.MaddowBlog: President loses a talking point as Trump-backed Republicans lose
Voters rebuffed President Donald Trump and nominated two Republicans he opposed to House seats from North Carolina and Kentucky on Tuesday.
In North Carolina's 11th congressional district -- a seat that former Rep. Mark Meadows held before becoming the White House chief of staff -- Trump backed GOP activist Lynda Bennett. Local Republicans didn't care, and instead nominated Madison Cawthorn, a 24-year-old motivational speaker. Meanwhile, in Kentucky's 4th congressional district, the president wanted GOP voters to oust incumbent Rep. Thomas Massie -- Trumpa"third-rate grandstander" whom the president wants to"throw out" of the Republican Party -- but the congressman cruised to an easy victory yesterday.
To be sure, I'd caution against over-interpreting the results, and it'd be a stretch to suggest that the GOP's rank-and-file are abandoning Trump based on these primary outcomes. But the president and his allies made quite a fuss about his"undefeated" record in these contests, pointing to his streak as proof of"the strength of and support for the president's agenda across the country." The idea, evidently, was to suggest that Trump's control over Republican politics was, for all intents and purposes, complete.
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