President Donald Trump delivered his closing message for the midterm elections Monday at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, making his final appeal only hours before polls were set to open across the country.
Trump used the address to lay out what he considers the stakes of the election while highlighting [1] the record his administration has built during its first 20 months. His message presented voters with a sharp choice between the Republican agenda and the candidates offered by Democrats.
“The Democrat Party has nominated the most extreme and dangerous slate of candidates in American history. These are the most dangerous candidates ever put up,” Trump said.
He also warned about the backgrounds and ideological commitments of candidates running under the Democrat banner. The president described the slate in stark terms, leaving little room for the usual election season spin.
“There’s never been anything like what we’re seeing: jihadists and Muslim Brotherhood members and people that nobody can even believe what we’re looking at, and all committed to the same radical agenda,” he added.
Trump said that agenda includes “open borders, raising your taxes by trillions of dollars, taking away your guns, transgender mutilalization of your children, abolishing oil and natural gas, sending energy costs skyrocketing, and opening the floodgates to millions of migrants from all over the world, hoping to get them to be able to vote.”
The president framed the election as a fight over whether the country would preserve what generations of Americans built or allow failed political ideologies to tear it apart. The choice, as Trump presented it, was hardly subtle.
“We fought for 250 years to make [America] great. We’re not going to let it be torn down by a bunch of people that have failed everywhere they’ve been, because the ideologies that you’re talking about, various ideologies, they’ve always failed every single time,” he went on to add.
Trump then shifted from warnings about Democrats to a rundown of his administration’s accomplishments. He touted progress at the southern border, tax cuts, exports, the poverty rate, “25 trillion in wealth created,” and the country’s standing as the world’s leading oil producer.
Border security received particular attention during the remarks. Trump said the country has gone 17 months without a person entering illegally through the southern border, contrasting that period with the situation before his administration’s actions.
“We’ve gone 17 months without one person entering our country illegally from the southern border. Before that, it was 25 million came in, and they came in from mental institutions and prisons, and they were drug dealers, very sick people in many ways,” the president said.
Trump also highlighted provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill. The legislation included no taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security for certain seniors, giving the president another economic achievement to place before voters.
The president pointed to the poverty rate, personal income, employment, and American exports as signs of national strength. He described each of those measures as reaching historic levels under his administration.
“The poverty rate is at an all-time record low, meaning good, best poverty rate we’ve had ever in history. Best personal incomes we’ve had ever in history. American exports are at an all-time high, and more people are working today than at any point in the history of our country,” he said.
Energy production was another central piece of Trump’s closing argument. He said the United States now occupies the top position among oil and natural gas suppliers worldwide.
“And the United States is now by far the largest supplier of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world,” Trump continued.
With the policy case made, Trump turned to the electoral math and the coalition that powered his previous victory. He said Republicans can win convincingly if MAGA voters who participate in presidential elections also show up for the midterms.
“…If the people that voted for me and voted in the last election, where we had such a great victory, if they go out and vote, just a good portion of them, we will win in a landslide,” he said.
The address ultimately served as Trump’s final call for his supporters to carry their presidential election enthusiasm into the midterm contest. With voting hours away, he made clear that turnout from the MAGA coalition could determine whether Republicans secure the sweeping victory he predicted.