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President Trump on Friday raised the specter that Republicans could lose control of the House of Representatives in Tuesday’s midterm elections — but didn’t seem too worried about the prospect.

“It could happen. Could happen,” Trump said at a MAGA rally for GOP candidates in West Virginia.

“And you know what you do? My whole life, you know what I say? ‘Don’t worry about it, I’ll just figure it out.’ Does that make sense? I’ll figure it out,” he added, apparently the first time he publicly broached the possibility of the loss of the House at a rally.

The GOP could lose, he reflected, because there were so many House races, and he could not campaign in all of them.

“I’m not saying they [Democrats] don’t squeak it by. Maybe because they got a lot of races, and I can’t go everywhere. Can’t go everywhere,” he said.

He then repeated his usual rally riffs about jobs and the economy, “Cryin’ Chuck Schumer” and his long-promised wall at the southern border.

The president told the cheering crowd that “$4.8 billion” had been secured for the wall.

In fact, Congress appropriated $1.6 billion for fence replacement, and Trump is seeking more but it has yet to be approved.

He saved most of his vitriol for “the Democrat mob,” which he claimed favored “open borders,” and the caravan of several thousand Central American asylum seekers roughly 1,000 miles from the US border.

“The Democrats want to invite caravan after caravan … three more are forming,” he said. “A blue wave equals a crime wave.”

He said “the lawless caravan” included those convicted of armed robbery and sexual assault, before slamming the countries the asylum seekers hail from.

“You know what they give to us? Nothing. Nothing. They give us nothing. They give us nothing,” he said.

And he mocked the “fake news” media and ex-President Obama, who held a rally for Democrats in Florida earlier in the day, saying he only drew “a very small crowd.”

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