Donald Trump begins making excuses for why he’s going to lose

| 12:20 am EDT November 3, 2018
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Four days until election day, and Donald Trump is already starting to wave the white flag. Tonight Trump began laying the groundwork for his party coming out on the wrong end of the election, and he began laying out excuses for why it’s not going to be his fault. Trump’s most prominent excuse is rather telling.

During his hate rally on Friday night in West Virginia, Donald Trump said that the Democrats might “squeak it by” and take control of the House, because “they got a lot of races” and – get this – “I can’t go everywhere.” So there it is. Trump is apparently being told by his advisers that he’s going to lose the House, and so he’s rationalizing by telling himself that it only happened because he didn’t have time to go campaign for all of them. This is remarkable.

First, there is no statistical evidence that Donald Trump’s rallies are helping any of the Republican candidates in those districts or states. We’ve checked; the polls never do improve in the wake of Trump’s rallies. Some of the candidates he’s gone all-out for, such as Roy Moore, appear to have lost partly because of Trump’s rallies. But nevermind any of those facts, because in Trump’s deluded mind, his pointless rallies magically produce the intended results.

Second, it’s a big deal that Donald Trump is already giving up on the House. It means the Resistance has a real opportunity to get out the vote and make it happen. It’s still difficult to figure out how the Senate results will go, but again, these things are decided by the voters who show up – and Trump is already starting to give up hope.