Trump isn’t on the ballot. He wants Republicans to pretend he is.

How each outlet headlined it

• Politico left

  Trump isn’t on the ballot. He wants Republicans to pretend he is.
• FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth right

  ‘Pretend I’m on the ballot’: Trump opens inaugural Republican midterm convention in Texas - FOX 4 News Dallas
• Al Jazeera center

  Trump says, 'Pretend I’m on the ballot,' as he rallies Republicans ahead of challenging midterm elections.
• NBC News left

  ‘I’m on the ballot’: Trump tries to energize his base by placing himself front and center
• ABC News: Top Stories left

  On his party's biggest stage, Trump again puts himself in the center of the midterms, urging his supporters to pretend "I'm on the ballot" in a bid to energize the GOP.
  
• The Guardian left

  In two-hour address, president asked voters to ‘pretend that I’m on the ballot’ despite being deeply unpopular among electorate Donald Trump said every adult citizen in the US will receive a dividend of $5,000 if Republicans retain the House and Senate in the midterm elections, while delivering a historically long convention speech in Dallas in which the president assailed Democrats as radical communists and defended his unpopular war in Iran. “If the Republicans win, you win with us, and you ge