President Trump used his Port Huron rally on Sunday to press the argument at the centre of his midterm case: a party that cannot win American voters on its ideas will change the electorate instead. Democrats, he told the crowd, are unpopular — and when a party is unpopular, the citizen's vote stops counting, because mass migration is used to dilute it.
He carried the warning to its sharpest point on immigration from the Muslim world, saying a Democratic victory would open the door to hordes of jihadists entering the country until Americans could not even celebrate Christmas, and he pointed to Somalia as maybe the worst country in the world — his standing example of what failed states export when migration is not controlled. That is the context of the lines: not an attack on a faith, but his case that uncontrolled migration changes a country's politics, its safety and its culture faster than its own voters ever voted for.
The rally, staged in a border city days before the midterms, tied the argument together: secure borders and citizen votes on one side, open doors and a transformed electorate on the other. It is the case Trump is asking Michigan to settle on November 3.
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