Trump Says He May Become 'Mr. Veto' If Democrats Win the Midterm Elections
In a New York Post interview clip aired Sunday, President Donald Trump said a Democratic Congress would send him bills to veto until it came to make a deal — a rare acknowledgment, on election eve, that his party may lose.
President Donald Trump said he may have to become “Mr. Veto” if Democrats win a majority in Tuesday's midterm elections, according to a clip of a New York Post interview aired Sunday on Fox News and reported by Bloomberg, in the account read by the desk this cycle.
“They'll be sending stuff up, you veto it,” Trump said in the preview clip, aired on Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures ahead of the interview's release Monday. “Eventually, after a month or two of getting all vetoed — you know, it's just waste — they come over and make a deal.” He added: “Hopefully we don't have to worry about that.” The account describes the remark as a rare acknowledgment by the president that his party may lose the elections, even as he closed the weekend campaigning in states his party would normally hold comfortably, amid voter anxiety over the cost of living and the war in Iran.
The polls behind the remark point the same way with different confidence: most show Democrats well positioned to pick up the House seats they need for control, and growing more confident about the Senate, with seven races polling within a narrow margin. Republican strategists say their private data paints a more competitive Senate picture, with many key races still toss-ups or within reach, and in his speeches the president has held to his line that the country has the “greatest economy in history” and that polls do not count Republican votes correctly. In another clip from the same interview, asked about running again, Trump said he would “love to run again if I had the chance, but the language is very exacting” — a reference to the 22nd Amendment, which forbids a president from being elected to more than two terms.
