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Trump’s Endorsement Track Record

Pennsylvania Special Election

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There is a special election in Pennsylvania in mid March. IIRC Trump is 0-2 in Alabama, (Luther Strange, Roy Moore), not sure if POTUS weighed in in the Georgia election. So does the POTUS endorsement help, hurt, or nothingburger?
 
Rexedgar said:
There is a special election in Pennsylvania in mid March. IIRC Trump is 0-2 in Alabama, (Luther Strange, Roy Moore), not sure if POTUS weighed in in the Georgia election. So does the POTUS endorsement help, hurt, or nothingburger?
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Pennsylvania is grossly GOP gerrymandered. Rural areas tend to be red and the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia areas a strong blue.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to consolidate and hear the gerrymandering suits and will reach a decision soon enough to impact the 2018 midterms.
 
Rexedgar said:
There is a special election in Pennsylvania in mid March. IIRC Trump is 0-2 in Alabama, (Luther Strange, Roy Moore), not sure if POTUS weighed in in the Georgia election. So does the POTUS endorsement help, hurt, or nothingburger?
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Trump did weigh in on Georgia's 6th CD. GOP Handel did win, but by 3 points in a district that gave her Republican predecessor an average of a 20 point wins in his last three elections. The overwhelming redness of the district pulled Handel through. Voter turn out for that special election was surprising heavy at around 60%. I think almost every democrat in the district had to show up at the polls to vote against Handel as she represented an anti-Trump vote. I think Trump drove the Democrats to the polls in record numbers for that CD. That without the anti Trump feelings among the democrats in that CD, quite a lot of them wouldn't have bothered to show up. Trump was the catalyst for them going to the polls.
 
I wouldn't want to be running for office and have Trump's endorsement. I think it's the kiss of death.
 
IMO, Strange & Moore were going to lose regardless of Trump's endorsement. The fact that, with the exception of the core 30-50% of R's that got him elected, most people are unsatisfied with Trump. Trump is a Republican. This association alone is what pulled down Strange & Moore. Trump's endorsement didn't help, but it didn't change the outcome.
 
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