W.H. memo: Trump plans to take credit if Repubs hold onto House, "explain it away" if they don't

[Miles Archer]

An internal memo from White House director of political affairs Bill Stepien suggests Trump’s team is making preparations to explain away a Republican loss of the House and position Trump to claim credit if the party holds onto control of the Senate or even expands its margin.

The memo stresses the challenging political climate for Republican incumbents, emphasizing the historical headwinds for the president’s party in midterm congressional elections, the large number of Republican incumbents retiring and Democratic challengers’ fundraising advantages. The memo says Democratic challengers out-raised incumbent House Republicans in 92 districts in the last quarter.

Stepien also argues that states in which incumbent Democratic senators have faced tough challenges are competitive “only because of Trump” and the Republican party has “no better messenger.”

The memo says Trump has raised $83 million for House candidates running for re-election this year, and that he has campaigned with House candidates in 18 competitive or open seat districts since Aug. 1.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-26/trump-is-said-to-plan-eight-state-campaign-swing-in-final-push

[regnaD kciN]

1. Big shock...

Claiming all the credit and refusing to acknowledge any blame is the Trump S.O.P.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. The (White) House always wins.

[Doodley]

3. Trump will blame it on "Fake News," the "17 angry Democrats" investigating him and the voters

[Loki Liesmith]

4. Not news

[yonder]

5. Taking undeserved credit and spinning things away: Doing what tRump does best.

Also, I would be curious to know how much of that $83 million the memo claims he raised found its way into the coffers of the various Trump organization companies. That greedy, grabbing, grifting family of his probably paved some sort of path for that to happen.

[Journeyman]

6. How does this differ from every other issue with which Trump is involved? . . .

Solely responsible in victory, totally unsullied in defeat.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. We already knew this ... why didn't they ?

I mean, was there really anyone who actually needed to read this memo ?