'On Monday night — less than 12 hours before the polls opened — Trump appeared at a rally in Lexington, Ky., to support Bevin but also made sure the crowd knew his own reputation was on the line.

“If you lose, they will say Trump suffered the greatest defeat in the history of the world,” said Trump, pointing at a bank of news cameras. “You can’t let that happen to me, and you can’t let that happen to your incredible state.”'

So, Trump made it all about himself, as usual, and in such self-aggrandizing terms (has there ever before been an off-year gubernatorial race which was characterized as "the greatest defeat in the history of the world" for a candidate who wasn't even in the race?) that one is forced to believe he is a pathological narcissist. That is, for those of us who hadn't drawn that conclusion years ago.