Trumps Rhetoric Triggers Voter Turnout
For this time and age voting could not be even more important. When so many feel as if they are being left out, voting is a way to be heard. The article that I read is about the massive midterm turnout for voters. While the votes are still being tallied there was an estimated 113 million votes cast by Americans during this midterm. It is roughly 30 million more than the midterms in 2014. Among this massive increase in voter turnout there was a surge of Democrats elected into the House of Representatives while the Republicans had a surge to maintain control of the Senate.
With this surge in voter turnout one has to look at the reasons to why it was such a historic turnout for the midterm. Up for grabs was a shift from a Republican controlled congress to a Democratic controlled House and a Republican Senate. So why is the voter turnout roughly 30 million more then the previous midterm?
That has in part to do with our president. His speeches have inspired millions more voters to come out and vote, to say there peace through voting. This is seen in Ohio where there was a 42 percent increase in votes compared to 2014 midterm. Florida up 33 percent, Texas and astounding 92 percent increase. This is due to the wildness of our president. In the article the Associated Press says, “President Donald Trump has inspired outrage, love, fear and every emotion in between.” Donald Trumps rhetoric as unconventional as it is, has managed to do one positive thing among the American populace and that its millions more people are standing up to be heard.
