Trump's Closing Argument for the Midterms Is Dark and Angry
With just two weeks to go, the president is resorting to the mixture of immigration fearmongering and dishonesty that got him elected.
There was a moment, some 45 minutes into President Trump’s rally in Houston on Monday night, when it seemed like he wasn’t really going anywhere. The president was running through some of his standard talking points, but as with many of his more recent speeches, there wasn’t a spark.
And then suddenly there was. Trump launched into the darkest, angriest section of his speech, a furious tirade at Democrats, laced with falsehoods. He ran through several areas—health care, entitlements, supposed voter fraud—but the climax was immigration.
“The crisis on our border right now as we speak is the sole result of Democrat laws and activist Democrat
