Republican strategists believe Trump’s rally in southwestern PA last week helped drive up Democratic turnout. So keep rallying for your candidates Trump, it helps the Democrats.
They knew they weren't going to do well and are relieved it wasn't a blowout for Lamb. LOL. Pathetic. Where Trump won by +19.6 points.
The entire Trump clan campaigned for Saccone and it didn't help. Trump was checking the results last night minute by minute. This election was tailor made for the GOP with their tax cut and steel tariffs and they still couldn't pull it out.
We must take the House this November and start holding this m-fer accountable
Ominous sign for Republicans
It's a bad sign for Republicans that the 18th District race is razor-tight. President Donald Trump won there by 20 percentage points in 2016, and GOP groups pumped $10.7 million into a months-long effort to stave off an embarrassing loss there. Lamb's performance is ominous for the GOP as it heads into November's midterm elections.
Even a narrow Lamb win would signal that the GOP is in danger even in districts considered safe for Republicans, raising Democratic hopes of capturing the House and maybe the Senate in November. A Republican loss could lead to more House members retiring rather than running into headwinds in re-election bids. Democrats, meanwhile, would look to replicate Lamb's success in working-class districts with similar demographics.
Earlier in the evening, before it became clear the results would be so close, several Republican officials told CNN they were expecting Saccone to lose. Party officials were placing the blame squarely on Saccone's campaign but also on Trump's Saturday rally for the candidate, which some Republicans believe helped drive up Democratic turnout.
When the race tightened, that outlook improved, with one GOP source telling CNN's Jim Acosta: "This isn't a blowout -- for now, we'll happily take it."
A Republican official told CNN that Trump, who was raising money with GOP donors in Beverly Hills, California, had been asking for updates throughout the evening and was pleasantly surprised by the narrow margin.
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