At his meeting in Ohio, Trump denounced immigration and called on Republicans to vote

Donald Trump found the pulpit to hold the meeting. At his first campaign rally since leaving the White House, the former US president criticized the Biden administration’s immigration policies on Saturday, June 26, and urged his supporters to help Republicans regain a majority in Congress.

While Donald Trump has delivered speeches at Republican events since his electoral defeat of Democratic President Joe Biden, this rally in the state he won in the 2020 presidential election marks a return to the kind of gatherings that have been essential in maintaining its electoral support. stationed.

Donald Trump stepped down in the wake of his supporters’ deadly January 6 attack on the US Capitol, shortly after giving a speech repeating his false claims that his electoral defeat was the result of fraud. He has survived a second impeachment and has retained broad influence over the Republican Party, leaving open the question of whether he will run for re-election in 2024.

On Saturday, in front of a crowd of thousands of ardent supporters, Donald Trump offered some of his usual grievances, criticizing the US election and focusing in particular on the growing number of immigrants entering the US through their southern border.

“You have millions of people entering our country. We have no idea who they are. Joe Biden is doing the exact opposite of what we did.”, did he say.

The Biden administration has called Donald Trump’s immigration policies inhumane.

‘We will take back America’

While the former president has remained vague about his policy plans, he has spoken forcefully for his party to regain control of the House and Senate.

“We’ll take over the House of Representatives, we’ll take over the Senate, we’ll take over America, and we’ll do it soon.”, did he say.

A very narrow majority of Democrats in both houses of Congress will be at stake in the 2022 midterm elections, and history favors Republicans’ chances of winning seats in those elections.

In Ohio, Donald Trump campaigned for former White House aide Max Miller, who is running against House Republican Anthony Gonzalez, one of ten House Republicans who voted in favor of Donald Trump’s impeachment after the January 6 attack. The second.

Donald Trump has promised to crack down on these 10 Republicans. He also backed one of Senator Lisa Murkowski’s opponents, who is the only one of seven Republican senators who voted to convict him during her impeachment trial in January, and is scheduled to be re-elected in 2022.

The Wellington Rally, about 40 miles southwest of Cleveland, was the first of three public appearances planned by Donald Trump. They will be followed by a trip to the US-Mexico border with Texas Governor Greg Abbott on June 30, and a rally in Sarasota, Florida, on July 3. His supporters said they hope Donald Trump will use the events to help unite the party behind like-minded congressional candidates.