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– President Trump was a vocal supporter of Alabama's Sen. Luther Strange during the Republican's primary campaign—which is something he apparently wanted to forget about as soon as Strange was defeated. After Strange lost the race to former state Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore on Tuesday, Trump started deleting his pro-Strange tweets, MSN reports. "Big election tomorrow in the Great State of Alabama. Vote for Senator Luther Strange, tough on crime & border — will never let you down!" read one of the deleted tweets, which were preserved by ProPublica. "Luther Strange has been shooting up in the Alabama polls since my endorsement. Finish the job - vote today for 'Big Luther,'" read another deleted tweet. Older pro-Strange tweets from Trump, who appeared at a Strange campaign rally Friday, were left intact, the Hill reports. Before Strange's loss, Trump-backed candidates had been 5-0 in special elections during his presidency, TPM notes. "Congratulations to Roy Moore on his Republican Primary win in Alabama," Trump tweeted Tuesday night. "Luther Strange started way back & ran a good race." (With Steve Bannon among Moore's supporters, the race was likened to a Republican "civil war.")


assistant: In spite of his polarizing image and sagging approval ratings, President Trump has yet to suffer a major loss at the ballot box. That may change on Tuesday — because Trump embraced the establishment. 
  
 Trump called into the “Rick & Bubba Show” in Alabama on Monday morning to talk up appointed Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL), who’s facing off against hardline conservative and former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore (R) in Tuesday’s primary to fill out the Senate term of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. 
  
 “I’m 5-0 in these races. And I want to keep it, I want to make it 6-0,” Trump bragged about his special election record since becoming president. “He is a good man. We can’t lose him.” 
  
 But it looks like that streak’s about to end. Every public survey of the campaign has found Moore in the lead, including a trio of polls released in recent days that show him with a double-digit edge. And while most strategists in the state think the contest is a bit closer than that and say Trump has helped Strange close that gap some in the race’s home stretch — “The race is close, it’s been closing,” Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), a Strange backer, told TPM on Monday — most also think that Moore is the odds-on favorite to win on Tuesday. 
  
 “The conversation in Alabama today is what’s the margin of the Moore victory going to be, not who’s going to win,” said one Alabama GOP strategist who’s backing Strange in the race. “Trump is not a pied piper who is going to lead people blindly down a path.” 
  
  
  
 Strange has been dogged from the start by how he got the appointment in the first place. He was given the job by disgraced then-Gov. Robert Bentley (R), who had to resign shortly afterwards amidst a sex scandal. Strange had been the state’s attorney general at the time and in charge of investigating Bentley, and many see the appointment as fishy — something Trump himself admitted on Monday. 
  
 “Because he was appointed by a little bit of a controversial guy I guess as I understand it, now it makes the race tough,” he said, shortly after blaming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) unpopularity as hurting his candidate in the race. 
  
 And while Trump came in to help Strange in a Friday rally, he admitted during that speech that “I might have made a mistake” politically in backing the underdog in the race. 
  
 It’s clear the race hasn’t been Trump’s overriding focus — he twice referred to Moore as “Ray,” not Roy, in his Monday interview, and he spent almost as much time in his Alabama rally attacking NFL players who dared kneel during the national anthem as promoting Strange (and much more time in subsequent days). But a loss there will show the limits of his ability to move base conservatives, especially when he gets crossways with them. 
  
 While Trump’s endorsement has likely kept Strange in the race at all, Moore has benefitted from the backing of a constellation of big-name Trump supporters, from Breitbart head and former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) to Housing & Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson to Fox News host Sean Hannity. 
  
 They jumped on the bandwagon, but Moore has led the race from the start — equally because of his rabid base following and because of Strange’s issues. 
  
 And while whoever wins the primary will be the heavy favorite to replace Sessions, Democrats haven’t completely ruled out helping former State Attorney Doug Jones in the general election. Former Vice President Joe Biden is heading to the state to help his old friend, and national Democrats are taking a wait-and-see approach on whether he might be competitive against Moore given his penchant for comments that are polarizing even in Alabama. 
  
 “The [National Republican Senatorial Committee] might have to spend money to protect this seat, which is crazy in my mind,” said Alabama GOP strategist Chris Brown, who ran another candidate’s campaign in the first round of the primary and is reluctantly voting for Strange. “This is not going to be a race we’ll stop talking about after this week.” ||||| Jay Weber of New Jersey, who is running for Congress against a person who wants to do nothing more than raise taxes to the maximum limit, is looking good. A Harvard graduate and the father of seven, Jay wants to substantially reduce taxes, so important for New Jersey-I will help! ||||| © Provided by The Hill Trump deletes tweets backing Strange after primary loss 
  
 President Trump on Tuesday began deleting his tweets supporting Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.) in Alabama's Senate primary after Strange lost the race to former state Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore. 
  
 Trump had tweeted about Strange several times in the days leading up to the primary, including the day of, but started to delete the tweets Tuesday night. 
  
 Those deleted tweets included those he sent the night before the election and the day of the race. A project from ProPublica documents the deleted tweets. 
  
 "Big election tomorrow in the Great State of Alabama. Vote for Senator Luther Strange, tough on crime & border - will never let you down!" read one of the deleted tweets. 
  
 Trump is erasing his support of Luther after his loss tonight https://t.co/ee9r7FbOvhpic.twitter.com/GsyrPo8tJC - Jon Passantino (@passantino) September 27, 2017 
  
 Older Trump tweets backing Strange remained live as of Tuesday evening. 
  
 Trump tweeted congratulations to Moore on Tuesday night. The president had promised to back Moore if he won the race. 
  
 Congratulations to Roy Moore on his Republican Primary win in Alabama. Luther Strange started way back & ran a good race. Roy, WIN in Dec! - Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 27, 2017 
  
 Strange's loss was also Trump's first electoral defeat since taking office. 
  
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