Tennessee Senate Race Scaring Trump

[DonViejo]

Eric Boehlert

June 1, 2018 4:00 am

Privately contradicting his public boasts about the state of Tennessee’s U.S. Senate race, Trump told donors behind closed doors this week the Democratic candidate there is “tough” and the race remains winnable for Democrats.

Trump won Tennessee by 26 points in 2016. But the party there is struggling with this year’s Senate race.

“It’s close. It’s very close,” Trump warned donors, as he discussed the campaign of Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). “She was down by a little bit a couple of months ago, now she’s pulled even. We’re in a very even race,”

He later stressed, “I do want to tell you get out there and make sure everybody that you know votes for Marsha because it’s going to be a tough election. It’s going to be very close.”

That’s a very different message than the one Trump gave at a Nashville rally on Tuesday, where he mocked Democratic candidate Phil Bredesen as “a total tool” whom he’d never heard of.

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[redstateblues]

1. Bredesen has led Blackburn consistently. He was a popular Governor

And a lot of Rs crossed the aisle to vote for him. He brought VW, Nissan, the Titans and the Preds to TN

[spanone]

2. even republicans don't care for marsha blackheart

[Orsino]

3. The mark of great party leadership: "I wish you would get more people would vote for her." n/t

[kentuck]

4. No problem.

He'll have an excuse if the Democrat wins. He always has an excuse.