Ohio, Iowa, Florida, Pennsylvania: Donald Trump announced no fewer than four meetings on Wednesday to support Republican candidates in the US midterm elections in the final hours of the campaign.
Surrounded by investigations, the ex-president threw himself headlong into the campaign trail for this election during which Americans renewed all 435 seats in the US House of Representatives and a third of the Senate.
Two years after the next presidential election, that election, scheduled for November 8, was turned into a referendum on the incumbent of the White House, Joe Biden.
But this election also serves as a life-size test for the political future of the Republican billionaire, who is openly courting a run in 2024.
Concretely, the battle for control of Congress is taking place in a few key states — the same ones that were already at stake in the 2020 presidential election, which Donald Trump will visit in late October and early November.
Just hours before the polls open, the former businessman will be in the hotly contested state of Ohio, where his dowry, J.D. Vance, opposes Democrat-elect Tim Ryan.
Democratic President Joe Biden alternates between meetings with the working class and meetings with wealthy sympathizers to fill the coffers of his party, which is at least hoping to maintain control of the Senate.
