In an election-eve speech at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, President Donald Trump said that Republicans “gave this a very strong shot,” while acknowledging that historically, the president’s party “doesn’t win the midterms.”
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party → say → 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 on Tuesday.
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Trump → believe → Tuesday
“The Democrat Party has nominated the most extreme and dangerous slate of candidates in American history.
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Party → nominate → history
These are the most dangerous candidates ever put up.”
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These → put → ?
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, the president spent most of his remarks speaking about the Reflecting Pool.
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president → say → Pool
Trump jokes about renaming Reflecting Pool after himself
Trump announced the Reflecting Pool will reopen after months of repairs, and talked about other renovation projects he has ordered around Washington, D.C., a key focus and fascination of his second term.
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he → joke → term
Speaking about the election, the president touted what he considered economic wins, saying “personal incomes are the highest in history” and “the poverty rate is at an all-time record low.”
But, he said, “it all doesn’t matter if we’re going to be foolish and let people that hate our country win an election.”
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that → speak → election
“If the people that voted for me and voted in the last election ... just a good portion of them, we will win in a landslide,” he continued.
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he → vote → landslide
“Now that doesn’t happen because usually, whoever the sitting president is, Republican or Democrat, good or bad, good president, great president, bad — for some reason, the sitting president doesn’t win the midterms, but we gave this a very strong shot.”
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we → happen → shot
Trump derided Democratic candidates and falsely said that some were jihadists or members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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some → deride → Brotherhood
He said they are “all committed to the same radical agenda: open borders, raising your taxes by trillions of dollars, taking away your guns, transgender mutilation of your children, abolishing oil and natural gas, sending energy costs skyrocketing, and opening the floodgates to millions of migrants from all over the world, hoping to get them to be able to vote.
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them → say → world
The president referred to Alaska’s Senate race and last week’s report by the New York Times that said Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign and other Democrats recruited a candidate — Dan J. Sullivan — to run for the Senate with the same name as the incumbent senator.
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campaign → refer → senator
Peltola has denied being aware of the reported scheme.
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Peltola → deny → scheme
“They got somebody named Dan Sullivan to run against Dan Sullivan,” Trump said.
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Trump → get → Sullivan
“It’s corrupt.
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It → ’ → ?
It’s really a fraud, fraudulent election.”
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It → ’ → ?
Trump’s speech comes a day after he closed out a 28-rally swing through the U.S. to campaign for Republican candidates on Sunday.
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he → come → Sunday
The president traveled for 25 days in the final month of the campaign, visiting 19 states.
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president → travel → states
He held his final rallies outside of Washington on Sunday, with one in Kansas and the other in Iowa, both states with competitive Senate races.
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He → hold → races
Trump is slated to participate in several tele-rallies for the midterms from Washington, D.C., on Monday.
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Trump → slat → Monday
On the final day of the 2018 midterm election cycle, by contrast, Trump held in-person rallies in three states.
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Trump → hold → states
“We’ve got some big races tomorrow,” Trump said during his remarks.
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Trump → get → remarks
“I guess some of the voting has already gone on, but tomorrow’s Election Day, more traditional.”
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tomorrow → guess → voting
Asked Sunday why he chose to speak at the Reflecting Pool, Trump told reporters, “Just to show how beautiful it is.
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it → ask → reporters
It’s been finished.
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It → finish → ?
It was vandalized badly.
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It → vandalize → ?
We have cameras all over the place now for the vandals.”
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We → have → vandals
On Monday, he stood next to a poster that said, “Back, and more beautiful than ever.”
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that → stand → poster
“We’re booming like we’ve never boomed before,” he said.
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he → boom → ?
“We’ve cleaned hundreds of sites of graffiti, fixed over 2,300 lighting fixtures in Washington, D.C., cleaned and renovated over 83 statues and fountains and monuments, removed hundreds of squalid homeless encampments.”
In addition to the Reflecting Pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the World War II Memorial downtown, Trump highlighted other construction projects he launched, including the White House ballroom, a White House helipad, a new golf course in the city and a triumphal arch, among other projects.
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he → clean → projects
Trump appeared to joke at one point that the Reflecting Pool would be named after himself.
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Pool → appear → himself
The Reflecting Pool has been closed since July after additional renovations had to be made after the bottom’s coating peeled and algae formed, tinting the water green.
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algae → close → water
The National Park Service announced recently that it was extending the closure of the pool and the areas surrounding it until Nov. 20.
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it → announce → Nov.
After the initial renovation process began in June and it first reopened to the public, Trump accused multiple people of “destroying” the pool.
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Trump → begin → pool
The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington charged former Olympic canoeist David Hearn with destruction of property during a June 19 visit.
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office → charge → visit
In late July, the U.S. attorney’s office, led by Jeanine Pirro, dropped its case against Hearn, citing information it had obtained that undermined “the evidentiary basis for the indictment” against him.
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that → lead → him
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