One fact stands out about the midterm election. Every candidate Trump campaigned for who was in a swing-state Senate race lost. Trump’s candidates lost in North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, and Ohio. The only state where Trump held rallies and Republicans won was Florida, and Republicans barely won in Florida.
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There was evidence during the campaign that Trump’s rallies were helping Democratic candidates.
Trump has done nothing but distance himself from the election since Tuesday night. The president has blamed his staff, Fox News, Republican candidates, and everyone not named Donald J. Trump.
The president told voters to pretend like he was on the ballot.
They did, and Republicans got smoked from sea to shining sea.
The president loves the cameras. He seeks out the attention that reporters provide to him as he comes and goes from the White House.
Trump has been known to stand outside and answer questions or ramble on for 20 or 30 minutes before he leaves.
Unlike other presidents who have lost midterm elections, Trump didn’t appear in the Brady Briefing Room on the Wednesday after the election to take questions from reporters.
Instead, Trump rant off to play Don The Builder and continue his vandalization of Washington, DC.
Trump fired his chief of staff and promoted Stephen Miller, but the change was obvious when Trump appeared outside the White House on Friday.
