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Originally posted by THGRRI:

And as you say, the rats are scurrying towards the exists. The new commutations man, has no background in communication. What does that tell ya? It tells me, liars for hire.

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Despite his boastful tweets, Trump had negative coattails in 2016
by Matthew Yglesias

Nobody really owes him anything.

President Trump kicked the political week off to an early start with a provocative late-afternoon Sunday tweet taking congressional Republicans to task for their insufficiently zealous defense of, well, President Trump.

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
It's very sad that Republicans, even some that were carried over the line on my back, do very little to protect their President.
3:14 PM - 23 Jul 2017

A tweet like this would suggest he’s a wildly popular president who is targeting members of his own party who might worry about their political futures — but the reality is closer to the opposite.

It’s easy to confuse Trump’s ability to defy expectations by winning the presidency with the idea that he was an extraordinarily effective candidate.

Had Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) put in a couple more solid debate performances and won the GOP nomination, people would have expected him to beat Hillary Clinton and he probably would have lived up to those expectations. Democrats playing the 2016 blame game would do well to remember that the fundamentals that year (2 terms of a Democrat, why make it 3, and slow economic growth) favored the GOP, and what Trump did in essence was come close to squandering that edge.

Though Trump’s surprise win in 2016 might make him seem like a kind of political savant, the reality is he was a drag on his party, a president who didn’t help anyone get over the finish line — offering nothing but anti-coattails.

Trump underperformed in 2016 compared to his rivals

The 2016 election left the national GOP in an extremely powerful position, but it was, paradoxically, a fairly underwhelming performance. Republicans lost two Senate seats and half a dozen House seats.

And critically, Trump did worse than GOP Senate candidates in the key battleground states. Trump finished about half a percentage point behind Sen. Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania and almost 3 points behind Ron Johnson in Wisconsin.

And he did a lot worse than Sen. Rob Portman in Ohio, who outperformed Trump by over 6.5 points; Sen. John McCain in Arizona, who outperformed Trump by nearly 6; and Sen. Marco Rubio in Florida, who beat Trump by 4. What’s particularly telling is that Trump was at odds with those three senators to an unusual degree — Rubio, particularly, opposed him in the primary and once said Trump was a “con artist.” Distance from the Republican nominee clearly helped them, even in three states Trump won.

Overall, Republicans owe Trump very little

In tight Midwestern races, generic Republicans did better than Trump. In a few red-leaning states, Republicans who distanced themselves from Trump did way better than he did.

Nobody in the Senate particularly owes Trump anything. Which means that in reality, the remarkable thing is just how far congressional Republicans have been willing to go to protect Trump.

There’s a fair amount of reason to believe that the whole conservative agenda might be better served by a less-manic, less-conflict-prone leader than the one they ended up stuck with.

www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/24/16017898/trump-negative-coat
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If mid-term elections don’t increase the number of GOP Congressmen, it could be impeachment time for the GOP to dump Trump if he doesn’t change his ways.

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It wuz weird lissining to Kushner'z little press statement. He sounded like a socialy awkward teenaje boy with a low IQ.

He haz the same mental defect Trump haz that makes him think 'pepl will beleev me bekuz I sed it'.

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