Trump Tweets Misspelled Endorsement Of Georgia Republican Candidate

Republican candidate for Georgia's Sixth Congressional seat Karen Handel speaks at an election night watch party in Roswell, Ga., Tuesday, April 18, 2017. Republicans are bidding to prevent a major upset in a conservative Georgia congressional district Tuesday where Democrats stoked by opposition to President Donald Trump have rallied behind a candidate who has raised a shocking amount of money for a special election. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Republican candidate for Georgia's Sixth Congressional seat Karen Handel speaks at an election night watch party in Roswell, Ga., Tuesday, April 18, 2017. Republicans are bidding to prevent a major upset in a conserv... Republican candidate for Georgia's Sixth Congressional seat Karen Handel speaks at an election night watch party in Roswell, Ga., Tuesday, April 18, 2017. Republicans are bidding to prevent a major upset in a conservative Georgia congressional district Tuesday where Democrats stoked by opposition to President Donald Trump have rallied behind a candidate who has raised a shocking amount of money for a special election. (AP Photo/David Goldman) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump on Monday tweeted in support of Georgia Republican candidate Karen Handel, though he couldn’t get a handle on how to spell her name.

Trump deleted his initial misspelled tweet minutes later and posted a new one with the correct spelling of Handel’s surname.

Handel, who is a former Georgia secretary of state, will face Democrat Jon Ossoff on Tuesday in a special runoff election for an open U.S. House seat.

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  1. The pussy-grabber jokes just write themselves, don’t they?!

    Want to handle Karen, Donnie?

  2. Avatar for marby marby says:

    She’s not really Trump’s “type.” He is simply so uninterested in anyone but himself that he can’t be bothered to check for her correct name.

  3. “President Donald Trump on Monday tweeted in support of Georgia Republican candidate Karen Handel, though he couldn’t get a handle on how to spell her name.”

    In all fairness to Trump, he should at least get credit for not misspelling “USA” again.

  4. Now let all the Teabaggers go out and vote for who the Great Orangutan instructed. If she’s not on the ballot, then don’t vote!

    Karen Handel’s opponent in #GA06 can’t even vote in the district he wants to represent…

    Just like Trump and Russia.

  5. If this district is as educated as it is supposed to be, we’ll see if the voters swallow all the Right’s propaganda.

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