Whip it good? Not exactly, say Democrats who watched the GOP speaker fight
"I never understood the mindset of walking into an election saying you’re going to lose it," the aide added.
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"I never understood the mindset of walking into an election saying you’re going to lose it," the aide added.
He won one of the first congressional contests after Donald Trump took the White House, a special election in a part of western Pennsylvania that the president had carried by nearly 20 points.
But by the time he walked out of the House chamber, the placemats were all set for his 2020 re-election campaign.
“We must choose between greatness or gridlock, results or resistance, vision or vengeance, incredible progress or pointless destruction,” he said. “Tonight, I ask you to choose greatness.”