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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump privately trashes GOP #PA18 candidate after his own endorsement fails to boost him
Trump privately trashes @GOP candidate Rick Saccone, @Saccone4PA18 after his own endorsement fails to boost him https://shareblue.com/trump-trashes-gop-candidate-rick-saccade-endorsement-fails/ #PA18
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I think Donald is in PA now?? or leaving soon to campaign for Rick Saccone.
Trump privately trashes GOP candidate after his own endorsement fails to boost him
March 9, 2018
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The Republican in Pennsylvania's special election is dangerously close to losing. So naturally, Trump is attacking him.
The special election for Pennsylvanias 18th Congressional District was never supposed to be close race. But even as Trump struggles to prop up Republican candidate Rick Saccone, behind closed doors he is trashing him as a failure.
According to CNNs Jeremy Diamond and Jake Tapper, Trump has told senior White House officials that Saccone is a weak candidate and a poor fundraiser, and believes that his involvement can only help his struggling campaign.
On the one hand, Republicans do broadly agree that Saccone, an Air Force veteran and state representative, is a worse campaigner than Democratic candidate Conor lamb, a former Marine and federal prosecutor. Saccone has a checkered past that includes voting against protecting puppies from animal abuse and telling a mother that the government has no money to help her opioid-addicted son./........................
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Rick Saccone Retweeted
Donald J. Trump
Verified account @realDonaldTrump
3h3 hours ago
Heading to Moon Township, Pennsylvania, to be with a really good person, State Representative Rick Saccone, who is running for Congress. Big & happy crowd (why not, some of the best economic numbers ever). Rick will help me a lot. Also, tough on crime & border. Loves 2nd A & VETS
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Rick Saccone
Verified account @Saccone4PA18
4h4 hours ago
Looking forward to welcoming back @realdonaldtrump back to Southwestern PA! Just three days until the March 13 special election in #PA18
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Rick Saccone Retweeted
Donald Trump Jr.
Verified account @DonaldJTrumpJr
23h23 hours ago
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Donald Trump Jr. Retweeted Brad Parscale
So true... Pennsylvania 18 remember this next week. Get out and vote. #PA #Pennsylvania #gotv
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Trump privately trashes GOP #PA18 candidate after his own endorsement fails to boost him (Original Post)
riversedge
Mar 2018
OP
Thanks for putting this together, river! - also, FYI, LOSER45 in PA will be on Faux noose tonight
Leghorn21
Mar 2018
#1
Honestly, reading his yammering in text form afterwards is just a scream, river!
Leghorn21
Mar 2018
#6
Leghorn21
(13,522 posts)1. Thanks for putting this together, river! - also, FYI, LOSER45 in PA will be on Faux noose tonight
at 7pm, if nowhere else...
riversedge
(70,047 posts)4. I will have to check a few tweets. I dropped fox
cable a while ago.
Leghorn21
(13,522 posts)6. Honestly, reading his yammering in text form afterwards is just a scream, river!
...sometimes a scream of hilarity, often a scream of a pain, but a scream nevertheless...
Oy
riversedge
(70,047 posts)7. my eyes get crossed trying to read a paragraph or two from trumps babbling.
riversedge
(70,047 posts)2. Rick Saccone screaming like a lunatic:In Pennsylvania were still clinging to our guns & our bibles!
loony bin for him
Scott Dworkin
Verified account @funder
6h6 hours ago
Retweet this if you want Democrat Conor Lamb to win his special election on Tuesday. Heres video of his GOP opponent Rick Saccone screaming like a lunatic: In Pennsylvania were still clinging to our guns & our bibles!
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Cha
(296,775 posts)3. Mahalo, rivers!
riversedge
(70,047 posts)9. Hey there:-)
Cha
(296,775 posts)10. Kick for Conor!
cloudbase
(5,511 posts)5. Well, ya can't polish every turd. n/t
marybourg
(12,584 posts)8. "voting against protecting puppies from animal abuse
and telling a mother that the government has no money to help her opioid-addicted son."
What's the problem there? Publicans love that stuff!
duforsure
(11,884 posts)11. Like he says himself
He stands for nothing, believe him.