Why this GOP governor thinks his party got ‘worse than a butt whipping’ on Tuesday

This post was originally published on Politico.

Kevin Stitt, the outgoing Republican governor of Oklahoma, has a message for President Donald Trump: Try being nice.

“People are just kind of tired,” Stitt told POLITICO in an interview Friday morning, three days after the Republican Party suffered devastating election losses across the country and a few hours before Trump elevated Stephen Miller to be his chief of staff.

“They are just ready for something new and a change … President Trump’s policies are amazing, and he does a really good job on a lot of fronts, but the civility and then just trying to be nice to people, I think