Republican who wanted to rename highway after Trump caught erasing him off campaign site
Another Republican who spent his primary wrapping himself in Donald Trump has quietly peeled the president off his campaign website, this time in a red-leaning Florida seat.
Casey Askar, the GOP nominee in Florida's redrawn 22nd Congressional District, ran the primary as a self-styled "Trump Conservative," at one point pushing to rename part of Interstate 75 the "President Donald J. Trump Interstate." His site featured the president prominently, first reported by Politico's West Wing Playbook, which verified the changes through the Wayback Machine.
Trump made it official, and less than 24 hours after the president handed Askar his "Complete and Total Endorsement" this month, the campaign scrubbed a photo of Trump and rewrote the homepage pledge....