WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump sounded the alarm on the eve of the special election runoff for a state Senate seat in Texas.
"Make a plan to GET OUT AND VOTE," Trump wrote in a Friday, Jan. 30 post on Truth Social, urging his supporters to vote for the "phenomenal" Republican nominee, Leigh Wambsganss to "KEEP TEXAS RED!"
But two days later ‒ after the Democrat, Taylor Rehmet, trounced the Republican candidate in reliably red Senate District 9 by 14 percentage points ‒ the president acted like he didn't know there was a race.
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"I didn't hear about it. Somebody ran, where?" Trump said on Feb. 1 when asked for his reaction. "I'm not involved in that. That's a local Texas race."
