by Adam Shaw23 Sep 2017
Trump Gives Tortured Endorsement of Luther Strange in Alabama: ‘I Might Have Made a Mistake’Strange, the establishment favorite in the Alabama Senate primary, is
trailing in multiple polls to conservative opponent Judge Roy Moore and has clung to Trump’s endorsement as he seeks to sell himself as a candidate who will help drain the swamp and help Trump pass his agenda in Congress.
But while Trump praised Strange as a “real fighter and a real good guy” and a “tough cookie” who “doesn’t deal and kowtow to anyone,”
Trump also admitted he may have made a mistake getting involved in the race.
“We have to be loyal in life,” Trump said. “There is something called loyalty, and I might have made a mistake and
I’ll be honest, I might have made a mistake.”
In another blow for Strange, Trump mulled the possibility of a Moore victory and said he would campaign for Moore, as well, if he were to win the primary.
“By the way, both good men and you know what, I told Luther …
if his opponent wins, I’m going to be here campaigning like hell for him,” he said to applause from the crowd, although he later argued that while he believed Strange could win the general election, Moore could not.
He also noted that Strange had been harmed by being appointed to succeed Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
“The fact that he was appointed hurt him,” Trump said.
Trump also seemed to be unaware of many aspects of the candidate he was backing. For instance,
he repeatedly distanced Strange from the unpopular Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY.)
“He’s not a friend of Mitch McConnell. … He doesn’t know him; he just got [to the Senate],” Trump told the crowd.
However, as Breitbart News has reported,
the McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund Super PAC has pumped millions into the Republican primary to help Strange win.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/09/23/trump-gives-tortured-endorsement-luther-strange-alabama-might-made-mistake/
