{"id":25992,"date":"2017-11-08T03:13:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T03:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25992"},"modified":"2017-11-08T03:14:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T03:14:33","slug":"trump-wont-own-this-failure-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25992","title":{"rendered":"Trump won&#8217;t own this failure, either"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/northam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25993\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/northam-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/northam-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/northam-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/northam-1024x555.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/northam.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump is mistaken.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that. I&#8217;m saying the president is wrong in assessing a political outcome.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam is going to become Virginia&#8217;s next governor; he defeated Republican nominee Ed Gillespie in one of the hottest, most bitter races in that state&#8217;s recent memory.<\/p>\n<p>Northam shackled Gillespie to Trump, joined them at the hip. He ran hard. He fought hard. Northam won.<\/p>\n<p>How did the president take the news way over yonder in South Korea, where he is visiting as part of his five-nation Asia trip? He said Gillespie &#8220;worked hard&#8221; but failed to endorse the Trump agenda. He said Gillespie didn&#8217;t run &#8212; and this really kills me &#8212; as a &#8220;Trump Republican.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am not yet persuaded that Trump even is a Republican as I understand the philosophy of a once-great political party. He has hijacked it, turned into something most long-standing Republicans no longer recognize.<\/p>\n<p>The president&#8217;s cult of personality has overpowered the Republican Party and, thus, in my view has turned off many voters.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Gillespie paid the price for belonging to the same party as president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Trump did seek to put some sort of positive spin on the political lay of the land. He tweeted:\u00a0<em>\u201cDon\u2019t forget, Republicans won 4 out of 4 House seats, and with the economy doing record numbers, we will continue to win, even bigger than before!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Time will tell on that one, Mr. President.<\/p>\n<p>Oh &#8230; and don&#8217;t forget: the Republican candidate today also lost the governor&#8217;s race in New Jersey, which now flips to Democratic control. Another &#8220;win,&#8221; Mr. President?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump is mistaken. Imagine that. I&#8217;m saying the president is wrong in assessing a political outcome. Democratic Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam is going to become Virginia&#8217;s next governor; he defeated Republican nominee Ed Gillespie in one of the hottest, most bitter races in that state&#8217;s recent memory. Northam shackled Gillespie to Trump, joined them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25992\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump won&#8217;t own this failure, either<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1424,1941],"class_list":["post-25992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25995,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25992\/revisions\/25995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}