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Faso points back at Trump

Dec 01, 2018 12:34 am
Dan Freedman in the Albany Times Union reports that Rep. John Faso (R-Kinderhook) is pointing fingers back at President Donald Trump for his election loss to Democrat Antonio Delgado. Two days after the election, Trump named Faso among defeated Republicans who, he claimed, lost because they did not sufficiently back his agenda. “Those are some of the people that, you know, decided for their own reason not to embrace, whether it's me or what we stand for,” Trump said Nov. 7 at the White House about Faso and other unseated Republicans. Faso calls that a, “singularly an ungracious statement.... He was a decidedly negative factor in my race and races across the country where we lost the House.... I think it’s fair to say his prospects in 2020 are very uncertain,” he said. Negative positions on Trump generated Democratic voter enthusiasm and campaign-donation dollars against him, Faso says, and warns other Republicans are in danger in 2020. “A lot of Republican leaders have their heads in the sand about those warning signs,” he said. Read the full story in the Albany Times Union.