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Offline SirLinksALot

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Trump boasts he went '5 for 5' in Tuesday's elections
« on: August 08, 2018, 03:28:14 pm »
SOURCE: THE HILL

URL: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/400881-trump-boasts-he-went-5-for-5-in-tuesdays-elections

by  Jordan Fabian


President Trump on Wednesday boasted that all five candidates he endorsed in this week's elections won their races, even as contests in Ohio and Kansas were too close to call.

The president declared victory in a brief tweet: "5 for 5!"

Trump sent the message from his New Jersey golf club, where he is spending the week on vacation.

Troy Balderson, a Trump-backed Republican running for a vacant House seat in Ohio, held a narrow lead over his upstart Democratic challenger after Tuesday night's voting.

The same goes for Republican Kris Kobach, who was less than 200 votes ahead of incumbent Gov. Jeff Colyer (R) in Kansas' GOP gubernatorial primary.

Even if both candidates pull out victories, the close results are not encouraging for Trump and the Republican Party.

Balderson's district is solidly Republican district, and has been in the GOP's hands since 1983. But Republican groups were forced to spend millions of dollars to fend off Democrat Danny O'Connor and Trump made a last-minute stop in the district to stage a rally for Balderson.

In Kansas, Trump's endorsement did not give Kobach a decisive edge like it did in Georgia's gubernatorial primary and a South Carolina House primary where it propelled his hand-picked candidates to victory.

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Re: Trump boasts he went '5 for 5' in Tuesday's elections
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2018, 03:31:11 pm »
Interesting. And I thought all you needed to do to win was get more votes.
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Re: Trump boasts he went '5 for 5' in Tuesday's elections
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2018, 11:21:11 pm »
Heads-up GOP candiates .... your best path to victory in November is to hitch your star to the President's coattails.
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Re: Trump boasts he went '5 for 5' in Tuesday's elections
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2018, 07:51:33 pm »
Quote from: skeeter on August 08, 2018, 03:31:11 pm
Interesting. And I thought all you needed to do to win was get more votes.

That's one-dimensional thinking there, @skeeter.  You also have to beat the expectations of people who want you to look like a loser.
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Re: Trump boasts he went '5 for 5' in Tuesday's elections
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2018, 08:19:52 pm »
Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on August 08, 2018, 11:21:11 pm
Heads-up GOP candiates .... your best path to victory in November is to hitch your star to the President's coattails.

Apparently that is the strategy of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Alberta)


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Re: Trump boasts he went '5 for 5' in Tuesday's elections
« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2018, 09:12:38 pm »
Trump boasts he went '5 for 5' in Tuesday's elections

Okay, but the real question is, did he hit for the cycle?
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