White House says Dem's upset win came from embracing Trump policies

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY JONATHAN EASLEY - 03/14/18 04:32 PM EDT

The White House said Wednesday that Democrat Conor Lamb (Penn.), who appears headed for an upset special election victory in Pennsylvania’s 18th district, won by embracing President Trump’s policies.

Trump campaigned for Republican Rick Saccone, who appears headed for a narrow loss in a district that Trump carried by 20 points.

“The president’s engagement in the race turned what was a deficit for the Republican candidate to what is essentially a tie,” said White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah. “Also the Democrat in the race really embraced the president’s policies and his vision whereas he didn’t really embrace Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader.”

Lamb, who is Catholic, ran as a moderate Democrat, saying that he personally opposes abortion but supports the right to choose. He also said he supports strengthening the background checks system but did not join Democrats in calling for other new gun restrictions in the wake of a deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school last month.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/378449-white-house-says-dems-upset-win-came-from-embracing-trump-policies

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. LIARS

There is NOTHING trumpian or GOP about

Lamb, who is Catholic, ran as a moderate Democrat, saying that he personally opposes abortion but supports the right to choose

Perfect example why UNCONDITIONAL support of the party makes sense at this time.

[TranssexualKaren]

11. Also opposed the tax plan

Supports social security etc.
Now i’m More of an Elizabeth warren democrat myself, but at least he isn’t psychotic as was the case with Saccone.

[Eliot Rosewater]

12. And even if he was against SS, and in favor of the tax plan, SO IS

the other guy and electing the D gives OUR party more POWER.

MATH

[7962]

20. Yes! lots of folks will cut off their nose to spite their face

What you point out is what gets lost so many times. Passing up the candidate with the better odds in favor of the perceived "perfect" one who will get beat.

[Eliot Rosewater]

22. I appreciate you saying this.

[SummerSnow]

26. Some people are never happy. Lamb is nothing like Trump

[47of74]

2. lol

Orange Fuck Face and those who work for him have been spouting the same propaganda for so long they start to believe it themselves.

[ollie10]

3. so....when Trump made that campaign stop....he was telling the crowd to vote for Lamb?

[forgotmylogin]

44. Trump also thinks he was responsible for how well the Winter Games went.

He accepts your thanks for the sun rising in the morning each day, as only he can guarantee that will happen.

[hibbing]

4. ffs n/t

[50 Shades Of Blue]

5. And Saccone didn't?

[paleotn]

6. Ha!!!

Ummmm......no.

[Orange Free State]

7. Lamb never paid off any porn stars, lied about his weight, or stiffed contractors

So how was he embracing Trump values?

I want to know Trump’s actual weight. I am a Girther.

[Docreed2003]

8. ...

[FakeNoose]

21. I love this gif!

I'm probably going to borrow it.

[Docreed2003]

23. Have at it! I love it too!

[Dave Starsky]

46. Ha ha! That GIF is hilarious.

I'm afraid I'm going to have repurpose that.

[Docreed2003]

47. Enjoy! Glad I could share it!!

I got it from giphy so it’s not mine! Happy to share the love, lol!!

[aggiesal]

9. ROFL

How do they expect to get away with this nonsense?

[rurallib]

14. How do they expect to get away with this nonsense?

corporate media

[SergeStorms]

17. Dumber than dirt.....

supporters.

[concreteblue]

40. "How do they expect to get away with this nonsense? "

Because most CONNEDservatives surrendered their critical thinking to tribalism years ago. Oh, and the large majority of them are sub 100 IQ doorknobs.

[0rganism]

10. i wonder what % Americans will believe THAT?

30%? 40%? more? dunno, but it sure looks like an obviously transparent spin to prop up the Trump ego after he fucking campaigned publicly for another Losing Candidate.

[NewJeffCT]

34. Considering that 18% believed Trump

when he and Spicer said that Trump had the biggest inauguration ever, I would guess at least 25-30% will believe it.

[Achilleaze]

13. republican lies lies lies are dangerous for Americans

republicans: you and your ignoble leader, Dirty Donnie your republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, had best stop lying to Americans. Or just like the Americans in PA, we will kick your lying treasonous butts out of the House, the Senate, and the White House.

Stop lying to Americans.

[SergeStorms]

15. Well, that's some spin there.....

that's enough spin to counter the earth's rotation, I believe! Better check the gravitational pull here on earth, the Republicans are trying to destroy the planet all at once, instead of piecemeal like they've been doing.

That goes down in the history books, folks!

The sad thing is the Trumptards will actually believe that bullshit.

[3catwoman3]

35. I am dizzy just...

...reading it.

[Javaman]

16. spinning shit is still shit. LOL nt

[Vinca]

18. Well, I guess that's a better excuse than Saccone had a porn mustache.

[world wide wally]

19. For real?

They can actually say this shit and not be laughed out of the country?

[MBS]

24. Charlie Pierce dispatches this specious argument nicely:

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a19430719/conor-lamb-pennsylvania-18th/

. . .Nevertheless, Lamb’s razorish victory on Tuesday night is another signifying moment in what has become a year of them now. It doesn’t matter if Lamb was running for Congress in a congressional district that is in some senses now largely imaginary. It doesn’t matter if he was running in Brigadoon. Lamb is another Democrat who beat another Republican in an electoral district that the Democrat had no business carrying. Or conversely, this was the last chance the Republicans had to win on an electoral map so ludicrously gerrymandered that the state supreme court blew it up and took on itself the job of redrawing the map.

This was the last gasp of 10 years of successful electoral chicanery in Pennsylvania, and the Republicans couldn’t boot their candidate home even with $10 million pumped into the district from the national party and from its vast reservoir of PACs and dark money. They couldn’t organize it. They couldn’t buy it. And they couldn’t steal it. That pretty much eliminates all possible ways Republicans generally win elections these days, and bringing in the president* for a last-ditch manic episode didn’t work, either. Not even the crazy was enough. There will be some attempt now to minimize what the voters in that district did on Tuesday night. Rick Saccone was a dullard of a candidate. (True.) Conor Lamb is personally going to run Nancy Pelosi out of national politics, so he’s not really a Democratic candidate. (Please to be giving me a break.) It’s a long way until November and Things Can Still Happen. (This theory depends vitally on the president* suddenly becoming Up To The Job. Yeah, right.) This is whistling very loudly past a very large graveyard. This was a Republican district. It was built to be a Republican district in perpetuity, which is why its days are numbered right now.

. . .
In his victory speech. . . Lamb interestingly leaned very hard on thanking the support he’d received from organized labor. In fact, he talked more—and more sincerely—about unions in that speech than any candidate I’ve heard since the beginning of Bernie Sanders’ campaign back in 2015. “Side by side with us at each step of the way were the men and women in organized labor…Organized labor built Western Pennsylvania...Tonight, they have reasserted their right to have a major part in our future." This is beyond encouraging. I am sure that Lamb is going to take some positions that are going to make me crazy. . . . .But telling labor that he owes his victory largely to its effort, and actually meaning it, is a very welcome—and an extremely shrewd—move for a rookie, and it evinces the kind of awareness that he’s going to need to win re-election in whatever district he has to run in when this one disappears.

In any event, they were not the words of the candidate described in a statement by Speaker Paul Ryan. . . Ryan contended that Lamb really, sort of, almost ran as, you know, a Republican.
Keep whistling, Mr. Speaker. Lamb ran specifically on preserving and protecting the social safety-net programs you're so hell-bent on destroying. And, not for nothing, but do you know what congressional district is, theoretically, anyway, more Democratic than the one Conor Lamb won on Tuesday night? Yours. Sleep well.

[yonder]

25. Sounds like a SMiller creation - grasping at straws (still), trying to make anything stick.

Once again, an attempt to hitch their horse to any kind of success. Wouldn't surprise me to see them take credit for each days sunrise. Hell, they'd be taking credit for gravity if wasn't too "science-ey". Desperate, out of touch hypocrites with no connection to reality. How weird it must be to be a part of that WH shitshow.

[dalton99a]

27. Yeah

[dameatball]

28. So they won by firing everybody??

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. Nice try. So why didn't the guy Trump actually campaigned for,

and who explicitly endorsed Trump's policies, win?

Lame. Sad.

[Egnever]

30. That would work except

they had a candidate that embraced them completely and they lost.

[BumRushDaShow]

31. "turned what was a deficit for the Republican candidate"

No he didn't. That district has, since it was created in 2010, been reliably (R). Saccone is in the state legislature so he is a known figure.

[nwduke]

32. Living in trumpland

where facts don’t matter and if you work for this carnival barker, you are required to lie along side him. Get out and vote people. Stop these maniacs before it’s too late!

[Gamecock Lefty]

33. Nobody is pro-abortion anyway!

We are PRO-CHOICE!

[DeminPennswoods]

36. What should scare the tar out of the GOP

is that Lamb's campaign focused on economic issues instead of the socially divisive stuff and won. He got the white working class voters to vote their economic interests, which coincide with Democratic party policies.

[Fullduplexxx]

37. Then why didnt they vote for trump's candidate

[humbled_opinion]

38. How do they get away

with this level of insanity ?

[tanyev]

39. White House announces greeting all staff must use whenever they see Trump:

"Hail, Mighty Trump! Provider of all that is good and worthy!"

[vkkv]

41. White-Lie House? More like Bald Faced Lie House.. nt

[Roland99]

42. WH - "We've always been at war with Eastasia"

WH - "We've always been at war with Eurasia"


We finally have an actual administration using Newspeak.

[Bayard]

43. So even when we win

He's going to take credit for it. His ego knows no bounds.

[kacekwl]

45. President moron campaigned on many Democratic ideas

The difference is he meant none of it.