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Donald Trump said on Monday (November 5) he wished he had taken a softer tone in his first two years as U.S. President, even as he continued to bash individual Democrats and fan fears over immigration while campaigning on the eve of congressional elections.
Asked in an interview with Sinclair Broadcasting, one of the largest U.S. television station operators, if there was anything he regretted about his first two years in office, Trump said, “I would say tone.”
Trump made a series of media appearances and campaign rallies in Ohio, Indiana and Missouri the day before elections that will determine whether his Republican party retains control of Congress.
Trump told Sinclair Broadcasting he was not happy with the vitriol in current U.S. political discourse, but blamed it on the election season.
In Indiana, Trump said Democrats encourage “millions of illegal aliens to break our laws, violate our borders and overrun our country.”
Opinion polls and election forecasters favor Democrats to pick up the minimum of 23 seats they need on Tuesday to capture a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, which would enable them to stymie Trump’s legislative agenda and investigate his administration.
Republicans are favored to retain their slight majority in the U.S. Senate, currently at two seats, which would let them retain the power to approve U.S. Supreme Court and other judicial nominations on straight party-line votes.
But 64 of the 435 House races remain competitive, according to an analysis of the three main nonpartisan U.S. forecasters, and control of the Senate is likely to come down to a half dozen close contests in Arizona, Nevada, Missouri, North Dakota, Indiana and Florida.
Democrats also are threatening to recapture governor’s offices in several battleground states such as Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, a potential help for the party in those states in the 2020 presidential race.
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