President Donald Trump has largely left what little regard he had for fact behind in the final days before the midterms, averaging about 35 to 45 dubious or incorrect claims per campaign rally, according to a Sunday Washington Post report.
He’s covered many fabricated allegations against Democrats, including that they want to eliminate both the U.S.’ borders and Medicare. He also continues to promise a “middle class tax cut,” though no such legislation exists.
“This freneticism at the end . . . him ratcheting up to a new level of histrionics and fear, the question is, ‘Is there a point of diminishing returns?’ ” former Obama strategist David Axelrod told the Washington Post. “Do these tactics at once offend some people but also appear so fundamentally contrived that even some who are inclined to vote for Republicans say, you lost me here?”
“His gamble is that this will work,” he continued. “Certainly the veracity doesn’t bother him, and the optics don’t bother him. The only thing that would bother him is losing.”
