The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has presented this Tuesday's legislative elections as a turning point for the Republican Party, by maintaining that, if the Democrats manage control of both chambers and subsequently the Presidency in 2028, the country will be "finished".
"We are going to see what happens, but it is as Elon (Musk) says: if we lose the House of Representatives, the Senate and the Presidency, this country is finished," Trump has assured in an interview with the program of the conservative Australian columnist Miranda Devine.
The most recent polls grant the Democrats a sufficient advantage to take the majority in the House of Representatives and point to the fact that they could also prevail in the Senate, although this last scenario is considered more complex due to the existence of several key states still in dispute. Trump, who has already exhausted the maximum number of terms allowed by the Constitution, will not be able to run in the 2028 presidential election and, for now, no clear replacement can be seen in the Republican leadership.
Trump has also insisted that, regardless of the result, he will unhesitatingly resort to his veto power to block any legislative initiative that Democrats promote in case they manage to get the majority in the lower house.
"I am going to become Mr. Veto," the president announced. "They will have to talk with me and there will have to be negotiation, as has always happened," he added.
In line with his usual discourse, the American president has once again cast doubt on the cleanliness of the electoral process, after the courts have rejected several of his lawsuits to halt the count, among them the one filed in Alaska. In this case, his team argued that the Republican Dan Sullivan and the independent Daniel J. Sullivan have practically identical names and that voters could get confused.
"No," Trump cut off in response to the question of whether he expected honest elections. "The two even have the same face," the American president has assured. "The Democrats must have found a double or something and then they go around saying they don't know anything about this matter," he has considered.