President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the midterm results will be “better than you think” for Republicans and asserted that the economy is performing well.
Speaking to “Fox and Friends” in a morning appearance, Trump said “inflation is solved” and suggested that oil prices have been coming down.
Later in the interview, Trump touted his record on taxes, including provisions to eliminate taxes on overtime and tips, as well as his economic policies including tariffs to try to bring manufacturing back to the United States.
He also touted his administration’s immigration enforcement, including efforts to deport criminal illegal immigrants, and efforts to lower the national crime rate.
“I think the results are going to be better than you think,” he said, referring to Republicans’ chances in the Tuesday elections.
Meanwhile, on Monday evening, Trump called on voters to cast their ballots as if he were on the ballot.
“I’m just asking everybody to pretend that I’m on the ballot,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday night.
He also urged GOP-likely voters to turn out in the midterms, which will determine whether Republicans or Democrats control either the House of Representatives, Senate, or both chambers of Congress. A number of gubernatorial races are being held.
Trump said key provisions such as no taxes on tips or overtime payments might be at risk if Democrats control Congress.
“All of that is going to be wiped out,” he said, adding that “if our people vote, we win in a landslide.”
If Democrats take over Congress, the party would have more power to thwart Trump’s agenda during his final two years in office and set up a new political landscape ahead of the 2028 presidential election. All eyes are on Senate contests in Alaska, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Ohio, and Texas. House battlegrounds are scattered across the country.
Aside from Trump, Vice President JD Vance, who has been flagged as a possible presidential candidate in 2028, suggested on Monday that voters should cast their ballots for Republicans, because the administration and GOP lawmakers “took money away from the fraudsters and the bureaucrats and we put it back in” the hands of the public.
For more than a month, both Trump and Vance have held numerous campaign-style rallies across the country, also promising monetary incentives to voters if they move to keep Republicans in control of Congress. Trump announced in September that, if the GOP comes out on top, people would receive a $5,000 payment he described as a dividend sourced from U.S. economic growth and tariffs.
The White House has sent out $500 rebate payments for people it said were overcharged for Affordable Care Act health insurance premiums and also one-time, $90 payments to 20 million Medicare beneficiaries.
In an October appearance in Kansas, Trump said he would support a measure to allow the sale of E-15 gasoline year-round if Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) is reelected.
Democrats have sought to use the economy in their campaign, arguing that the U.S.–Iran war launched in February has driven up prices and trying to link Republican candidates with the conflict.
“Together, House Democrats will fight to end this reckless war of choice in Iran. And drive down the high cost of living in the United States,” wrote House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) in an X post on Monday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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