What role will Trump play in U.S. midterms? Here’s all we know
Global News
``Trump is unique in the role he has tried to play in shaping the voter choices in this year's elections,'' said a professor of political science at the University of Georgia.
He’s the Kevin Bacon of modern American politics, a familiar shadow that seems to loom over or lurk behind virtually every major storyline playing out on the U.S. campaign trail and beyond.
But forget six degrees of separation — with Donald Trump, it’s often only a couple.
Abortion controversy in Georgia? Trump and Herschel Walker are longtime friends. Kooky Republican hopefuls in key swing states? Chances are, they were backed by Trump. Fears of political motives at the Supreme Court? Trump nominated three of the justices.
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“Trump is unique in the role he has tried to play in shaping the voter choices in this year’s elections,” said Charles Bullock, a professor of political science at the University of Georgia.
“He likes to be in the spotlight; he loves that. And then adding to that incentive for him is the desire for redemption or revenge, with his hope that he can reclaim the presidency that he claims he never lost.”
Trump’s never-apologize, admit-nothing style was on clear display this week in Georgia, where Walker, a fabled college and NFL running back with no prior political experience, is seeking to wrest a key Senate seat away from Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock.
Walker, a self-proclaimed opponent of abortion, adamantly denies media reports that he paid an ex-girlfriend who underwent the procedure in 2009. Walker insists he does not know the woman; the Daily Beast website, which broke the original story, says she’s the mother of one of his four kids.
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