe Biden his first day in 2021, is back in operation, protecting national security and producing more oil and natural gas than ever before.
We no longer have an incoherent 79-year-old president, who disappeared for days at a time and uttered such foggy wisdoms as “half the women in my administration are women” and “28 out of every high school students are Latino.”
Instead, we have an 80-year-old president who sleeps five or six hours a night, endured four years of hoaxes, draining lawfare and three assassination attempts, and remains the most accessible chief executive in the nation’s history.
And media is trying to convince us that U.S. voters on Nov. 3 are going to turn back to the power-hungry folks who gave us Joe “Sharp as a Tack” Biden and tried to convince us that Kamala “Dumb as a Rock” Harris was a viable commander in chief and leader of the free world.
Trump says controversial things to stir the pot. But unlike her, he’s never said: “It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day.”
Polls by the mainstream media, which are often less than reliable, tell us daily that President Trump has his lowest job approval yet. The RealClearPolitics average finds 38.8 percent approve while 60.4 disapprove.
Trump says he believes the GOP will win in nine days.
No president’s name is ever on a midterm ballot. But the results are usually taken as a halfway verdict on a chief executive’s term. In all but one of the midterms this century, an incumbent president’s party has lost congressional seats, sometimes many.
In 2010, voters threw out 63 House Democrats, seven Democrat senators, six Democrat governors, and gave Republicans control of 20 new state legislative chambers.
According to media polls, the GOP’s slim control of Congress is in danger: 218 to 214 in the House and 53-47 in the Senate.
That would set up an angry gridlock for the next two years. Excited Democrats have promised retribution on Trump supporters with widespread investigations and probes if they take the House, and more performative impeachment attempts are virtually certain.
When Trump took a day off last year, it was so striking that media speculated he was gravely ill or possibly dead.
As usual, a determined Trump is putting it all on the line. Here's his recent midterm work schedule going before the American public. It's strikingly different from his predecessor:
- Monday rally in Ohio.
- Tuesday rally in Alaska.
- Wednesday two rallies, one in Arizona, then another up in Montana.
- Thursday two televised town halls.
- Friday Georgia rally.
- Saturday another in Kentucky.
- This past week Monday rally in Kansas.
- Tuesday same in North Carolina.
- Wednesday South Carolina.
- Thursday Iowa.
- Friday a Florida rally.
- Saturday another Georgia rally.
- Sunday Michigan.
- This coming week starts with two Tuesday stops in Texas.
Each packed rally involves long lines to get in, remarks by local officials and candidates, and a Trump speech of at least an hour, rarely scripted. He hails local Republicans, recounts his administration’s many accomplishments, mocks opponents and media. The more cheers, the more mocks.
Speaking of Trump accomplishments, for some reason they don’t seem to get much news coverage, even though Nov. 3 is allegedly a referendum on him.
Widespread early voting is well underway. So, for the forgetful, here are a few reminders of what voters are judging:
The infiltration of illegal aliens was the top issue of 2024. It was halted.
The Southern border was wide open under Biden and border czar Harris. Thousands streamed across daily for four years, an estimated total well in excess of 10 million, raising the total number of illegals to around 14 million.
The Biden administration helped many reach inland cities to avoid detection.
Since taking office, the Trump administration has totaled more than 2.6 million deportations, including 714,000 officially removed and 1.9 million voluntary departures.
In August alone, ICE arrested 51,000 individuals, including hundreds of gang members, despite a lack of cooperation from so-called sanctuary cities. As of midsummer, it held about 66,000 in detention facilities, including convicted rapists, murderers, arsonists, and pedophiles admitted under open borders.
During the last fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 290 miles of new border barriers were built. Contracts for another 255 miles have been awarded. Completion is planned for 2028 along the 1,956-mile border with Mexico.
Thirty-six miles of waterborne barriers are also in place in the Rio Grande River, with another 500 miles under construction or planning, much of it financed by a $46 billion appropriation in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
On his first day in office, Biden intentionally crippled the nation’s energy independence constructed during the first Trump term.
In the 21 months of his second term, Trump’s executive orders, loosened regulations, and construction incentives have enabled the U.S. to become the world’s largest oil producer, topping 13.6 million barrels of oil and more than 110 billion cubic feet of natural gas daily.
Trump has been criticized for the high price of food, which actually grew inflated during Biden’s $5 trillion spend-athon that launched inflation that exceeded 9 percent one month. Inflation this past August was 3.4 percent.
And he’s also been targeted for energy costs.
However, under the Biden administration, the highest average price of gas was more than $5. Today, the average national price of Regular is $4.22, a tribute to increased production and the outlook for even more.
Barack Obama has claimed, falsely, that his two terms were free of scandal. Sympathetic media failed to press him on the Solyndra scandal, the IRS scandal targeting conservative organizations, or the Benghazi massacre during which four Americans were killed in Libya while Obama disappeared for the entire 16-hour episode and media sought no explanation.
Do we want more of that?
Or how about Biden’s screw-up of the Afghan troop withdrawal that saw 13 American troops killed for his indecision. Biden called the ignominious exit “a triumph.” Remember all the grilling and mocking of the Democrat for saying that about the national mortification?
No, you don’t. There was none.
Now, however, a Republican commander in chief, with Israel, launched hostilities against Iran that have dragged on. Every preceding president dodged the imperative responsibility of stopping Iran’s ambitions to develop and deliver weapons of mass destruction that would have meant an Armageddon in the near future.
Obama even handed Iran billions in cash, which the mullahs used to export more regional terror operations and continue weapons research underground.
Not Trump. Are we to forget that courage and foresight? And go after him because Iran won’t quit?
Now, too many voters may skip over all these enduring Trump accomplishments and focus on transitory issues and high prices that long predate his return.
Perhaps they’ll forget the more than six years of recent chaos and fraud within the Democrat Party, its mounting acceptance of genuine socialists with their extreme policies that have never worked anywhere, and the party’s endorsement of Muslim candidates with ties to the violent Muslim Brotherhood.
Such radical Islam is an evil political movement cloaked in religion to mask its dangers to our tolerant culture until it can seize control.
And if for the next two years, Washington falls into another paralyzing gridlock with more useless government shutdowns, political lawfare, and Trump impeachment show trials, obviously that will all be the fault of this infernal president, who won’t give up, and not the lazy or forgetful midterm voters.
