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The White House was in damage control mode on Wednesday as it sought to deflect blame for Tuesday's sweeping electoral losses and reassure Republicans who fear President Trumps unpopularity will cost them at the polls in 2018.
Democrats view Tuesday as the start of a nationwide voter uprising against Trump. The party coasted to victory in governors races in Virginia and New Jersey, while cutting into GOP majorities in statehouses across the country.
A person familiar with the presidents political operation dismissed the notion that an anti-Trump wave is building, arguing that Democrats had merely held on in states they were expected to win. New Jersey is a deep-blue state, and Virginia has gone for the Democrat in the last three presidential elections.
The person chalked up GOP losses to history, noting that the party that controls the White House typically struggles in off-year gubernatorial races.
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/359453-team-trump-deflects-blame-after-election-losses
syringis
(5,101 posts)By the way, how com it isn't Obama's fault ? Or Hillary's ?
GP6971
(31,158 posts)a default setting.
Moral Compass
(1,521 posts)I hope they keep the rationalizations going. They will be less prepared then.
Big Blue Marble
(5,081 posts)But then it is denial or panic. If they admitted the truth, they would not know what to do.
They are all stuck with the the orange one,their albatross.
syringis
(5,101 posts)I think I have read once, denial is a sort of self protection when reality is too hard to face.
We are not cruel isn't it ? Let's be compassionate and left them in their denial