Beers, Steers and Donald Trump - Things are so bad for Republicans the GOP had to send money to Texas

Mod: I have the feeling that when the Texas GOP holds a funeral for itself, Donald won't even get invited.

Things are so bad for Republicans the GOP had to send money to Texas (Raw Story link): In 2016, then-anti-Trump Republican Sen. Linsey Graham proclaimed, “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…….and we will deserve it.” It seems his prediction is coming closer to fruition.

Financial reporting reveals that the Republican Party was forced to send $1.3 million to ruby-red Texas as the election nears. It was something spotted by ProPublica developer and ex-reporter Derek Willis Sunday.

“That’s never happened before,” he tweeted.

He noted that the Texas GOP raised $3.3 million in August, but nearly half of that came from their national parents. Texas has a Senate race this cycle, but with demographic shifts, retirements and the toxic nature of the top of the ticket, the state Republicans are struggling.

President Donald Trump has claimed that he will lead a take-back of the U.S. House this November. The truth is, there are nine congressional races that Democrats are looking to for possible pick-ups in Texas alone. A “win” for the GOP would be not losing anymore seats, but that doesn’t seem likely.

Mod: There are people who credit Trump with somehow being 'good on the economy.' Go figure that.

Trump's job losses are the worst of any American president on record (CNN link): President Donald Trump is heading into the general election with the worst jobs numbers of any president, based on records that go back to World War II. That's not going to change in the two months between now and Election Day, no matter how the economy does. The US economy is down 4.7 million jobs since January 2017 when Trump took office, according to the Labor Department.

The August jobs report showed employers added back about 1.4 million jobs, bringing the unemployment rate to 8.4%. That is still well short of what would be needed to give Trump a positive jobs record by November 3.

The only other President in the last 80 years to own an overall loss in jobs between his inauguration and the following Election Day was George W. Bush in 2004.

That was because of the so-called "jobless recovery" after the recession sparked by the dot-com bust. But the loss of 605,000 jobs through September of 2004 was a fraction of the job losses that happened under the Trump administration.

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