WATCH: Did Trump help or hurt in key GOP midterm races?
President Donald Trump said Democrats “did a good job” after their midterm election wins, pointing the finger at Republican candidates and likening them to low-quality selections for voters.
But the president himself chose a lot of the candidates who ended up losing, White House correspondent Liz Landers said.
In South Carolina, after the death of Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, Trump urged the late lawmaker’s sister Darline Graham to run for the seat. She lost to Democrat pediatrician Annie Andrews. For the Senate seat in Texas, Trump backed state Attorney General Ken Paxton, a scandal-plagued Republican candidate, despite warnings that his choice would come up short in the race. Democrat Senate-elect James Talarico is now the first Democrat to win statewide office there in decades.
“Trump getting involved early on in some of these primary races may have been a negative effect for Republicans had they not just had a regular primary process where they duke it out in their own states,” she said.
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