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Many allies of President Trump rushed to explain away incumbent Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin’s (R) loss to Democratic candidate Andy Beshear as an anomaly, including Fox News host Laura Ingraham who declared it an example of “The power of Donald Trump” and “very good news for Republicans.”
While other GOP veterans expressed alarm about the Republican party’s failure in a state where the president won by nearly 30 percentage points in 2016 and where he just campaigned for Bevin this week, Ingraham had a very different take on Tuesday night’s edition of Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle.
“We had Matt Bevin, who had about a 32% approval rating back in July, Trump comes into town, gets this thing tied up at 49-49,” Ingraham told viewers, adding that without Trump’s last-minute visit to the state, “this race would have been a 10 point race for the Democrat.”
Just a day before the election, Trump told a rally crowd in Lexington, Kentucky, that a Bevin loss would “send a really bad message.”
“You’re sending that big message to the rest of the country, it’s so important, you got to get your friends, you got to vote. Because if you lose it sends a really bad message. And they will build it up,” he told the crowd. “You can’t let that happen to me.”
“If you lose [the governor’s seat] it sends a really bad message…there gonna say Trump suffered the greatest defeat in the history of the world, this was the greatest…YOU CAN’T LET THAT HAPPEN TO ME!”
Whoopsie. ?#ElectionResults2019 pic.twitter.com/OGyqPSPcPs
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) November 6, 2019
Ingraham acknowledged that the Democratic takeover of the Virginia state legislature was “terrible” for Republicans, but argued that “in the state of Kentucky, we had a very unpopular governor,” but that “Trump comes in and he made this race as competitive as you can possibly make it.”
“That is the power of Donald Trump,” Ingraham declared, adding that “anyone thinking anything differently tonight isn’t being honest with the way they electoral map works, or what happened down-ballot.”
Citing those down-ballot victories, Ingraham claimed that “this is all very good news for Republicans, but you know, Democrats are going to celebrate… anytime a Republican governor goes down.”
Laura Ingraham’s take on the Kentucky elections must be seen to be believed: “That is the power of Donald Trump… This is all very good news for Republicans.” pic.twitter.com/EYbB9hp4FE
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) November 6, 2019
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