President Donald Trump congratulated Democrats for doing “a good job” after the party inflicted devastating defeats on his Republican allies, winning back both houses of Congress and picking up several governors’ mansions.
But the president, in an interview with Fox News early Wednesday morning, didn’t take responsibility for a long night of GOP defeats, including many in what had been considered reliably conservatives states.
Asked if he made a mistake in choosing Senate candidates Ken Paxton in Texas and Darline Graham in South Carolina, who both lost, Trump dismissed the notion. Paxton defeated Cornyn in the Republican primary after getting Trump’s endorsement.
He said that he considered Senator John Cornyn, the Republican incumbent in Texas, “a disloyal guy.
He also alluded to the considerable clout that a president has with or without allies in control of Congress. “It’s one of the stronger powers that a president has, and they’ll send over things that are insane, and I’ll veto them. And after a couple of months of vetoes, they’ll call and they’ll say, ‘How do we get this stuff done?’”
Because of the war in Iran , and again defended the US military campaign in the Middle East as necessary to prevent the Islamic Republic from obtaining nuclear weapons, he said that high fuel prices came about.
“No matter how good the president is, you lose,” Trump said, adding that “because of the gasoline price” Americans had failed to see the economic benefits brought about by his presidency. “It’s just the way it is,” Trump said. Trump said he could work with a House and Senate run by the opposition “if the Democrats want to work with me. “It’s a power of veto ,” Trump said.
