Donald Trump delivered his first campaign-like rally since his election complaints and unfounded claims to fraud since leaving the White House, urging his followers to help Republicans regain the majority in the U.S. Congress.
The demonstration on Saturday in Ohio signals a return to the kind of unstructured mass meetings that were important for the retention of support from its foundation.
It supported Max Miller, a former White House assistant who challenged the Republican Representative Anthony Gonzalez for his seat in Congress. Gonzalez was one of 10 Members of the Republican House who voted against Trump in the wake of his election loss of Democrat Joe Biden in his attempt to launch the attack against the US Capital on 6 January.
Trump has committed to supporting individuals in the next Republican primary schools who oppose the 10 legislators.
In the mid-term elections in 2022, the Democratic Party will have the narrow majority of both chambers of the Congress, and history favors the possibilities of Republicans winning seats in those fights.
Trump told thousands of joyful fans at Ohio's Lorain County Fairgrounds. "We will win the House back, we will get the Senate back, and we will take America back, so we will do it quickly."
Nine of the ten Republicans in the House who voted for the prosecution of Trump have so far gathered major opponents. According to syracuse.com, the former President promised support to anyone who moves on to challenge the other contender, Representative John Katko of New York.
Senator Lisa Murkowski, the only one of the seven Republican Senators who voted to convict Trump in his January public prosecutors trial that is about to be re-elected in 2022, is supported by a challenger.
'Centenary scam'
The Ohio event in Wellington was the first of three public events, followed by a tour along the US-Mexican border on June 30th and a rally in Sarasota, Florida on July 3rd, about 64 kilometers southwest of Cleveland.
Whilst Trump commended Miller as an "unbelievable patriot" and a "great person" who "loved Ohio's people," his 90-minute address fixed on the 2020 election he insists he won, despite the fact that top state and local election officials, his very own Attorney General and several judges, some of whom he named, have stated that there is little evidence that the mass voting fraud he alleges has taken plague
"This was the century's fraud and this was the century's crime," says Trump. "Council elections in 2020 were tricked. In a landslide, we won that election."
"Trump won" and "4 more years! 4 additional years!" The audience sang. But his political future was not clearly mentioned by the former president.
However, he at one point teased the crowd by referring to another stab at the White House.
"It might be a third time we must win it. It can be," he said.
The result of several legal difficulties could impact if Trump runs again.
On Thursday the Manhattan prosecutors told his company that he could soon face criminal accusation resulting from a large-scale investigation into the business of the former president. The New York Times stated that the accusations might be lodged against the Trump Organisation days after quoting persons familiar with the case.
Trump described the investigations as just a "witch hunt" to politically hurt him.
Immigration
The former president also used the Ohio event to call Biden a "catastrophe" and to emphasize the increasing number of immigrants crossing the U.S. south border — a matter which has brought Republicans together.
"To our country you've had millions of people arriving. We don't know who they are. Just the contrary is what Joe Biden does," Trump remarked.
"Joe Biden is before our very eyes ruining our nation," he added.
The rallies of Trump have played an important part in his political life since he started a campaign in 2016 and his supporters in Ohio have expressed their optimism that he would utilize such events to unify the party behind similar Congressional candidates.
Jessica Dicken, a 30-year-old homestay mom from South-East Ohio, added that "trump might be a voice for a more conservative movement here in Ohio and beyond Ohio." "The continuation of these rallies is vitally crucial."
She lost Trump, said Chris Laskowski, 55 who resides in Medina, Ohio.
"He is still our president, I think they have robbed him from the election."
The Republican Party has adopted Trump's repeated fraudulent election fraud accusations, with 53% of Republican voters believing Trump won in the Reuters/Ipsy poll in 2020. The poll concluded that his loss was attributed to illicit voting.
Republican strategy artist Matt Dole claimed Trump and his supporters enjoyed popular goodwill during the rally in Ohio. Some of the nominees who are now seeking support for Trump in the past have made misleading remarks.
"These are convenience marriages," Dole, who lives in Ohio, remarked. "Donald Trump uses these chances to keep his name there and inspire the base."
