Who Pays for a Midterm Campaign the President Isn't Running In
Trump isn't on the ballot, but Deutsche Welle reports he is campaigning hard ahead of the midterms, with tactics and promises that the outlet says have mostly come at the expense of US taxpayers. Experts told DW that some of those moves might violate federal law.
The distinction worth keeping straight: a president stumping for his party is not the strange part. The strange part, as reported, is who is said to absorb the cost — a public purse paying for something that looks like a campaign.
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The real move is making the midterms a referendum on himself: the election stops being about a dozen local races and becomes about one man's agenda.
Or it's ordinary coalition-building with an unusual bill. The sharper objection in the reporting isn't the travel, it's that taxpayers are said to be footing much of it — a different complaint than 'unusual.'