New York Daily News

Don is right on Dan

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Donald Trump is often — OK, usually — dead wrong in the impulsive missives he fires off to his 52 million Twitter followers, but Wednesday night the President got it right as he tapped out an endorsemen­t of Rep. Dan Donovan in the June 26 Republican primary.

During his three years serving Staten Island and a slice of Brooklyn in Washington, Donovan has served well as the only Republican in the city’s delegation, which has been especially important with the House under GOP control.

A former Staten Island district attorney, Donovan is everything that his challenger, Michael Grimm, is not.

Grimm did time in the House as a former congressma­n; then he did time in the big house as a former convicted federal felon. Donovan built a career enforcing the law.

Donovan is steady, honest and conservati­ve. Grimm is reckless, a liar and a bully who thinks that he can appeal to Trump backers in the party.

Sorry, bud. Trump likes winners and Grimm is a likely loser, who risks turning the seat over to the Democrats in November.

As Trump put it: “Very importantl­y, @RepDanDono­van will win for the Republican­s in November . . . and his opponent will not. Remember Alabama.”

In Alabama, Republican­s gave their Senate nomination to Roy Moore, a credibly accused pedophile, who proceeded to lose a reliably Republican seat. Staten Islanders and Brooklynit­es would be making the same mistake with Grimm. Heed Trump.

Vote for Donovan.

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