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Trump: House appears headed to Democrats

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump acknowledged at a Friday rally in West Virginia that Democrats appear poised to take control of the House.

“Could happen, could happen. Don’t worry about it,” he said. “I’ll just figure it out,” he added, saying that is how he has operated “my whole life.”

The crowd, which wasted little time yelling some of the chants that have come to define his tallies, groaned.

“You have to go out on Tuesday and vote,” he said.

A Democratic-controlled House would end GOP hopes for a second tax overhaul bill and other agenda items. The most bipartisan consensus is around an infrastructure package, but House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California on Oct. 22 expressed doubts both sides — and Trump — can agree on a final bill.

Trump showed early he spent part of Friday watching cable news networks. For instance, anchors on CNN in a late-morning bloc called the economy’s health stellar and wondered aloud why the president does not spend more time talking about that at his rallies.

He mocked the coverage but took the advice, ticking off a list of statistics about the health of the U.S. economy.

“The economy is unbelievable,” he said. Earlier in the day, Jason Furman, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama, tweeted this: “I’m not seeing anything bad in this jobs report.”

Trump was stumping for state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s Senate race.

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