President Donald Trump said Thursday that Republican senators who do not support him will lose their upcoming election.
Trump spoke Thursday morning with Maria Bartiromo during her Morning with Maria shown on Fox Business Network. He told Bartiromo that he believes Republicans will regain control of the House of Representatives, which lost the party to the Democrats in 2018. However, he said it would be harder for his party to retain control of the House of Representatives if some members who had recently been fired from him did not drive behind him quickly.
“We are fighting very hard in the Senate,” Trump told Bartiromo. “I’ll be honest, the Senate is tough. We have a few people who are not as supportive of Trump as they should be, and those people will lose their election.”
The issue where the party has to deal with retaining its majority in the House of Representatives has been with members trying to be “fun,” the president said. He did not specify which senators he referred to.
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NICHOLAS KAMM
“You have a few people who want to be nice, and those people are going to lose their election,” Trump said.
Trump’s remarks came at a time when a handful of Republican senators appear to be facing a novella for an upcoming battle to win re-election. Their credentials have been increased by increasing levels of support for groups such as The Lincoln Project, funded by conservatives who throw their support behind Democratic candidates in competitive national races.
One of the senators who has received special attention in recent weeks from The Lincoln Project is Maine Senator Susan Collins. For the past four years, Collins has repeatedly talked about her support for the president.
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Although she remarkably joined two other Republicans in voting against her party’s plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act in 2017, and thus defeated the attempt, she nevertheless supported Brett Kavanaugh’s controversial nomination the following year.
The Lincoln Project recently posted $ 1 million in campaign ads attacking Collins’ support for Trump and also recently released campaign videos supporting Steve Bullock, who is running against quoting Montana Senator Steve Daines, and Al Gross , who is running against local Senator Dan of Alaska Sullivan.
Four other senators will face re-election bids in November.
In Arizona, Senator Martha McSally is up against retired astronaut and Navy veteran Mark Kelly. In Colorado, Senator Cory Gardner faces former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper; in North Carolina, Senator Thom Tillis wrestles with a former state senator, Cal Cunningham; and in Iowa, Senator Joni Ernst is up against Theresa Greenfield, a city planner.
According to recent polls, each of the Senate’s Democratic rivals was in the lead in state surveys published in early August.
Newsweek reached the Republican National Committee for comment, but received no response in time for publication.
