The White House is
switching into campaign mode as it seeks to protect the GOP’s
congressional majorities in the 2018 midterms.
Ahead of the midterms,
with election prognosticators increasingly forecasting a blue wave that could
produce the first Democratic-controlled House since 2010, President Trump is
gearing up for a fall blitz with aides saying he plans to hit the campaign
trail for Republican candidates four, five or even six days a week
starting around Labor Day.
President Trump went to
Moon Township in suburban Pennsylvania on Saturday for GOP House
candidate Rick Saccone, who is running neck-and neck with Democrat Conor “Lamb
the Sham” Lamb ahead of next week’s special election.
The White House says
it’s been inundated with candidates seeking the President’s
endorsement and aides are eager to get him on the campaign trail. “There’s a
desire by these candidates to have the president out on the trail,” said White
House political director Bill Stepien. “He takes that responsibility very
seriously as the leader of the party and, most importantly, to help elect the
people who will advance his agenda.”
The New
York Times said of the rally,”[it] seemed to reveal a President happier
than he has been in weeks, his mentioning of the new slogan [Keep America
Great!], which he had alluded to for months but never before highlighted,
pointed to the challenge he will face in 2020. While he will argue that he has
done much to restore the country to greatness, he will have to make a case that
there is enough left undone that he should be given another term to finish the
job.”
“The President said he
loved his original ‘Make America Great Again’ slogan, but that he already had
to think ahead. ‘I can’t say Make America Great Again because I already did
that,’ he said.”
“He emphasized that it
was ‘our’ slogan, noting that his supporters helped make everything happen.”
The President went off
teleprompter mentioning remarks he made during a 1999 appearance on “Meet the
Press” where he talked about North Korea.
“You ever see the
story? Where it’s 1999. I’m on ‘Meet the Press,’ a show now headed by sleepy
eyes Chuck Todd. He’s a sleeping son of a bitch, I’ll tell you. And they showed
it this morning, 1999, and I’m talking about North Korea, ‘You gotta take them
out now.’”
“And then they have [Bill]
Clinton saying, ‘We are pleased to announce that we have made a deal with North
Korea,” Trump continued. “Well, you know how that deal turned out, right? We
gave billions and billions of dollars and lots of other things. And we got
nothing. But they show me young, handsome. I said, why couldn’t I look like
that today? I should’ve run back then, right?”
Of course, this is not the first time Todd has been mocked for his fatigued appearance:
Sleepy eyes @chucktodd -- whenever you mention me unfairly I will likewise mention you.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 9, 2012
I know @chucktodd. Chuck Todd is a friend of mine. And Chuck Todd is not an SOB.— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) March 11, 2018
So he *is Sleepy though? https://t.co/erXwR0HNws— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) March 11, 2018
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