ELECTION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump on Thursday [8-15-19] all but endorsed his former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, for a potential Senate run from New Hampshire, saying he would be ‘hard to beat’ if he ran and a “great senator” if he won. Mr. Trump first made the remarks in an interview with the New Hampshire radio host Jack Heath, amid reports that Mr. Lewandowski is seriously considering a campaign in his home state to become the Republican challenger to the Democratic incumbent, Senator Jeanne Shaheen. At a re-election campaign rally in Manchester, N.H., on Thursday night, Mr. Trump again stopped short of an outright endorsement, though he told the crowd that Mr. Lewandowski would ‘go into Washington and he’s going to have you in mind.’ He said that he had been asked whether he would support Mr. Lewandowski, whom Mr. Trump fired at the urging of his children in June 2016, but with whom he has remained close.”
–Maggie Haberman, “Trump Thinks Corey Lewandowski Would Be a ‘Fantastic’ Senator From New Hampshire,” The New York Times online, August 15, 2019