President Trump and first lady Melania Trump vote early in West Palm Beach

A hoarse-sounding President Trump cast his ballot alongside first lady Melania Trump in West Palm Beach Saturday, vowing to keep up the grueling campaign schedule that has him hopscotching between rallies to help Republicans ahead of the midterms.“It’s a strain on your voice.It’s a strain.

You know, it’s not normal, what I’ve done,” Trump told reporters after voting before heading to a campaign rally in Georgia.“It’s hard because I’m not campaigning for myself – I’m campaigning for other people, some of whom I don’t know.”Trump said he might return to South Carolina, after just visiting the state Wednesday to campaign with embattled appointed Sen.Darline Graham (R-S.C.), who is in a tight race and who was in Florida Friday night.He praised Ohio Sen.

John Husted (R-Ohio) as a “John – great athlete” and a “big, powerful strong guy,” and even had an upbeat take on keeping the House in Republican hands.Trump even refrained from playing a round of golf while at home in Florida, opting instead to hit balls with some unidentified golf pros: “I wasn’t in the mood to play.Because I’m too busy.”Asked about finding ways to work with Democrats, Trump acknowledged the historical challenges facing the president’s party in midterm elections but insisted his own campaigning could make a difference.“A sitting president always does badly in the midterms,” he said.

“There’s no president that’s ever campaigned like I have.”He also took shots at former presidents Barack Obama, who was campaigning in Ohio and Michigan Saturday, and Bill Clinton, who criticized Trump’s redesigned Rose Garden.“They’re critical because we beat them,” Trump said.“Obama was a lousy president.Clinton was not bad, but he got caught up in a lot of scandals.

Outside of the scandals he would have been a good president.”Trump also declined to rule out pardoning lower-level White House staffers, reassuring glamorous aide Margo Martin, who was ...