Seems to me Trump knew this ahead of time and played it perfectly.
Can say he went to bat for Strange and Strange loses anyway.
“Seems to me Trump knew this ahead of time and played it perfectly.
Can say he went to bat for Strange and Strange loses anyway.”
Is that such a great thing though? An influential endorsement can be big currency for a President with his own party, particularly leading into the midterms. Gotta figure there’s a lot of the GOP weasels still plotting about whether it’s better for them to stand with the President or stand against him through to 2018. If having the President go to bat for them doesn’t seem like it would swing the race their way, I can’t say I trust them not to treat that as a reason to stick the knife in instead.
I’d have thought the best result for the President here is one that shows his endorsement can be an election game-changer. That would get the GOP scuttling and creeping and pleading at his feet all the way to next November.