Donald Trump can’t stop talking about Ohio Sen. Jon Husted. The Republican incumbent, who polls show is trailing former Sen. Sherrod Brown, has drawn the attention of President Donald Trump, not for his legislative record or competence at his job.
Donald Trump seems to be lusting after Husted.
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Trump said at a rally in Kentucky:
Stand aside, and I said, “Please make it quick,” because a lot of times the audience doesn’t want to hear from certain people. Look at the crowds we have. And he came up, and he was talking very nicely, and I stood right over here, and I examined his ass. I never did that be- No, I never did that with a man before. I examined his ass, and then I looked at his shoulders, I looked at his feet. I looked at his hand, I looked at his jawline, studying. He’s got a jawline.
This is a… You would be very unfortunate if you picked a fight with him at a bar someday. You wanna… Give me that seat. No, you’re not gonna give you the seat. But, uh, I then patted him on the shoulder, and it was like a piece of steel. I sorta… I’m still recovering, my hand. I was like… And I explained it to the crowd. I said, “This is unbelievable.” And you know, he’s picked up, like, nine or ten points since I talked about that.
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Jon Husted hasn’t picked up nine or ten points in the polls since Trump started whatever weird thing is going on here.
This was just one of Trump’s “special moments” in the Bluegrass State.