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The DC GOP is calling 2016 its “most successful election in over a decade” with nary a mention of Republican victories like, say, the presidency or the Senate.

A press release utterly ignores Donald Trump, and instead gives three other reasons why it’s feeling good today.

The first is an increase in votes for its at-large council candidate, Carolina Celnik, as compared to the previous Republican nominee. That’s true. Mark Morgan, who ran on the GOP at-large ticket in 2014, received 9,947 votes to Celnik’s 26,530.

But Celnik received about a thousand fewer votes than the 2012 Republican candidate, Mary Brooks Beatty. Beatty ended up with 7 percent of the total vote, whereas Celnik didn’t clear 5 percent.

As expected, Democrat Robert White and incumbent Independent David Grosso won the two open At-large seats (one of which is reserved for a non-Democrat).

The second is GOP’s Ashley Carter beating out incumbent Mary Lord to become the new At-large State Board of Education member, the first Republican in D.C. to win in that race city-wide, despite some bizarre mud-flinging.

Additionally, the DC GOP’s “cursory analysis of Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) candidates indicates an increase in the number of elected Republicans by 20-30 percent.”

Party chairman José Cunningham said in the release that “over the last two years the DC GOP invested considerable time recruiting candidates and rebuilding our campaign infrastructure.” However, the party didn’t field candidates in any of the four Ward races—2, 4, 7, or 8—or for U.S. House delegate or representative.

We’ve reached out to DC GOP for comment and will update if we hear back. DC GOP executive director Robert Mara told WAMU that all of the new Republicans sure to come with the Trump administration will influence future local elections.

President-elect Donald Trump only managed to eke out 4 percent of the vote, the lowest in the country (not that it mattered). Trump didn’t win any of 19 D.C. delegates in the Republican primary.