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Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie said Friday that he wasn’t expecting to be endorsed by President Donald Trump on Twitter on Thursday night, but he doesn’t see it as newsworthy.

Gillespie said that when he saw Trump’s statement of support pop up on his phone, his first thought was “my ads must be running in D.C.”

“I wasn’t aware that the president was going to tweet. But I’m not surprised that the Republican president is supportive of the Republican nominee for governor of the commonwealth of Virginia,” Gillespie said on a press call in which he and the rest of the GOP ticket announced an endorsement from the Virginia Fraternal Order of Police.

The surprise tweet at 9:58 p.m. — in which the president said Democratic nominee Ralph Northam is “fighting for the violent MS-13 killer gangs & sanctuary cities” and urged his followers to vote for Gillespie — was the latest Trump-related conundrum Gillespie has had to navigate.