In an interview with The New York Times, President Trump said that he was willing to accept the results of tonight’s election, after weeks of suggesting that he wouldn’t.
Trump said that he was “absolutely willing” to accept the results, which were a rebuke to his administration and him personally. He also said that he’d cooperate with Democrats. In another interview, with CBS News, Trump went so far as to congratulate Democrats, whom he called Communists on the campaign trail. In an interview with Fox News, he said Democrats “did a good job.”
In the Times interview, Trump said he would cooperate with Democrats going forward.
“We’ll, you know, look forward to working with them,” he said. “We’ll probably work something out.” That seems unlikely given the agenda, including investigations into his family’s financial dealings, that Democrats are prepared to launch.
Trump said that the Republican losses were a result of him not being on the ballot. “I wasn’t on the ticket, and because I wasn’t on the ticket, we couldn’t get enough people out to vote,” he said.
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He also expressed no regrets for handpicking weak candidates, like Ken Paxton and Darline Graham. Instead, Trump mused that Graham’s brother, the late Sen. Lindsay Graham, would have won.
Of course, Trump’s word is hardly his bond. It’s well within the realm of possibility to have him challenge results and to lash out viciously at Democrats tomorrow. Indeed, on social media he was railing at Fox News for giving “Dumocrats” too much air time. For the moment, at least, Trump seems a bit subdued by the massive losses in an election that was a referendum on his performance.
Still, Trump insisted that his presidency is a huge success. “I consider it to be the most successful two-year period in the history of any president,” he said. Try telling that to all the Republicans who lost tonight.
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