President Trump is not on the ballot in 2018, but the White House is planning a full-throttle campaign to plunge the president into the midterm elections, according to senior officials and advisers familiar with the planning.
Trump’s political aides have met with 116 candidates for office in recent months, according to senior White House officials, seeking to become involved in Senate, House and gubernatorial races — and possibly contested Republican primaries as well.
The president has told advisers that he wants to travel extensively and hold rallies and that he is looking forward to spending much of 2018 campaigning. He has also told aides that the elections would largely determine what he can get done — and that he expects he would be blamed for losses, such as last week’s humiliating defeat that handed a Senate seat in Alabama to a Democrat for the first time in 25 years.
“For the president, this isn’t about adulation and cheering crowds,” White House political director Bill Stepien said in an interview. “This is about electing and reelecting Republicans.”
First off this is ABSOLUTELY about adulation and cheering crowds.
Trump is a publicity seeking vampire who feeds on applause and attention.
Secondly I think we should all thank Donald Trump for doing half of the Democrats work for them in 2018.
You know that many, if not most, of the Democratic advertisements were going to feature the Republican candidates cozying up to Donald Trump, and now Trump is actually going to provide campaign commercial ready footage for that very purpose.
Hey maybe he can bring Roy Moore and Steve Bannon along as well so that it can be a Democratic slam dunk?
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