Trump launches near-daily campaign sprint, but questions remain about whether he’ll help or hurt GOP – Spectrum News

Trump launches near-daily campaign sprint, but questions remain about whether he’ll help or hurt GOP  Spectrum News

The president has promised to spend the next month on the road holding campaign rallies to energize Republican voters. WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is kicking off a campaign sprint, vowing to be on the road almost daily through Election Day. But with his approval ratings low, gas prices high and an unpopular war dragging on, there are questions over whether he can help Republicans keep control of Congress — or will end up hurting them. Trump said Wednesday he is taking matters into his own hands. “We’re not getting the word out. I mean, we’re just not getting it — that’s why,” Trump said. “ … I thought I was finished campaigning.” He has promised to spend the next month on the road holding campaign rallies to energize Republican voters.

Where the president is starting off is unusual: deep-red Oklahoma on Thursday and deep-red Alabama on Friday, before heading to two battlegrounds — Ohio on Saturday and Nebraska on Monday. “I’m going because you have to thank these states that are with you a thousand percent,” Trump said Thursday. Republicans are banking on the president being a turnout machine for their base. “He’s going to go around to all the states where there are toss-up elections that he won in the presidential election, and he can turn out the