MARIETTA, Ga. — Facing what is likely to be a difficult midterm election in Georgia and across the country, President Donald Trump touted his economic platform during a visit to Wheeler High School in Cobb County Wednesday.
Several Republican candidates for statewide office had speaking slots, giving the official White House event a distinctly partisan tint.
To an audience of roughly 3,000 people, the president promoted his newly launched child investment accounts and cast his opponents as “communists” who were threatening to bankrupt the country. But in a wide-ranging 75-minute speech, he also criticized members of the U.S. Senate for failing to pass his signature election bill, known as the SAVE America Act.
The bill would require voters to show proof of citizenship, such as a birth certificate or passport, before being able to cast a vote.
But Trump has repeatedly demanded that lawmakers enact the bill, which stalled in the Senate last month largely over concerns that it would create chaos ahead of the November midterms. He refused to sign a landmark, bipartisan housing bill last month over lawmakers’ failure to pass the act and centered last Thursday’s primetime address on the bill.
Trump’s appearance at the public high school had the tone of a campaign rally, with a wide array of downballot Republican candidates appearing onstage to pitch themselves to Georgia voters. He also castigated U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, a Georgia Democrat running for reelection, for voting against many of Trump’s policy priorities.
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