Trump Says He’s Unsure the U.S. ‘Would Even Exist’ Now if He Lost in 2024

President Donald Trump suggested that the U.S. would not exist if former Vice President Kamala Harris had been elected in 2024.

Trump delivered the keynote address on Wednesday night at a rare Republican midterm convention in Dallas. The event has been billed by some as “Trumpapalooza” after the president ordered the convention be held. The Republican National Committee, which is hosting the two-day event, had urged Republican candidates who planned to attend to donate $25,000 to the party.

Trump’s approval rating is deeply underwater in virtually every poll, but he has nevertheless insisted on making November’s midterm elections a referendum on him. Many high-profile Republican incumbents – including ones in swing states and swing districts – are skipping the convention.

In his address, Trump insisted that those Republicans “can win every one of those races” and added, “I’m gonna go to every one of those states for congressmen and for senators. I’m gonna do that.”

After some applause, Trump said the midterms will hinge on “common sense” and said that if he had lost the election in 2024, the U.S. may not exist:

“And we’re gonna have rallies just like this,” he said. “We’re gonna have big arenas loaded up with people so the senators, they’re great people, so many, just great people. Their policies are, you know, they’re common sense. I heard so many of the wonderful politicians that spoke. I watched a lot of them, and they talked about common sense. It’s really about common sense more than anything else. It’s not about stupid policies that led us down the drain. We were going down the drain. If we hadn’t won the last election, I’m not sure that our country right now would even exist. It was going so bad.”

Watch above via Fox News.

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