ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The winners of Tuesday [8-14-18] night’s Republican primaries across the country are ‘the team we want’ heading into November’s midterm elections, President Donald Trump wrote online Wednesday morning, throwing his support behind several GOP winners…Tuesday’s primaries were especially busy in Wisconsin, where Leah Vukmir bested Kevin Nicholson in a tense GOP primary to unseat first-term Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, while Gov. Scott Walker cruised to the Republican nomination in his reelection campaign. In southeast corner of the state, Bryan Steil won the GOP nomination in Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District, the seat House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) will vacate at the end of the year. On Twitter, Trump congratulated Vukmir on her ‘great win’ and threw in a dig at Baldwin, writing that the GOP Senate nominee will ‘make a fantastic Senator after winning in November against someone who has done very little.’ Of Steil, who will face Democrat Randy Bryce in November’s election, the president wrote that he ‘will be replacing a great guy in Paul Ryan, and your win in November will make the entire State of Wisconsin very proud.'”
–Stephanie Murray, “Trump touts GOP primary victors as ‘the team we want’ for midterms,” Politico, August 15, 2018 10:16 am