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A Trump rally goes like this: an airport, a large area. Long queues at security. Early access. Infinite support act, aging pop, a lot classic rock, cheerleader. Hordes of dedicated sellers. A crowd of people, a great crowd, a very great crowd. Landing of the plane of the caudillo. Appearance at the lectern.

Long story short, same meaning: America is on the brink. Biden is a communist. The adversaries are traitors. The people want Trump, who won the election two years ago and was cheated in the election. The press lies and is “the enemy of the people”. Death penalty for drug dealers along the lines of colleague Xi in China. Short process.

Following the same pattern, Donald Trump, who was voted out of office two years ago, last appeared on Monday night intermediate-To elect. The scene was Dayton (population 800,000) in southern Ohio. The recipient was JD Vance, Republican Senate candidate, but the subject was Donald Trump.

Trump’s Near Announcement

Will he run again in two years? All day long, political lackeys had whispered that the caudillo would let the cat out of the bag in Dayton, but there was only one, “almost.” Sixes without extra number. As usual, Trump tickled the crowd, but in the end he just said, “On November 15, I’m going to make a very big announcement.”

Trump is indeed in a class of his own. When I arrived at the airport at half past two in the afternoon, half an hour before the start of the program, the parking lots were already full. Inside, thousands stand with their feet in their stomachs, some starting at six in the morning. Food trucks fall within the safety parameter.

“Fuck Joe and the Hoe”

The first thing you see in the parking lot is a bum selling you the Make America Great Again hat (argument: “We’re gathering for a soup kitchen”). Second Encounter is a seller of black t-shirts. Print on the back: «Fuck Joe and the Hoe». Print on the front: Biden Sucks, Kamala Swallows. Before security, a long line of stalls selling other Trump memorabilia. Atmosphere of the fair.

Many sellers are black. Inside you have to look for the non-white skin color. The audience is white, all age groups. Some with children. There are the terrifying types with National Rifle Association slogans on their big bellies, but a Trump rally is also a family event. Grandmothers wear the coolest slogans on their chests: «Per life, per weapon, per god». After all, as we pass the “Fuck Joe” man, one elderly lady says to the other, “My mother would have killed me if I was wearing something like that.”

At the drinks stand (no alcohol, not even beer) we queue for a long time. I ask my front woman why she loves Trump. “Because he’s different,” she says, “he’s not a politician.” And why is the back woman here? “My husband and I are both entrepreneurs,” says Amy, who is in her mid-30s. “We have no sympathy for those who don’t work and just put out their hand, and we believe that you should keep the fruits of your labor and not give everything to the state. When you have a business, you realize that right now there are many things go wrong.” Doesn’t Amy struggle with Trump’s personality? ‘You mean his lack of decency? Oh but. But he has helped many people. he has a good heart. You can’t just look at the surface, you have to look deeper, into the heart of a person.”

On stage, the Georgia pie eater, Marjorie Taylor Greene, is talking. After a Republican election victory, she would put everything in an impeachment procedure (deposition) move what doesn’t want to: “We can remove the tax officials, we can remove the mayor and we will remove Biden if we win.” Applause.

A Trump and Vaccination Pendant

The man next to me introduces himself as Robert Weeks, hot rodder. He converts old cars into modern street bombers, from the outside the same as before, inside with the most modern engines, brakes, steering. Robert points to his jacket: “I was in 2016” hot rodder of the year.” The winning item was a 1944 Business Ford Coupe. Robert shows a photo. Why is he for Trump? “I have long believed that the country was better off with a businessman than with a politician.” His friend Jim Jordan, a wealthy businessman, hired more people during the Trump years, raised wages “and gave all employees two weeks of paid leave.”

His business also prospered, says Robert, but had to close two months ago: “I couldn’t find any more workers and my landlord gave me the workshop because he said I couldn’t do it anymore.” Now he works at home alone. Currently on his father’s old car, who died of Covid, before the vaccination. Is Robert vaccinated? “Why, sure. I’m going to the fourth booster next week.” Robert does not know what to do with the opponents of vaccination. He is grateful that the vaccines have been developed so quickly, “a credit to Trump”.

The agile Senate candidate

JD Vance, the Senate candidate, speaks at seven. The American dream, threatened by the Biden administration, can only be defended with the Republicans. crime. The broken border. The Mexican drug cartels are flooding the country with fentanyl. “Tomorrow there is a referendum on Joe Biden.” Vance is a polished speaker and a studied one. Nobody takes the audience. A cold fish.

JD Vance hails from neighboring Middletown. In 2016, he wrote Hillbilly Elegy, a great book about what it was like growing up in Middletown in the 1970s and seeing the steel mill stretch and the workers losing their feet. But things are a little different in Middletown. McKinley Street, where JD grew up, is not a run-down slum, but a row of simple, small houses, some with porch,all clean, nowhere seen the mishmash of old cars and torn patio furniture where America is really poor. For example, in the Appalachians, where the hillbillies his home that JD describes.

McKinley Street doesn’t have an election poster in the front yard, not even JD. In general, there is a lack of election advertising almost everywhere. No wonder, says Terry Stevens at the large pawn shop in the historic district. “JD is not very popular here.” How so? “He left as fast as he could, went to Yale — aren’t they all going to Yale? — and to California to make a lot of money.” And JD is a defector who initially didn’t have a good thread about Donald Trump, but turned right when he ran for the US Senate. “People don’t like that.”

In fact, JD didn’t like candidate Trump. In “Hillbilly Elegy” he writes that Trump is saying the right thing when he calls for tariff protection against China and the rebuilding of American industry, but as president he is not the right person. He later criticized him as a dangerous autocrat, allegedly even calling him “America’s Hitler”. That changed when JD Vance decided to become a politician. He crawled to the cross and now presents himself as a Trumpist tous azimuth.

“JD Kisses My Ass”

He got Trumps for that recommendation, the open support, but also his contempt. In September, Trump appeared at a campaign rally for Vance and said, “JD kisses my ass, he wants my support so badly.” JD was there. That was in September. On Monday night, Trump almost put him on an equal footing, often interweaving his name in his speech (“Isn’t that true, JD” – “we have to do it, JD”) and complimenting him as an independent with his heart in the right place: “JD and I say the same thing, but we say it in different ways.”

When JD is done, Robert says, “Well, let’s see. Let’s hope he does what he says.” Doubt? “He’s definitely better than Tim Ryan.” Tim Ryan is the Democratic Senate candidate. He’s doing something other Democrats don’t dare to do. He openly distances himself from President Biden, the unpopular old man in the White House. Ryan demands Biden not be active in two years and Democratic Party look for a younger successor (probably too) per dome: He himself ran for office in 2020, but gave up early).

Ryan says what other Democrats don’t say. He focuses on the economy, calls for Ohio’s reindustrialization with new technologies, calls for deviance from free trade policies and protective tariffs against the Chinese, and for government investment. He is level with Vance in the polls, even though Ohio is a “red” Republican state. Vance and Trump call him a “left-wing extremist”. He steals the Trump issues, but voted 100 percent with Biden.

“The Country Needs One” chill pill»

JD Vance only talks for half an hour. Then we wait for Trump. And wait and wait. The caudillo is late. “At least the music is good,” said Ben, a 20-year-old from Flint, Michigan, who recently moved to Dayton. Ben lives with his sister and her husband. Musicians who wouldn’t even have been dead at a Trump event roar from the speakers. Springsteen, CCNR, the dead Tom Petty. But also Phil Collins and Elvis.

Ben is here because he is conservative. “I come from a conservative family.” Trump sits there. When he reigned, there was no inflation, says Ben. When asked if he believes in 2020 electoral fraud, Ben says, “I don’t know. I know Trump was way ahead of Election Night when I went to bed, and when I woke up, everything was different. That hurts me.” think something fishy was”. But like I said, you never know.

Ben is not a fanatic. He believes that both Biden and Trump are too old and that a staff change on both sides would be good as the divisions become unbearable. “The Country Needs One” chill pill.” Does Ben know people of the other political persuasion? “Yes. My sister and her husband». The sister he’s staying with? “Yes. We don’t talk about politics.” Does he know of people who have broken off their friendship because of politics? “Not here. But in 2016, I was in high school in Tennessee. There were Clinton supporters and Trump supporters who stopped speaking to each other.”