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riversedge

(70,239 posts)
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 10:51 AM Mar 2018

Texas candidate backed by Trump campaign manager loses primary

Source: the hill




By Jacqueline Thomsen - 03/07/18 08:27 AM EST

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A candidate backed by President Trump’s new campaign manager was easily defeated in a Texas primary race Tuesday night.

Brad Parscale, who was tapped last month to lead Trump’s reelection campaign, had backed Robert Stovall in the GOP primary for the House seat in Texas' 21st District.

Stovall finished sixth out of the 18 GOP candidates in the primary, with 4.8 percent of the vote, BuzzFeed News reported.



Parscale had spoken out in favor of Stovall in the weeks leading up to the race and told a local newspaper in November that he was helping with the campaign. He served as digital adviser to Trump's 2016 campaign.

"I have considerable data on that congressional district and have a pretty good roadmap of what it looks like," Parscale told the San Antonio Express-News in November. "It will be a big help to him to have the kind of data that I have, in understanding what the turnout model looks like there. I just have a pretty big arsenal, comparable to other people running down there."............................................


Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/377121-texas-candidate-backed-by-trump-campaign-manager-defeated-in-primary



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Texas candidate backed by Trump campaign manager loses primary (Original Post) riversedge Mar 2018 OP
He meant "I have considerable data from Russia" dalton99a Mar 2018 #1
Another poor tRUMP baby goes down in flames! Yeah!!!! Way to go, Texas!! nt SWBTATTReg Mar 2018 #2
The candidate who came in first is an insane RW Ted Cruz guy oberliner Mar 2018 #3
Its Texas. I dont expect much else. bearsfootball516 Mar 2018 #4
Good thing no one is expressing pleasure, then. LanternWaste Mar 2018 #6
Agreed oberliner Mar 2018 #9
Finished sixth place? titaniumsalute Mar 2018 #5
Pieces of work. dchill Mar 2018 #7
Then they should bring back Kellyanne Conway IronLionZion Mar 2018 #8
Trump's backing seems to be a death kiss to politicians sakabatou Mar 2018 #10
What I've yet to figure out... agtcovert Mar 2018 #12
This guy is terrible at his job. alarimer Mar 2018 #11
 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
3. The candidate who came in first is an insane RW Ted Cruz guy
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 11:01 AM
Mar 2018

Nothing to be pleased about here at all.

agtcovert

(238 posts)
12. What I've yet to figure out...
Wed Mar 7, 2018, 07:19 PM
Mar 2018

Is that while I agree 100% with your statement (and relish it ), I for the life of me don't understand why he has and continues to seem to avoid that which would destroy ANY OTHER politician.

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