Ahead of Election Day, Trump sets the stage for potential Republican losses

In an election-eve speech at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, President Donald Trump said Republicans “gave this a very strong shot” while acknowledging that historically, the president’s party “doesn’t win the midterms.”

“This is the last day before the midterm elections — the most important midterm, I believe, in our lifetime,” Trump said Monday in his final major speech before the midterm elections Tuesday. “The Democrat Party has nominated the most extreme and dangerous slate of candidates in American history. These are the most dangerous candidates ever put up.”

Although a White House official had said in advance that the speech would represent Trump’s “closing message” before voters make their final trips to the polls, Trump spent most of his remarks speaking about the Reflecting Pool.

Trump announced the Reflecting Pool will reopen after months of repairs and talked about other renovation projects he has ordered around Washington, a key focus and fascination of his second term.

Speaking about the election, he touted what he considered economic wins, saying that “personal incomes are the highest in history” and that “the poverty rate is at an all-time record low.”

But, he said, “it all doesn’t matter if we’re going to be…

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