President Donald Trump has effectively migrated his supporters to vote for Republicans, and will turn out voters unlike former President Barack Obama, according to Republican National Committee spokeswoman Cassie Smedile on Election Day.
"What we've seen in these states where Donald Trump has held rallies, he's turning out his supporters, and those supporters now become GOP supporters," Smedile told Hill.TV's "Rising" on Tuesday morning. "We're seeing it."
If the RNC operation worked, President Trump has energized a potential "silent majority" to stem the historical midterm blue wave, because turnout and an energized voter base always determines midterm elections.
"We are going to see that as a boost of turnout on our side," Smedile concluded. "That's the reason behind it. That's the Trump effect."
Obama came up short in his midterm elections because he could not pull it off. His voters were not hitched to the Democratic Party as much as they were to him, she said.
"Remember when Barack Obama was president, everybody would come out to vote in 2012 and 2008, but when it came to the midterms, they stayed home because they were Barack Obama supporters," Smedile said. "Donald Trump is saying, 'Not so. If you like me, and like my agenda, we've got to have good Republican majorities in Congress to push that through.'"
Like 2016, it comes down to the rally crowds, and President Trump has been stumping for Republicans across the country.
"They receive a text message the morning after a rally, and it's an unprecedented interaction of those who actually go onto vote.gop, and register to vote or request their ballot, and that's a difference that Barack Obama cannot claim," she said.
Democrats need to add just 23 seats to regain the House majority from Republicans, who had been widely projected to keep the Senate.
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