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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Sat Dec 23, 2017, 07:43 PM Dec 2017

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Trump looks ahead to 2018: 'Good' GOP candidates will 'win BIG'

Source: The Hill

BY JACQUELINE THOMSEN - 12/23/17 06:19 PM EST

President Trump predicted that “good Republican candidates will win big” in 2018 after GOP candidates lost key races in 2017.

Link to tweet

Trump had quickly backed Moore in the Alabama Senate race after Strange lost to him in the GOP primary. He also deleted tweets supporting Strange after the senator’s loss.

-snip-

Trump had also endorsed Republican Ed Gillespie in the Virginia gubernatorial race, but Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam (D) overwhelmingly defeated Gillespie in the election.

Trump blamed Gillespie for his loss in the race, saying he “did not embrace me or what I stand for.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/366333-trump-looks-ahead-to-2018-good-gop-candidates-will-win-big

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Trump looks ahead to 2018: 'Good' GOP candidates will 'win BIG' (Original Post) DonViejo Dec 2017 OP

Delusional asshole. Mrs. Overall Dec 2017 #1

I hope he's right... Salviati Dec 2017 #2

According to Trump NastyRiffraff Dec 2017 #6

Trumpette Angry Dragon Dec 2017 #8

Perfect. Dr_Pretorius Dec 2017 #14

More cynically, he decides after the election if thru are good karynnj Dec 2017 #19

I would hope there are not that many pedophiles randr Dec 2017 #10

Im cool with that Tiggeroshii Dec 2017 #3

11/7/18 is going to be ugly in Trump's twit feed jmowreader Dec 2017 #4

I was against him before I was For him BlueIdaho Dec 2017 #5

The Graceful King has Left the Building-------The Idiot is Now Squatting Angry Dragon Dec 2017 #7

Shut up and eat dalton99a Dec 2017 #9

They will win bigly only if they can be bigger assholes mdbl Dec 2017 #11

He is already setting up his excuses. Yonnie3 Dec 2017 #12

Please, Please Please,,,,, Cryptoad Dec 2017 #13

In your wet dreams, asshole. DinahMoeHum Dec 2017 #15

I signed a law I signed a law!!! truthisfreedom Dec 2017 #16

I hope he keeps believing that. sofa king Dec 2017 #17

If only he knew any "good GOP" candidates. Roy Moore? Luther Strange? marble falls Dec 2017 #18

Message auto-removed Name removed Dec 2017 #20

Kiss of death Chrysanthemum Dec 2017 #21

Empty promises of grand things that are always just about to happen... Orsino Dec 2017 #22

Mrs. Overall

(6,839 posts)

1. Delusional asshole.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Dec 23, 2017, 07:47 PM

Dec 2017

Salviati

(6,008 posts)

2. I hope he's right...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Dec 23, 2017, 08:05 PM

Dec 2017

... but then again, I don't believe there ARE any good republican candidates...

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)

6. According to Trump

Reply to Salviati (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 23, 2017, 08:49 PM

Dec 2017

Only a "Trumper" is a good Republican candidate. (Is Trumper a word? I call them "Dumpsters&quot

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)

8. Trumpette

Reply to NastyRiffraff (Reply #6)

Sat Dec 23, 2017, 08:57 PM

Dec 2017

Dr_Pretorius

(71 posts)

14. Perfect.

Reply to Angry Dragon (Reply #8)

Sat Dec 23, 2017, 11:34 PM

Dec 2017

Reminiscent of the devoted "pepettes" of the Odessa football team in the book "Friday Night Lights."

karynnj

(59,504 posts)

19. More cynically, he decides after the election if thru are good

Reply to NastyRiffraff (Reply #6)

Mon Dec 25, 2017, 08:23 AM

Dec 2017

It is easy. If they win, they are like him and good. If they lose, they were not his - rallies and robocalls to the contrary.

The congressional special elections, replacing people he put on the cabinet were in very red areas. He is deluding himself if he thinks they are typical. The VA election showed an undeniable shift. ( Alabama can be considered a terrible candidate.)

randr

(12,413 posts)

10. I would hope there are not that many pedophiles

Reply to Salviati (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 23, 2017, 09:16 PM

Dec 2017

Tiggeroshii

(11,088 posts)

3. Im cool with that

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Dec 23, 2017, 08:26 PM

Dec 2017

Just doesnt look like theres a whole lot of options where that theory would qualify

jmowreader

(50,562 posts)

4. 11/7/18 is going to be ugly in Trump's twit feed

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Dec 23, 2017, 08:39 PM

Dec 2017

Idaho, Utah and Alaska are the only guaranteed GOP holds in 2018. Trump's quality leadership has put the rest of the country in play. I expect the Senate to flip - all we gotta do is hold all the seats we currently have and flip three GOP seats, and it's ours. I think the House is definitely within reach - flipping 25 seats is going to be hard, but Trump makes it less hard.

If that bastard wakes up on November 7 to find Congress in Democratic hands, he will take it out on the entire country.

BlueIdaho

(13,582 posts)

5. I was against him before I was For him

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Dec 23, 2017, 08:43 PM

Dec 2017

“And now I’m against him again...”

Flip... Flop... Flip... Flop...

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)

7. The Graceful King has Left the Building-------The Idiot is Now Squatting

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Dec 23, 2017, 08:54 PM

Dec 2017

dalton99a

(81,566 posts)

9. Shut up and eat

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Dec 23, 2017, 09:14 PM

Dec 2017

mdbl

(4,973 posts)

11. They will win bigly only if they can be bigger assholes

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Dec 23, 2017, 09:44 PM

Dec 2017

than are already there.

Yonnie3

(17,462 posts)

12. He is already setting up his excuses.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Dec 23, 2017, 09:54 PM

Dec 2017

Anyone who loses wasn't a "good" Republican, not a real tRumper. He will then only count the wins, just like in this tweet.

He will be tired of "winning". SAD!

Cryptoad

(8,254 posts)

13. Please, Please Please,,,,,

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Dec 23, 2017, 11:11 PM

Dec 2017

Brand all these "good candidates " with ur Trump Brand!

DinahMoeHum

(21,803 posts)

15. In your wet dreams, asshole.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sun Dec 24, 2017, 04:39 PM

Dec 2017

truthisfreedom

(23,151 posts)

16. I signed a law I signed a law!!!

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sun Dec 24, 2017, 05:07 PM

Dec 2017

I did it I did it! A law a law a law!

sofa king

(10,857 posts)

17. I hope he keeps believing that.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sun Dec 24, 2017, 07:50 PM

Dec 2017

It makes it more probable that there will be an actual election in 2018.

marble falls

(57,145 posts)

18. If only he knew any "good GOP" candidates. Roy Moore? Luther Strange?

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sun Dec 24, 2017, 09:35 PM

Dec 2017

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Chrysanthemum

(188 posts)

21. Kiss of death

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Dec 26, 2017, 02:07 PM

Dec 2017

His endorsement of candidates will continue to be the kiss of death.

Orsino

(37,428 posts)

22. Empty promises of grand things that are always just about to happen...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Dec 26, 2017, 02:13 PM

Dec 2017

...are all he's ever offered.

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