Why Trump didn't stop a GOP revolt on his border emergency

Basically says Trump did not put much effort into talking to senators to vote for it. IMHO--he is a lazy man.





The Republican revolt on the Senate floor followed a haphazard and erratic persuasion effort from President Donald Trump. | Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images

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Why Trump didn’t stop a GOP revolt on his border emergency

The president’s haphazard persuasion efforts led to an embarrassing rebuff on the Senate floor.


https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/14/trump-failed-gop-border-emergency-1222235

By BURGESS EVERETT and ELIANA JOHNSON

03/14/2019 06:26 PM EDT
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On Thursday morning, Donald Trump sent out a pointed missive ahead of the Senate’s vote to block his emergency declaration: “A vote for today’s resolution by Republican Senators is a vote for Nancy Pelosi, Crime, and the Open Border Democrats!“

Soon after, White House aides began blasting the tweet to GOP senators by text message to remind them of how the president viewed the impending vote, according to senators and aides who received the messages.

The last-minute lobbying did little to quell a Republican rebellion that eventually arrived in eye-popping numbers: a full dozen GOP senators joining Democrats in voting to overturn Trump’s unilateral move to fund his border wall.

It didn’t have to be that way, Republicans say, especially if Trump had engaged more consistently with senators and made a relatively modest agreement to change the National Emergencies Act to rein in presidential power.

It was also a reminder that White House aides have long acknowledged the futility of speaking for or negotiating on the president’s behalf, a position they are now openly conveying to lawmakers: passing along his tweets rather than attempting to twist arms or hash out a compromise themselves. ........................................