After Republicans lost another special election to fill an open seat in Congress, President Donald Trump on Wednesday night offered his spin on the loss and suggested that the race was a fluke.
During a fundraiser in Missouri, Trump claimed that Conor Lamb, the Democrat who appears to have won a seat in Congress representing a conservative district in Pennsylvania, is “like Trump,” according to The Atlantic. The President suggested that Lamb won due to his similarities to himself, not because of a broader struggle Republicans face heading into the 2018 midterms.
“The young man last night that ran, he said, ‘Oh, I’m like Trump. Second Amendment, everything. I love the tax cuts, everything.’ He ran on that basis,” Trump said at the fundraiser, according to an audio recording obtained by The Atlantic. “He ran on a campaign that said very nice things about me. I said, ‘Is he a Republican? He sounds like a Republican to me.’”
While Lamb does not support new restrictions on guns beyond stronger background checks, he called the Republican tax law a “giveaway” to wealthy Americans and criticized attempts to repeal Obamacare.
Trump did later acknowledge that Lamb will likely “vote with Nancy Pelosi” once he reaches Congress, per The Atlantic.
Though it appears the Republican candidate, Rick Saccone, will lose the race, Trump claimed that his rally for Saccone lifted the candidate.
“We had an interesting time because we lifted [Saccone] seven points up. That’s a lot,” Trump said, according to The Atlantic. “And I was up 22 points, and we lifted seven, and seven normally would be enough, but we’ll see how it all comes out. It’s, like, virtually a tie.”
Read The Atlantic’s full report here.
Lying liar lies…
Again.
So that’s how you never lose in your own mind.
You co-opt the victory of the person who beat you as your own.
A fascinating observation in a mental patient.
In a president?
Yikes.
Yep. Sure sounds like he thought the tax cuts where great.
“That rally I held on Saturday…that was to support Lamb. My guy won. He said he’s like me. He sounds like me. He’s just like me.”
You stay delusional, Donnie. Hear what you need to hear. See what you need to see. Feel what you need to feel.
He will never, never accept the fact that people are rejecting his policies, his “style” and, more importantly, him personally. He will always be in whatever reality he needs to create for himself to remain comfortable at the moment.
ETA: I’m sure (most of) the Congressional Republicans who were out yesterday spinning this as the party line in unison know that it’s bullshit. Trump, on the other hand, will convince himself it’s true.
Unless he’s a partner in a Motel 6 that caters to foreign dignitaries, fucks porn stars in his spare time, and cheats contractors like your average highly stable genius, I’m going to say that’s a hard “No.”