Donald Trump *never* learns his lesson | CNN Politics

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TV physician Mehmet Oz finds himself in a nip-and-tuck race with rich businessman David McCormick within the battle for the Republican Senate nomination in Pennsylvania.

And his highest-profile backer has some phrases of recommendation.

“Dr. Oz should declare victory,” counseled Trump by way of a tweet fact on his Truth Social web site. “It makes it much harder for them to cheat with the ballots that they ‘just happened to find.’”

Uh, OK.

What Trump’s assertion makes clear is that he hasn’t discovered the fitting (or any) classes from the 2020 election. (And no, I’m not shocked.)

For Trump – in politics and life – notion is all that issues.

When you declare chapter, as Trump has executed, ensure everybody is aware of it’s a strategic (and sensible) transfer.

When you lose – whether or not it’s within the 2016 Iowa caucuses or the 2020 basic election – insist that you just, actually, received. Tell everybody you received sufficient instances, they usually would possibly begin to imagine it. (Remember that polls present a transparent majority of Republican voters now say that Joe Biden didn’t win the 2020 election honest and sq..)

Oz, at the least to this point, hasn’t taken Trump’s recommendation. “When all the votes are counted, we will win,” Oz predicted at a rally on Tuesday evening. Which isn’t the identical factor as declaring victory.

It’s unlikely we’ll know who received the GOP Senate major for at the least a number of days. “Next Tuesday, the counties will send their unofficial returns to me,” Pennsylvania Secretary of State Leigh Chapman advised CNN on Wednesday. “At that time, I’ll make a determination as to whether or not we want to move forward with the automatic recount.”

(A recount is triggered if the successful margin is lower than .5%. As of Wednesday afternoon, Oz was leading McCormick by .2%.)

Given all of that, the accountable factor to do is wait till all of the ballots are counted (or recounted) earlier than declaring victory. Which is the other of what Trump needs Oz to do.

The Point: All Trump cares about is successful – in any respect prices. Even if it undermines the general public’s religion within the political course of.