After Democrat Ralph Northam defeated Republican Ed Gillespie in the Virginia governor race on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump wasted no time in noting that Gillespie did not fully embrace the Trump administration during the campaign.
Trump suggested that the distance Gillespie kept from the administration cost him the governor’s mansion. The President also noted that Republicans won four special elections for House seats this year in an apparent attempt to paint the results in Virginia as a fluke.
Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for. Don’t forget, Republicans won 4 out of 4 House seats, and with the economy doing record numbers, we will continue to win, even bigger than before!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 8, 2017
Trump backed Gillespie during the Virginia gubernatorial race in several tweets, but he did not hit the campaign trail for the Virginia Republican. Gillespie did not run explicitly as a pro-Trump candidate but employed some ads touting policies favored by Trump.
Oh, yeah, like this is a surprise…
Problem was, Dumpy, he did embrace you. Digging down to find MS-13 fer gawd’s sake to play the race card just showed how badly he wanted to be you, but he just didn’t have the number of ignorant rednecks you called on.
Trump as a friend is worse than Trump as an enemy.
Two Scoop’s endorsement of Gillespie was a Kiss of Death.
Why is it, with Unindicted Co-Conspirator # 1, that everything, always, is about him?