It is not typical for candidates themselves to go to the spin room after a debate. Instead, candidates have surrogates on location to speak to reporters after the event.
But Trump, being Trump, limped into the spin room like he’d been beaten by an alpha-dog, as if he didn’t trust his surrogates to spin his debate performance into a bigly win.
Trump spoke with reporters there, seeking to dismiss questions about his debate performance, and spin himself into a fantasy winner.
Former Republican Tim Miller, who works for The Bulwark and is a commentator for MSNBC, said, “When it comes to spin rooms, there is one unimpeachable truism that political hacks of all stripes can agree on: A winning candidate needn’t show up there.”
Trump did what he didn’t trust his surrogates to do, then left for the comfort of Sean Hannity’s spin zone.
“I just felt I wanted to,” Trump told Hannity of why he visited the spin room. “I was very happy with the result.”
The….. former president’s….. final post of the night came in at 1:44a.m.
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