Trump attacks Republican up for re-election with reference to affair

“I stressed how important it is for President Trump to rectify that situation so that trade becomes more balanced, more reciprocal and more fair, with the opportunity to have American workers be treated fairly”, Pompeo said Thursday during a joint news conference with Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

The congressman, former governor and one-time presidential aspirant was trailing a little-known state lawmaker who slammed him for his repeated criticism of President Trump, the latest sign that the most risky thing to do in the modern GOP is dare to take on the president. In a highly unusual move for a president, he had tweeted an endorsement of Arrington on Tuesday afternoon when polls were still open in SC.

“He’s MIA and nothing but trouble”, Trump continued. “He is better off in Argentina”, Trump tweeted.

Results were still coming in as he made the comments in suburban Charleston. But Sanford’s SC district is considered a safe Republican seat, meaning the outcome is unlikely to play a role in November’s battle for control of the House.

“The clouds on the horizon that we have signaled about six months ago are getting darker by the day- and, I was going to say, by the weekend”, said Christine Lagarde, the IMF Managing Director.

China and other nations should join together to counter Trump’s aggressive trade policies, the state-run China Daily said on Friday, repeating past threats to retaliate in kind.

‘I’m not looking for disagreement with the administration, ‘ Sanford told Politico.

With 99 percent of the vote tallied, Arrington had 50.6 percent of the vote – a figure that would cinch the nomination outright.

Sanford, a consistent critic of Trump from within the president’s own party, lost to state legislator Katie Arrington. The governor has faced questions over corruption in state government.

Democrat Abigail Spanberger, a former Central Intelligence Agency operative, won her primary in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District to face incumbent Rep. David Brat in the fall.

Trump congratulated Corey Stewart, his onetime Virginia campaign chairman and an immigration hardliner, for winning a GOP primary that will put him against incumbent Democratic Sen. Now that he’s lost, his words also serve as a call for his fellow anti-Trump GOPers to keep fighting the good fight.

Stewart is an outspoken defender of Confederate symbolism. Stewart called efforts to remove the monuments “an attempt to destroy traditional America”.

With 16 percent of the vote in for South Carolina’s 1st District, both incumbent Mark Sanford and challenger Katie Arrington remain almost tied, with the AP giving both candidates 48 percent.

Democrats in two other districts they hope to retake nominated women: Abigail Spanberger in central Virginia and Elaine Luria in the district that includes Virginia Beach. Earlier this year at the party convention, journalist Leslie Cockburn won the nomination in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District. She had the endorsement of Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam.

She will face Democratic challenger Joe Cunningham in the heavily Republican district this November.

In another big Virginia race, Republican Corey Stewart – once a state chairman to Trump’s presidential campaign who was sacked for protesting the Republican National Committee – won the Republican primary to face Democratic Sen.

Tim Kaine and choosing nominees in several competitive House races, Nevada and North Dakota choosing their Senate candidates and ME for the first time trying – and voting on whether to keep – a new voting system in which voters rank their preferences, rather than only selecting one. The Democrats were sorting out a seven-way contest, with every candidate promising to end Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s blockade of Medicaid expansion.