President Donald Trump used a Saturday rally in Ohio to deliver a blunt closing argument for Republican midterm turnout, promising a decisive victory while aiming a profane jab at the press and pollsters. Speaking at an event north of Dayton, the president told the crowd that the path to a GOP win runs through the ballot box, and that the payoff would be aimed squarely at his critics in the media.
“You gotta — it’s very simple, you got to get out and vote. You got to get out. You got to vote for these guys,” Trump said, according to Breitbart News, which covered the rally. Then, gesturing toward the press section at the back of the venue, he added that if Republicans do turn out, “We’re gonna win big and we’re going to shove it up their ass.”
The line drew a warm reception from the crowd, per Breitbart’s account, and fits a pattern the president has leaned into as the midterms approach: framing the election as a contest not just against Democratic candidates but against the polls and coverage that have predicted Republican losses.
A Month-Long Blitz
Saturday’s rally was part of what Breitbart described as a month-long campaign schedule the president has promised to undertake on behalf of Republican candidates across the country — an effort aimed at boosting turnout for incumbents and challengers alike in House and Senate races.
Trump told the audience that the pollsters and the press were in for a surprise, a message apparently intended to counter the dominant narrative in national political coverage that his party is on track for a difficult November.
That narrative is not without data behind it. As The Hill reported in its coverage of the president’s remarks, Republicans are confronting a challenging political landscape as the midterms draw closer. Trump’s approval rating has slipped, the war in Iran has now passed the seven-month mark, Democrats have been outperforming Republicans in recent polling, and voters have consistently named the economy as a source of concern.
The Numbers Behind the Spin
According to Decision Desk HQ, the president’s approval rating stood at 38.5 percent on Sunday morning, while his disapproval rating was at 59.1 percent — a double-digit gap that would ordinarily spell trouble for the president’s party in a midterm year.
The Hill also reported that fresh surveys show Democrats competitive in Senate battlegrounds and even in states that typically lean Republican, feeding what the outlet described as optimism within Democratic circles that the party could capture control of both chambers of Congress.
A Quinnipiac University poll cited by The Hill found that 51 percent of registered voters said they wanted Democrats to take the House majority, compared with just 39 percent who wanted Republicans to keep it — a twelve-point edge for Democrats on the generic ballot question.
The same survey found that roughly two-thirds of respondents disapproved of how Trump is handling the economy and foreign policy, two areas that have historically driven midterm outcomes.
Turnout as the Wild Card
Trump’s rally message — that his supporters cannot afford to stay home — is a recognition that base turnout is one of the few variables his party can still control heading into Election Day. Polling of registered voters, such as the Quinnipiac survey, can differ meaningfully from the likely-voter models that campaigns use to project outcomes, and the president has argued repeatedly that his coalition is undercounted by traditional survey methods.
Whether that argument holds will depend on whether the voters who packed the venue north of Dayton return in November. For now, the president’s strategy is to keep the rallies coming, keep the crowds engaged, and make the case that predictions of a Republican collapse are premature.
The midterm map includes a slate of Senate and House contests that will determine control of Congress for the remainder of Trump’s term. Republicans are defending seats in several states where Democrats have shown new strength, while Democrats are trying to hold their own vulnerable incumbents in places the president carried comfortably in past elections.
Trump’s Ohio appearance followed the pattern of his recent rallies: a mix of encouragement for local candidates, broadsides against the press, and a closing appeal to supporters to show up at the polls. The language may be coarse, but the underlying message is a familiar one in midterm politics — the party in power lives or dies by whether its voters are motivated to cast ballots when the president’s name is not on the ticket.
For Republicans, the next several weeks will test whether the rally circuit can translate enthusiasm into votes. For Democrats, the polling suggests an opening — provided their own base turns out with similar intensity. Both sides will get their answer in November.
Source: www.breitbart.com — https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/10/04/watch-trump-promises-turnout-will-guarantee-gop-midterm-victory-and-were-going-to-shove-it-up-their-ass/