In the Republican party will Trump a candidate in the by-elections, ultimately, just an afterthought – even those that imitate the President. Michael Knigge reports from Virginia.
The Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, just three hours ‘ drive from Washington, D.C.: a Few days before the midterm elections enters Corey Stewart, the space of the government building of Augusta County, accompanied by chants of “USA, USA”. From the pulpit, flanked by election campaign posters with his name and the Slogan “Support Trump,” the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate to a group of around 100 people, exclusively white, middle and advanced age.
Everything about the immigration
In his election campaign, Stewart relies on the same main topic as President, Donald Trump: illegal immigration. And no matter what Stewart refers to the Trump Slogan “We must build the wall” – on immigration without documents, human trafficking, gang violence, the opiate epidemic, or to low wages for workers, the audience is on his side, as often as he repeated it.
Just like Trump, Stewart accused the Democrats, to be in the way, which would reduce the number of immigrants without documents. He attacked the liberal billionaire George Soros for financing the so-called left protesters. He praises the controversial Supreme Court justice, and Brett Kavanaugh. He castigates the Democrats for the alleged attempt to exploit the shooting in a synagogue and is calling for more armed security services in places such as schools and houses of worship.
The “Mini-Trump”
Only four years after Donald Trump entered the political stage, he has captured the Republican party, and made himself their center, the turns of the Rest of the “Grand Old Party” (the “Grand Old party”). The rally of Senate candidate Stewart in rural Virginia is typical of the Trump-centrism in this election campaign.
Martha Waltz would never have chosen Hillary Clinton
In surveys, Stewart is behind the candidate of the Democratic party. But although Stewart’s had done earlier ambitions to be an office in the government of the state in internal party primaries, trump’s rise also gave Stewart a boost. This is particularly noteworthy in a Swing state like Virginia, in the traditionally moderate Democrats or Republicans with broad appeal to be elected.
However, currently a new group of Republicans – because of their Attempts, the Original mimic, often known as a “Mini-trump” – in Virginia and other Parts of the country, the face of the party. According to the latest survey conducted by the opinion research Institute Gallup, 89 percent of Republicans Trumps support Act are just two percentage points less than its all-time high.
Trump an easy decision to choose
“We could all do with less Tweets, we could all get by with less raw comments, but I think he is a man who is willing to listen and adapt,” says Martha Waltz, a retired educator from Augusta County, who visited Stewart’s event. “I was initially totally against Trump, but when it came to a choice between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the decision was easy for me.”
Jesse Hancock desires that Trump’s “America great again” makes
Many, who have come together this evening, will not find everything, well, what Trump says or does. But you are willing to ignore the fact, because they are convinced that he will bring the country back on the right path.
“The Democrats are a Mob,” says Jesse Hancock, a meek-acting electrical engineer, retired. “You have to fight against authority. That doesn’t work in this country.” He admits that Trump “is a kind of controversial figure”, but he believes that Trump will make the United States the great Nation that she had been once, when Hancock, now 83 years old, still a child. “I think the country was founded on Christian Beliefs, and in the course of time we have turned away from us.”
“Judeo-Christian principles”
What is commonly referred to as Christian values, is also a main reason why Sharon Griffin, a retired educator, Trump and the Republicans supported. “We want sensible immigration, not this madness at the border. And we are for religious freedom,” she says. “Under Obama, it went really downhill, and there was hostility towards religions, especially to Christianity. And that’s not right. Our country was founded on principles of the Judeo-Christian world and it would be the end of our country, if we would give up.”
The Religion is among the Trump better than Obama, Sharon Griffin
If Stewart, who is originally from the state of Minnesota in the Mid-West is not represented in the minds of the visitors of his election campaign, event prominent, this has a simple reason: He has himself represented as a local extension of Trump. This is a strategy that the President himself endorses. Recently, he said, Republican voters, they should do so, as it would be to have a choice.
“I think Corey and other Republicans that I know in our area, to support trump’s efforts, the country to recover,” says Jesse Hancock. “Terrifying would be if the majorities in the Congress would move,” says Sharon Griffin. “Then Trump can do nothing more. And the truth is that he has done things like a Bulldozer. This is incredible.”