Another warning for Republicans: Trump can't win you your election

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

After Republicans edged out Democrats in a number of special elections in 2017, Democrats consoled themselves by noting how close they’d run in normally Republican districts. Too bad, came the rejoinder from their opponents. Moral victory or not, narrow losses don’t get you political power.

While not wrong, it’s the sort of dismissiveness that makes the current moment sting a bit more. For the second time in a month, it’s Republicans who’ve come not quite close enough in off-year elections, losing a gubernatorial race in Louisiana weeks after similarly getting beaten in Kentucky. What’s worse for the GOP, of course, is that neither of those states is what you might call blue. President Trump won them by 20 and 30 points, respectively, in 2016.

For Trump himself, it gets worse. The president showed up shortly before the Kentucky race to mobilize voters, only to see incumbent Matt Bevin (R) lose. Trump showed up in Louisiana twice for Republican candidate Eddie Rispone, an ally. It didn’t work.

In each case Republicans have readily available asterisks to damp Democrats’ celebrations. Bevin, they argue, was unusually unpopular. Rispone, for his part, was battling an incumbent, always an uphill climb.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/newselection2020/another-warning-for-republicans-trump-cant-win-you-your-election/ar-BBWTUPT?li=BBnb7Kz

If they were wise they'd tell him to stay the fuck away.

[dewsgirl]

1. I wonder if possibly they feed him, false info

and he really thinks he is doing much better than he actually is. They are terrified of him, and have put themselves in a impossible situation.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. It's a great feeling, seeing him lose by proxy.

Perhaps we should stand back and allow him to do what he wants to do:

Make the election about him.