President Donald Trump wrapped up the Republican Midterm Convention by asking his supporters to pledge allegiance to him.
‘Please raise right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can’t even breathe,’ Trump requested of the crowd.
‘That I will go out with my family, my friends, I’ll do it any way — I don’t care if I’m registered or not, I’m going to try to cheat like hell like they do,’ Trump added during his remarks.
Joking with the attendees, Trump also probed,’You know what happens if you don’t vote right?,’ before revealing the punch line: ‘you go to hell.’
Trump’s speech on Thursday lasted under half an hour, a far cry from the nearly two-hour long address he gave on Wednesday night.
President Donald Trump speaks on stage on the second day of the 2026 Republican National Convention at the American Airlines Center on September 10, 2026 in Dallas, Texas
Several candidates in the country’s most competitive races this fall skipped the main stage in Dallas, among them Maine’s Republican Senator Susan Collins, Congresswoman Ashley Hinson who is running for the US Senate in Iowa, and John E Sununu, the Republican nominee trying to flip New Hampshire’s Senate seat red.
Most prognosticators expect Democrats to win back the US House of Representatives, but the Senate will be tougher with battleground races in Maine, Ohio, Michigan and Alaska set to determine control.
US Senate nominees including Ken Paxton of Texas, Michael Whatley of North Carolina, and Mike Collins of Georgia all spoke, as did incumbent Ohio Senator Jon Husted.
Trump’s cabinet secretaries including Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Brooke Rollins, Scott Bessent, Dr Mehmet Oz, and even Attorney General Todd Blanche were on the agenda as well.
The two-day event also included a tribute to conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated while speaking on the campus of Utah Valley University last September. Trump paid homage to Kirk, and his wife Erika during his remarks on Wednesday, calling his murder a ‘shock,’ as well as the people who ‘made an excuse for it or cheered for it.’
The 25th anniversary of 9/11, taking place on Friday, was also commemorated during Thursday’s programming at the convention.
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