When Will Donald Trump Hold Rallies for Winsome Sears and Jack Ciattarelli?

Two months out from Election Day and with Donald Trump’s agenda killing jobs, raising costs and ripping away health care, the Associated Press is spotlighting how Winsome Sears and Jack Ciattarelli have tied themselves up in knots over whether they want Trump to campaign alongside them in Virginia and New Jersey.

The AP reports that after initially dodging the question when asked if Sears wanted Trump to join her in Virginia, her campaign followed up twice to ultimately clarify that she would “welcome Trump on the campaign trail.”

Like Sears, Ciattarelli is “actively working with the White House to get Trump involved” and has “backed [Trump’s] budget bill and declined to name any issues where they disagree.”

No matter if or when Trump shows up, both Sears and Ciattarelli have already tied themselves directly to his deeply unpopular and harmful agenda: 

• Sears said that Trump’s deeply unpopular budget law “does so many great things” — even though it just caused three rural clinics in Virginia to close and rips health care away from 350,000 Virginians. Sears also defended Trump's attacks on Virginia’s economy and dismissed the concerns of those who lost their jobs, saying she is focused on “real issues” and doesn’t “understand why” losing your job is a “huge, huge thing.”
• Ciattarelli has refused to name a single issue where he and the president disagree. He has praised Trump’s extreme judges who overturned Roe v. Wade, shrugged off the impact of his costly and chaotic tariffs on New Jersey businesses, and championed Trump’s disastrous budget law — even saying that more than 300,000 New Jerseyans losing their health care is not “a New Jersey issue.”

“After they’ve sold out Virginia and New Jersey families to Donald Trump and embraced Trump’s deeply unpopular budget law that kills jobs, guts health care, and jacks up costs, the question remains: when will Trump have a rally for Winsome Sears or Jack Ciattarelli?” said DGA Communications Director Sam Newton.