After Alabama loss, Trump has ambitious plans to campaign in 2018 midterms (MAGA Phase II)

The Washington Compost ^ | December 16, 2017 | Josh Dawsey and Michael Scherer

[E. Pluribus Unum]

President Trump is not on the ballot in 2018, but the White House is planning a full-throttle campaign to plunge the president into the midterm elections, according to senior officials and advisers familiar with the planning.

Trump’s political aides have met with 116 candidates for office in recent months, according to senior White House officials, seeking to become involved in Senate, House and gubernatorial races — and possibly contested Republican primaries as well.

The president has told advisers that he wants to travel extensively and hold rallies and that he is looking forward to spending much of 2018 campaigning. He has also told aides that the elections would largely determine what he can get done — and that he expects he would be blamed for losses, such as last week’s humiliating defeat that handed a Senate seat in Alabama to a Democrat for the first time in 25 years.

“For the president, this isn’t about adulation and cheering crowds,” White House political director Bill Stepien said in an interview. “This is about electing and reelecting Republicans.”

But getting deeply involved in the midterms could be a highly risky strategy for a president with historically low approval ratings, now hovering in the mid- to low-30s in many national polls, and might be particularly disruptive in primary contests pitting establishment candidates against pro-Trump insurgents. Last week’s upset in Alabama — where Democrat Doug Jones defeated Republican nominee Roy Moore — came after Trump endorsed two losing candidates in both the primary and special election.

[Lurkinanloomin]

If he campaigns to re-elect the deadwood that has been obstructing him, he should stay home.

If he is going to help US get rid of the Cheap Labor Express stooges who refuse to mandate e-verify, fund the wall, end chain migration, end anchor babies, cut off benefits to illegal aliens, then Let’s Get This Party Started!

[dfwgator]

It’s ironic that the guy who’s been so critical of the GOP Establishment now finds himself campaigning for them.

You gotta do, what you gotta do. Draining the Swamp is going to take time, the best option right now if for Trump to convince enough establishment Republicans that coming over to his side is the winning strategy.

[Fungi]

Why is it so many articles from the NY Slime and the Compost have two or more individuals as authors? Just a question.

[Balding_Eagle]

I love Axelrod smirking that the rats want Trump on the campaign trail.

History began this morning for those idiots, they have long forgotten how effective Trump is behind a microphone.

We are looking at packed stadiums in 2018, and I love it.

[Balding_Eagle]

They are afraid a writer left to himself would commit suicide as they ‘do research’ on Trumps accomplishments.

[Nextrush]

The coming months will be telling on issues like DACA.

If the POTUS isn’t going to do the right thing about immigration, many hard core supporters will be upset.

Campaigning for insider Republicans RINO’s who want the country flooded with cheap labor while using “border security” speeches as a cover is laughable.

[House Atreides]

“...Can’t wait to watch my President reshape the GOP in his own image!!!
He knew that Luther Strange was the safe bet in Alabama and I trust his political instincts....”
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Sorry...but Luther Strange was McConnell’s bet in Alabama. Campaigning for all of McConnell’s suggested candidates will only result in a Senate MORE IN MCCONNELL’S IMAGE and not in Trump’s image.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Exactly right, Trump stains his own brand endorsing Uniparty weasels.

[KevinB]

He knew that Luther Strange was the safe bet in Alabama and I trust his political instincts.

I'm sure Jeff Sessions knew Moore was a questionable candidate and advised POTUS accordingly.

[del4hope]

Trump needed Strange’s vote in the senate. Strange was not wanted by the voters mostly because he had been appointed to fill the seat by our former disgraced governor who resigned shortly after the appointment. Strange had been the state AG, so it was advantageous for the ex-gov to appoint him.

Honestly, it had seemed that most people wanted Brooks appointed. When the election was called, it seemed that there should be no way Strange was going to win. You have to realize we have crossover primary voting here. The dems vote for who is easiest to defeat. The conservatives split between Moore and Brooks and Moore came out ahead, forcing a runoff between Moore and Strange. Moore never strongly campaigned through the primary of runoffs. Yet he came out on top, until facing the dem.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

He ought to put his efforts into eliminating voter fraud and requiring IDs to vote.

[Yosemitest]

Don't for one second think that Judy Roy Moore lost that election !
Can't you see DemocRAT generated FAKE VOTES right in front of you ?

The information in the article Vote Fraud of Alabama from TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2017, deserves saving.

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There is absolutely not any way that Roy Moore lost the Alabama election for United States Senate. This was a matter again of vote rigging in population centers.

Simply look at the massive margins which Doug Jones had to pile up in concentrated population areas. To put it plainly, Alabama is a state of 6 out of 10 voters are Republicans, in remembering this 60 to 40 percent margin, look at these numbers in percentages for Doug Jones.



 Bullock 80.4%
Macon 88.1
Montgomery 72.1
Dallas 74.7
Perry 79
Wilcox 76.7
Hale 87.6
Sumter 80.9
Jefferson 69.6
Mobile 57.2
Madison 56.9


One only sees numbers like this in Pyongyang, Tehran and Peking. In a state of 60% Republicans who were highly motivated for Roy Moore, while Doug Jones was getting Hillary Clinton no shows at his events, and we are to believe that in Macon County 90% of the voters voted for Doug Jones?


County


	Jones	Moore	Write-Ins	Rpt.
Jefferson	121,169	49,910	3,121	85%
Madison	65,664	46,313	3,446	100
Mobile	57,715	41,398	1,300	71
Montgomery	48,186	17,705	743	100
Shelby	27,251	36,424	1,718	100
Baldwin	22,131	38,445	1,699	98
Tuscaloosa	30,858	22,064	1,007	100
Lee	19,810	14,017	672	100
Morgan	10,901	19,187	668	100
Etowah	10,518	15,693	617	100
Calhoun	11,705	14,567	399	100
Limestone	9,606	14,298	515	100
Houston	9,107	14,796	285	100
Lauderdale	9,908	12,775	382	100
St. Clair	6,203	15,876	459	100
Elmore	7,711	14,411	338	100
Cullman	4,156	16,602	324	100
Talladega	9,967	9,698	223	100
Marshall	5,134	13,828	449	100
Walker	4,317	11,909	259	100
Colbert	6,865	7,762	171	100
Autauga	5,606	8,752	253	100
Blount	2,405	11,621	180	100
Dallas	10,492	3,485	60	100
DeKalb	3,559	10,097	234	100
Coffee	3,715	8,052	202	100
Tallapoosa	4,590	7,171	148	100
Dale	3,842	6,988	136	100
Jackson	3,328	7,316	154	100
Russell	6,761	3,622	55	100
Chilton	2,298	7,555	132	100
Covington	2,102	6,825	88	100
Escambia	3,640	4,985	87	100
Lawrence	3,028	5,314	61	100
Clarke	4,346	3,984	43	100
Pike	3,989	4,154	97	100
Chambers	4,247	3,308	75	100
Marengo	4,495	2,804	62	100
Geneva	1,289	5,431	93	100
Marion	1,311	5,268	68	100
Monroe	3,244	3,276	40	100
Macon	5,780	758	20	100
Barbour	3,680	2,699	41	100
Pickens	3,057	2,961	46	100
Franklin	1,770	4,214	48	100
Butler	2,914	2,756	41	100
Winston	911	4,680	67	100
Cherokee	1,525	3,996	110	100
Hale	3,894	1,691	32	100
Bibb	1,567	3,599	66	100
Washington	1,799	3,320	48	100
Henry	1,896	3,014	38	100
Randolph	1,692	3,229	23	100
Lowndes	3,779	988	13	100
Fayette	1,142	3,491	50	100
Sumter	3,527	814	18	100
Wilcox	3,344	999	16	100
Choctaw	2,273	1,949	17	100
Conecuh	2,259	1,815	18	100
Perry	3,138	821	11	100
Greene	3,340	462	9	100
Crenshaw	1,320	2,347	56	100
Lamar	779	2,847	29	100
Clay	985	2,586	44	100
Bullock	2,712	656	7	100
Coosa	1,414	1,867	30	100
Cleburne	594	2,465	30	100



I did an inquiry of the matrix and the numbers which returned were a long the lines of a month ago in Roy Moore won by 62% and Doug Jones lost in 28% of the vote.

This is what the deep state looks like when it steals an election. FOX comes out with a bogus poll to repress voting, but is more to prepare the Republicans for defeat, as Matt Drudge bashes the Alabama Citizens over the head for months, for the fag vote mafia.

What took place is e vote fraud, write ins, vote fraud and busing in voters. At one point Doug Jones somehow got 60,000 votes in a few moments.

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[trebb]

How strongly will Trump’s efforts align with Bannon’s on Senate Races?

Wherever it makes sense - better question might be how will Bannon's efforts align with Trump's....

[Pollard]

hopefully they’ll communicate and stay on the same page, else it will be the typical republican, circular firing squad.