"Boston Herald" declare : Donald Trump bashing pays off in Q1

U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, one of the most vocal Trump foils in the state's congressional delegation, raised more than $475,000 last quarter in his best showing since taking office in 2015. Bay State lawmakers are reaping the benefits of their political warfare against President Trump, pocketing hefty donations in a non-election year that is giving them an anti-Trump bump. Warren released some information on her fundraising last week, but filings for her and Sen. Edward Markey had not been posted publicly as of yesterday. "A lot of what President Trump has proposed would be bad for Massachusetts," Rubin said, "so a lot of people inside Massachusetts are looking to their elected officials stand up on those issues." "Everywhere I go, the first thing people ask me is, 'Seth, what can I do?' " Moulton said in a statement to the Herald.


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There's no sign Donald Trump can win a campaign for anyone not named Donald Trump

Republican Ron Estes won the race in Kansas last week, replacing Mike Pompeo, whom Trump chose to run the CIA. There's little evidence that Trump knows how to sell anyone politically except for himself — a challenge that his predecessor also faced. Donald Trump eats a pork chop on a stick while campaigning at the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 15, 2015, in Des Moines. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)From the very first day of the very first voting in the 2016 primary process, it was apparent that Donald Trump's political success would depend far more on his ability to rile up supporters than on traditional political tools. The weekend before the election, instead of heading to Kansas and holding a get-out-the-vote rally for his party's nominee, he was at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida — and his nearby golf course.