US President Donald Trump has warned his voter base that he expects he will be impeached if the Republicans lose control of Congress in November’s midterm elections.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a rally in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Trump urged Republicans to turn out, saying they would “lose everything” if Democrats took control of Congress.<\/p>\n
“I’m going to be impeached. They’re going to impeach me. They have no idea why,” Trump said.<\/p>\n
Trump is the only US president to have been impeached twice, although he was acquitted by the Senate on both occasions.<\/p>\n
Trump said a Democratic victory would threaten his administration’s policies, including tax cuts and immigration measures.<\/p>\n
“If we lose, you’re going to lose your border, you’re going to lose your tax cuts, you’re going to lose everything that we’ve done,” he told supporters.<\/p>\n
He also claimed taxes would rise, wages would fall and businesses would leave the US under a Democratic-controlled Congress.<\/p>\n
Democrats are widely expected to make gains in the House of Representatives in November, while control of the Senate is considered more competitive.<\/p>\n
Trump was campaigning in South Carolina for Darline Graham, who was appointed to the Senate in July following the death of her brother, Republican senator Lindsey Graham.<\/p>\n
He urged his supporters to treat the midterms as if he were personally on the ballot, saying his political influence was at stake.<\/p>\n
“What I really want you to do is pretend, please, that I’m on the ballot. Just come and vote,” Trump said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump has warned his voter base that he expects he will be impeached if the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[65,42,43,64,40,38,41,39,66],"class_list":["post-577431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-north-america","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}