Trump: Saccone 'didn't quite make it'

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN




By Sophie Tatum, CNN

Updated 12:47 AM ET, Wed March 21, 2018

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump said Rick Saccone lost the Pennsylvania special election, despite the fact that he has not yet conceded the race.

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"It was really close," Trump told the attendees. "We went in there. They were down. Good man, Rick Saccone. Good man. And didn't quite make it. But lost, think of it, lost by about 300 votes out of all of those votes. So, it's pretty incredible. But we can't let it happen. We have to win. There's nothing like winning. We have to win."

Trump then added, "We're 5-0 and then we lost by 300 votes the other night, right? 300 out of 200-twenty-some-odd-thousand votes. 300 votes. And I will tell you, though, that area in Pennsylvania, and all of Pennsylvania, and all other states, they're energized. 'Cause I made a speech there two nights before, and I'll tell you what -- that crowd was -- they were going. They really -- they were happy. They were thrilled. I wish I was running. Man. That was some energetic group."

The current vote tally shows Lamb up by about 700 votes, not 300.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/20/politics/donald-trump-nrcc/index.html

[Archae]

1. "We're 5-0..." What the hell is he talking about?

5-0 losing?

[FSogol]

15. He probably got 5 scoops of ice cream that night

[DFW]

2. Trump math

He treats the margins of victory of Democratic opponents the same way he treats his business debts:

First, take off half, and then take some off of that before settling.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. "We're 5-0."???

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Not only 'didn't quite make it' but he LOST because he and Trump are LOSERS!

[duforsure]

5. HE's desperately trying to project it was the candidate's fault

When it was his appearances and the anti-trump vote that beat his candidate. The numbers are rapidly growing of anti trump voters , and republicans that will never accept his corruption, his racism, and hatred for so many others, and for all the lying. Congress GOP are in disaster mode seeing the wave coming at them now, for doing nothing to stop trump , and hurting this country with their policies for the wealthy, while hurting the rest of us. This will be a lot worse for them as he's exposed more too.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. No EC To Fall Back On For Congresscritters

Someone remind this idiot, that even with the lie about illegals voting, the winning margin would have been a far smaller percentage than 300 (a lie) out of 20,000. One is 1.5%. The other would be zero. (And we know it was really -3%)

[Javaman]

7. in other news: president orange asshole is tweeking. nt

[titaniumsalute]

8. He kinda forgot that he won the district by 20 points in 2016

This ruby red district that voted for Trump voted against the Republican. Yes it was 300 votes but that was a miracle that it was even that close in this red district.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. But it wasn't "300 votes". That is an outright lie number

pulled out of his ass.

It is almost 800 votes. See post #9.

[titaniumsalute]

11. Yeah I wasn't sure what the final was

Either way the important point was the 20 point swing.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. And the district goes away regardless

[titaniumsalute]

13. Yup...it was a nice win and dominated news cycles. But short term.

Good news though we should pick up 2 to 3 seats in PA with new districts.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. Especially one right outside of where I am (Philly)

that replaces the infamous PA-7, now a completely reconfigured and renumbered PA-5. That one will go blue for sure.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. He lost by 758 votes (so far)

Conor Lamb's lead grows as special election review continues

Wes Venteicher | Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 4:15 p.m.

Updated 3 hours ago

Democrat Conor Lamb's lead over Republican Rick Saccone grew slightly Tuesday as election staffers from the 18th Congressional District's four counties continued counting batches of remaining votes.

Lamb had a 758-vote lead as of Tuesday afternoon, a week after a special election to replace former U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy in Congress, according to unofficial tallies. That's up from the 627-vote lead that Lamb, 33, of Mt. Lebanon, held the day after the special election.

The updated total includes absentee and provisional ballots, the latter of which are used to record votes when there are questions about a voter's eligibility, along with ballots cast by residents overseas and in the military.

Lamb had 114,097 votes to Saccone's 113,339 and Libertarian Drew Miller's 1,381, unofficial tallies showed.

http://triblive.com/local/regional/13443796-74/conor-lambs-lead-grows-as-special-election-review-continues

The military/overseas ballots had to be in by yesterday I think, so they are still counting.