“I think the Senate is really difficult. The Senate is very difficult,” Trump said, according to one of the attendees who shared the president’s comments on condition of anonymity. “There are two senators that I can’t participate in. I can’t do that. You lose your soul if you do. I can’t help some of them. I don’t want to help some of them.”
Trump’s comments came at a closed-door meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, before the last presidential debate, according to the newspaper, in which he said he believed the Republican Party “will take back the House of Representatives.”
Jesse Hunt, a spokesman for the Republican Senate National Committee, rejected the idea that Trump does not support some Republicans in the Senate, according to the newspaper.
“The Republican-led Senate and President Trump have had a great partnership over the past four years, most notably the fact that the chamber is preparing to confirm Trump’s third nominee for the Supreme Court in the coming days,” Hunt said on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Trump’s position in opinion polls has alarmed some Republicans, who are struggling to hold onto a majority in the Senate from 53 to 47 as Democrats see their chances of securing seats rising.
Even the president sometimes seemed uninterested in rescuing his own party members. In Maine, Trump has sought to go after Republican Senator Susan Collins, who has not said whether to support the president’s re-election but has said she will oppose Amy Cooney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court because the vote on confirmation has been delayed. Against the election.
