i did not follow this race closely and don't know and cannot seem to find information on Saccone's foreign policy beliefs. Did he not give the electorate his views on foreign policy?
John Bolton endorsed Saccone. If Saccone did not discuss his foreign policy beliefs, many might wonder what is he hiding, especially if he gave no indication of his beliefs after Bolton endorsed him.
On the other hand, Libertarian Drew Gray Miller clearly
called for an end to foreign aid and foreign wars, closure of overseas military bases and bringing all troops home.
On a day when Trump throws out the only somewhat moderate in his cabinet, Rex Tillerson, nominates the bloodthirsty Iran-hating Pompeo as the head of the State Dpt., and nominates a woman who actually engaged in torture of detainees as the head of the CIA, my gut tells me a lot of people on the fence regarding Trump's policies either stayed home, voted Democrat to spite Trump's newest cabinet nominations, or voted Libertarian.
So the moral of the story
could be that people were trying to tell Trump they have had enough of this militarism and endless war. The moral of the story
could be that if Republicans want to win, they need to embrace the Libertarian faction of their party and embrace a noninterventionist foreign policy.
I doubt that Trump has the humility to consider this, but I think on a day he nominated the worst of interventionists to cabinet positions, many of the heretofore Trump electorate in PA's congressional district 18 may have been totally repulsed by these nominations and may have voted accordingly.
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