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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Sun Jan 7, 2018, 09:04 AM Jan 2018

Trump washes his hands of insurgency against GOP incumbents

President Donald Trump says he's done campaigning for insurgents challenging incumbent Republican members of Congress.

Trump told reporters after meeting GOP House and Senate leaders at Camp David on Saturday that he's planning a robust schedule of campaigning for the 2018 midterm elections and that includes involvement in the Republican primaries. He'll campaign for incumbents, he said, and "anybody else that has my kind of thinking."

But after a stinging loss in Alabama, Trump said he's done supporting challengers, declaring: "I don't see that happening." Trump had supported Roy Moore after he won the GOP primary. Moore's defeat in the subsequent special election handed Democrats another seat in the Senate.


[link:http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/Trump-washes-his-hands-of-insurgency-against-GOP-12479509.php|
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Trump washes his hands of insurgency against GOP incumbents (Original Post) Soph0571 Jan 2018 OP
If they were smart they would keep him far away dewsgirl Jan 2018 #1
Yep, that agreement lasts only as long as they refrain from criticizing him. tanyev Jan 2018 #2

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
1. If they were smart they would keep him far away
Sun Jan 7, 2018, 09:28 AM
Jan 2018

From their campaigns. I'm happy, by then he'll have done so much damage, more than half the country will turn blue, maybe more.

tanyev

(42,591 posts)
2. Yep, that agreement lasts only as long as they refrain from criticizing him.
Sun Jan 7, 2018, 10:56 AM
Jan 2018

If his approval is so low they decide they have to attack him to get re-elected, then PGOTUS will go rabid on them.

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