Donald Trump Has The Most Trump Reaction To Defeat Of His Endorsed Candidate

A GOP congressional candidate with former President Donald Trump ’s “complete and total endorsement” lost a Republican runoff in a House special election in Texas on Tuesday.

Trump, never at a loss for falsehoods, tried to spin Susan Wright’s defeat to state Rep. Jake Ellzey as a win.

“This is not a loss, again, I don’t want to claim it is a loss, this was a win,” the former president with a penchant for lying about election results (most notably his own 2020 defeat to President Joe Biden ) told Axios on Wednesday.

“The big thing is, we had two very good people running that were both Republicans . That was the win,” Trump added of the race for the open seat of Wright’s late husband, Rep. Ron Wright (R-Texas), who died in February after contracting the coronavirus.

Trump had repeatedly campaigned for Wright with a robocall, statements and a telephone rally, reported The Texas Tribune .