Spurned House Republican Declares ‘I Love President Trump’ Hours After Ex-President Endorsed His Opponent

Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) declared his “love” for former President Donald Trump on CNN Friday just hours after Trump endorsed Rosendale’s Senate primary opponent.

Hours after Trump endorsed Republican Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy over Rosendale and urged Rosendale to run for reelection to the House instead, CNN host Abby Phillip asked the congressman, “Donald Trump says that you can’t win. Do you worry that will kill your campaign before it even starts?”

Rosendale replied, “No, not at all. I love President Trump. He did an incredible job when he was the president, and he’s going to come back and do an incredible job next year when he takes the Oval Office, and I plan to be in the United States Senate next year to help him get that agenda through.”

“Why do you think he endorsed Sheehy over you then?” questioned Phillip, to which Rosendale said:

I find it fascinating. I just left, 30 minutes ago, the Republican convention here in Montana and listened to Tim Sheehy speak for 30 minutes and he never once mentioned President Trump nor the endorsement.

But I guess you have to figure a guy that maxed out contributions to Nikki Haley against President Trump and maxed out contributions to Tim Scott against President Trump– I don’t know, I don’t know why he would not stand up on stage with the Republicans across the state and proclaim proudly that he just received an endorsement from him.

I can tell you one thing, I certainly would have.

Rosendale went on, “Again, if I had President Trump’s endorsement, I would have been singing that from the highest mountain today.”

“I’m sure you would have,” replied Phillip.

Watch the clip above via MSNBC.