DEMS/ELECTION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump assailed a vulnerable Democrat, attacked those in his own administration seeking to undermine his agenda and warned supporters that his own impeachment is at stake in November’s midterm elections at a rally Thursday [9-6-18] night in Montana. Addressing a senior administration official’s anonymous, critical op-ed in The New York Times, Trump claimed it had ‘backfired’…In a typical line of attack as Trump campaigns for Republicans ahead of this year’s midterms, Trump said Democrats are the party of ‘anger and hate.’ He blasted Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, who is up for re-election this year, for releasing allegations that derailed the nomination of Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, Trump’s onetime personal White House physician, who was considered for veterans affairs secretary. Trump also lashed out at Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee for their aggressive questioning this week of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Trump said committee members were ‘attacking Judge Kavanaugh and looking like fools.'”
–Eric Bradner, “Trump slams ‘deep state operatives,’ vulnerable Democratic Sen. Jon Tester in Montana,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, September 6, 2018 12:11 am