A.B. Stoddard: ‘Not Really Appropriate’ or ‘Politically Useful’ for Trump to Shame McConnell on Twitter

‘So this idea of having an open fight when the president could have easily picked up the phone — ‘

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STODDARD: "That’s right. No one is blaming president Trump for the fact that the Republican Congress promises for seven years and couldn’t get their act together to find consensus and come up with something. It was never going to be a repeal obviously. It was going to be called repeal and replace. It was a reform of the existing law. They couldn’t get it over the finish line. For that, he’s been openly critical of them. It’s not really appropriate or politically useful for president Trump to be shaming the Senate Republican leader on Twitter and turning his supporters against him. They have an incredible load ahead. Really, really big deadlines that they’re going to fight very hard over. So this idea of having an open fight when the president could have easily picked up the phone and said Mitch, I don’t appreciate you saying I was a neophyte at your Rotary Club. It call it a mistake."

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