Trump went to Alabama to support Republican Senator Luther Strange in a primary fight with alt-right flamethrower Roy Moore.
The Washington Post reported his bizarre endorsement of his candidate.
“HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — President Trump spent the first 25 minutes of a Friday night campaign rally explaining and defending his decision to endorse the Republican establishment’s pick for the Alabama Senate race.
“Then, he basically took it all back.
“I might have made a mistake. I’ll be honest, I might have made a mistake,” Trump told a crowd of several thousand gathered at the Von Braun Center that cheered much louder for him than for the candidate he was there to support, Sen. Luther Strange, who was appointed earlier this year to fill the seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
“If Strange loses a Republican primary runoff election Tuesday, the president said that the media will accuse him of being “unable to pull his candidate across the line” and cast the loss as a “total embarrassment.” Strange is polling behind rival Roy Moore, a former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice who is popular with evangelical Christians and many Trump supporters.
“And, by the way, both good men. Both good men,” the president said of the two Republican candidates. “If his opponent wins, I’m going to be here campaigning like hell for him. But, I have to say this … Luther will definitely win.”
Just to be clear, he doesn’t care who wins.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Trump does care who wins, but that only applies to him. He wants to win all the time even if he lies to make it sound like he won when he didn’t.
For instance, claiming that the 2.7 million more votes that Hillary got to win the popular vote were all illegal votes and he really won the popular vote too.
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Roy Moore has twice been removed from the state’s Supreme Court for his insistence to follow the law as he interpreted it. Just what we need in the US Senate these days. I don’t support Luther Strange either, though. I voted for Democrat candidate Doug Jones who will be running against the winner of this Republican primary runoff.
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And each time Moore has been removed or reprimanded, a majority of Alabama voters have supported him more fervently. There is a pathology in the South (and the rural North and West) that is incongruous with democratic governance. There is an irrationality, disrespect and denigration of constitutional principles that rewards candidates who reinforce it. Doug Jones is just a sideshow in that process.
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Just finished reading Hillbilly Elegy (a memoir) by J.D. Vance. Sure learned a lot about dump voters.
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Exactly stated analysis: there is definitely a pathology incongruous with democratic governance at work.
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