Trump says he doesn't know if his success will transfer to 2018 Republicans

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico



By AUBREE ELIZA WEAVER 03/22/2018 03:30 PM EDT

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that although he knows he’s popular with voters, he doesn’t know whether his success will carry over to Republicans running for office in 2018.

Trump described the energy at some of his recent events, saying that the “level of love” during a recent speech in support of House candidate Rick Saccone — who on Wednesday conceded last week’s special election in Pennsylvania to Democrat Conor Lamb — was “incredible,” and calling an earlier rally in December in Pensacola, Florida, “rocking.” The Senate candidate he backed in that speech, Roy Moore, also lost his bid against a Democrat in a special election in Alabama.

“Now I don’t know if it’s transferable,” he added during a Generation Next Summit panel at the White House. “They say a lot of it is not transferable. They may like me. They may vote for me. They’re all saying I’m going to do great in 2020. … But they don’t know if it’s transferable. I hope it’s transferable, because we have to do our agenda. We have to win in ’18. We have to get the agenda. We need more Republicans.” But when it comes to polls, Trump is reluctant to believe the numbers.

“We have a tremendous amount of support,” he said. “It’s sort of an interesting thing — sometimes, they say, you add 9 [points]. Whatever Trump’s poll numbers are, add 9. People don’t want to talk about it, they don’t want to be bothered. But when they get into the voting booth, they say, ‘Vote Trump.’”

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[3catwoman3]

1. May his coattails be as short...

...as his fingers. (Or some other body part.)

He's already setting the stage for not being responsible if the Republicans get swamped by a blue wave.

[PatSeg]

2. His success?!?!

His success is in his dreams.

[MyOwnPeace]

10. Absolutely!

A "legend in his own mind!"

[PatSeg]

20. He just randomly throws shit at the wall

to see what sticks. There is no real agenda and Trump thinks everything he does is a success.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Priceless

[ffr]

4. To the contrary. They will and quite clearly have already, Drump.

You morally bankrupt traitor!

[jmowreader]

5. Says the man who lost the election by 3 million votes...

and who has a 53.4 percent disapproval rating against a 40.6 percent approval rating.

[Honeycombe8]

6. He's spinning on the Repub losses already! As he says, if you say it, they'll believe you.

No matter what the truth is.

He doesn't consider, or care about, having a good reputation for telling the truth, for being honorable. A sad specimen of a human being.

[YOHABLO]

7. Let's hope his "success" will transfer to 2018 Republicans!

[FakeNoose]

13. That's Mitch McConnell's job - and we know how popular HE is!

Let's get to work and make this a BLUE YEAR!

[flibbitygiblets]

19. Hear hear!!

Let the "successes" continue to infect, smear and taint all those who allowed him to get away with this unspeakable selling out of America.

[TranssexualKaren]

8. Really! How convenient.

I guess this means that if the Republicans take bath this year it isn’t his fault.

[denvine]

9. Haha, I want to know what drugs he's on!

I would like to be living in an alternate reality right now!

[pangaia]

11. LOLOLOLO

Gotta go. I have a rehearsal.
Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Dvorak

[Mc Mike]

12. Oh, yeah, he'll get his tRump stench all over them, when he hugs them onstage.

Everything he touches turns to tRump.

[ginnyinWI]

14. fake prez seems to be signaling to the voters to not bother.

Can he be that stupid? Whatever you really think, you are not supposed to say it out loud!

But he is that stupid.

[louis-t]

15. Excuses, excuses, excuses....

Jeez, what an ass.

[Gore1FL]

16. I hope so.

He has successfully pissed off over 50% of the nation.

Transfer
Transfer
Transfer

[yonder]

17. "whatever the numbers, add 9"

That's rich. Perhaps his formula for trumpery? Add nine to whatever one is talking about? There's an Irish reel called the "Nine Points of Roguery" that is sometimes introduced by tying it to the seven deadly sins. That puts him at sixteen and still leaves no dent in the tunes he calls.

And his favourite: "They say". I really want to see reporters start challenging him by asking: 'who are they' or 'who said? What a classless asshat clown.

[YessirAtsaFact]

18. What success? Getting elected with massive financial help and the Rooskie hacker boost?

And still lost the popular vote by over 3 million votes.

[Permanut]

21. Get out there on the campaign trail, Mango Mussolini..

I hope that whatever you have transfers to every Republican running for anything.

[Lithos]

22. Translation

Putin has told him they can't or won't repeat their previous hack job.

L-

[olddad56]

23. I doubt that. Putin has installed him to be the last leader of the formerly free world

[SergeStorms]

24. The height of self-delusion.

"....he knows he's popular with voters"... When you get ALL of your "news" from the official Republican propaganda Wurlitzer, FOX Noise, your world view, both domestic and foreign, are going to be immensely skewed. Trump has no contact with reality. None.