The classic strategy: Any parent knows bribery is the path to compliance. And President Donald Trump appears to be applying this concept to the voting public.
"Because we've done so well, and because our country is making so much money, that—only I can make this promise to you, and here is my promise—if the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, both of them, because of our economic, tremendous economic success…I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000," he said at the Republican National Committee's midterm convention last night. This would cost more than $1 trillion.