President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the continuing government shutdown was to blame for the large Democratic victories in Tuesday’s New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections, while arguing that voters did not reject him personally.

Speaking at a breakfast of Senate Republicans, Trump, citing unidentified “pollsters,” called the government shutdown a “big factor, negative for the Republicans.”

Trump also noted that he wasn’t on the ballot, suggesting that Republican voters turn out in larger numbers to vote for him, but not necessarily for other Republican candidates.

Speaking later Wednesday in Miami at the America Business Forum, Trump continued to rail against New York City and Democrats for electing a “communist” to the mayor’s office. He suggested that the victory by Zo

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