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US citizens will receive $5,000 if Republicans win midterms, Trump claims
Vice-president JD Vance appeared to partially row back on Donald Trump's outlandish claims that every adult citizen in the US would receive $5,000 if the Republicans retain the House and Senate in the midterm elections.
"If the Republicans win, you win with us, and you get $5,000," Trump told a roaring crowd, during a nearly two-hour long speech at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas in which he also urged voters to "pretend that I'm on the ballot".
But Vance, speaking after the president, suggested the so-called dividend payments would not go to the wealthy and that it could be paid for by US tariff revenues - though the suggested payment dwarfs what the US has taken in through the protectionist measures.
Congress would need to approve or otherwise acquiesce to the payment. The sum would far exceed US tariff revenues even before the Supreme Court tossed much of the president's tariff program last year.
The White House has yet to release details on Trump's announcement.
Surrounded by supporters waving American flag placards, Trump claimed, without evidence, that his second term had been "the most successful two years, financially and every other way, in the history of the presidency", but devoted much of his speech to fearmongering about what would happen should Democrats win the House or the Senate for the final two years of his presidency.
"There is a crazy little sick cloud over our country," Trump said. "We will defeat communism in America."
The president and Republicans are gambling that throwing a midterm convention - the first the GOP has ever held - can buoy the party, which is predicted to lose control of the House. Yet, Trump's deep unpopularity among Americans - his approval rating is hovering at about 38% - meant many Republican candidates running in competitive races skipped the two-day confab entirely.
In a nearly two-hour speech, Donald Trump capped off his first night remarks at the GOP midterm convention by pleading with Republicans to " pretend that I'm running". The president centered himself in the battle to control Congress, and acknowledged that candidates are more successful when he is on the ballot. He offered an ominous outlook if Republicans fail to retain power.
Throughout his remarks, Trump also tried to campaign on behalf of Republicans in competitive midterm races. While he made fun of Ken Paxton's clothing choices and the way he speaks, he praised the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas as "the single greatest attorney general" in the state's history, while also branding his opponent James Talarico as a "disaster".
Earlier, Democratic senator John Fetterman made a surprise virtual appearance at the Republican midterm convention, delivering a video address supporting Dave McCormick, a Republican senator in Pennsylvania . Fetterman, who has increasingly broken with his party since his election in 2022, said in the video that he would always reject "extremes and socialism", repeating an oft-used Republican critique of the Democratic party's increasingly popular left wing.
Meanwhile, several Republicans who are facing tough races have chosen not to attend the convention in Dallas. This include Susan Collins, the five-term incumbent senator from Maine, and Dan Sullivan - the Republican senator from Alaska who is facing a tough contest against former Democratic congresswoman Mary Peltola.
Another interesting result from yesterday's Democratic primaries in Rhode Island: David Morales, a democratic socialist candidate, unseated sitting Providence mayor Brett Smiley.
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