Posted on 05/17/2023 8:23:27 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
“Let’s remember in 2022 Trump endorsed a bunch of candidates in the primaries only to have many of them lose in the general election.”
Trump endorsed 151 House candidates in 2020, 119 won.
Trump endorsed 31 Senate candidates, 25 won.
I don’t know how many of those seats were stolen by democrats. Also, some of the blue state endorsements were futile from the start.
I have acknowledged that, my point was places like US Senate would look a lot different if Trump endorsed candidates like Blake Masters, Dr. Oz, and Herschel Walker had one or better candidates had run for office
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/trumps-general-election-endorsements-fared-midterms (November 14, 2022)
Throughout the primaries, Trump touted a roughly 92% success record with his endorsements and crowed about it from time to time on the campaign trail. With his strong pull within conservative circles well known, Trump's stamp of approval was put to the general election test Tuesday night.
"I had such great success on Endorsements, perhaps success like no one has had before, both for Republican Nominations and the General Election itself, and I continue to get Fake News, RINO, and Radical Left criticism, but seldom congratulations or praise. That’s the way it is, and that’s the way it will always be," Trump bemoaned on his Truth Social platform Friday.
So far, Trump appears on track for a roughly 89% success rate with his general election picks, having eked out 233 victories and 28 losses with about seven races outstanding. This is based on the Washington Examiner's tally of 268 endorsements.
“Trump endorsed 151 House candidates in 2020, 119 won.”
And 112 of those 119 were in 100% utterly safe districts, with incumbents who were facing little or no viable opposition in either the primary or general elections.
With only a small handful of idiotic exceptions (PA Senate and WI Governor come to mind) Trump endorsed the best candidates possible in the Governor and Senate elections.
But his all-important “winning percentage” was heavily padded with irrelevancies — House incumbents who would easily have won in their heavily Republican districts in November even if the wannabe Kingmaker never mentioned their names even once.
As far as the races where his endorsement did make a difference, that endorsement was often (but hardly always) as good as gold — in the PRIMARY election.
In a tough closely-contested general election it is often not a net positive at all, though the glue-sniffers who blindly insist that EVERY election which is lost happened ONLY due to fraud and nothing else will disagree.
One of those Trump endorsements is still fighting the election fraud in her home swamp of Arizona.
Who knew the swamp sometimes looks like a desert
Don’t hold your breath for any court to overturn the results of an election, at best which is highly unlikely, they might order a new election, but Kari Lake and Abe Hamadeh are not going to be installed as winners by a court order.
He;s a GREAT GUY!!! CONGRATS!!
AMEN!!!!
That’ll give the McCain clan a nice warm fuzzy feeling..
Can you name another election that was overturned by a court nearly a year after the original election and another person was installed as the winner.
It might have happened but I can’t remember another one.
The only way Kari Lake and/or Abe Hamadeh will ever get into office will be thru another election.
Trump endorsements have a bad track record in competitive general elections. I wish this guy luck against the democrat incumbent
“With only a small handful of idiotic exceptions (PA Senate and WI Governor come to mind) Trump endorsed the best candidates possible in the Governor and Senate elections.”
best candidates possible???
There were only 32 Senate races. He endorsed in all of them.
His record still beats your boy DeSantis.
I just mentioned that the McCain clan will be happy that another election has to be run..
Because it would offer another swamp opportunity..
Especially if the DeSantis supporters are as anti-Trump as the Trump supporters are anti-Desantis. That said, I’m voting for the guy running against the current occupier of the White House.
Kentucky is red but Kentucky has a notorious streak of voting for Democrat governors. Since 1970 there have been only two Republican governors elected, Ernie Fletcher who was a Bush chamber half-wit and Bevin who actually did a lot of good but got down in the mud with the teachers union idiots which hurt him.
Kentucky elected the current thug Beshear with the support of the teachers unions despite the fact Beshear’s daddy was the governor who stole all their money from their retirement fund to operate the government while in office, talk about dumb as a fence post, the teachers of Kentucky are that dumb.
Don’t be surprised if the Jr king andy wins re-election. He shouldn’t but don’t be surprised.
No, that is not true. It just shows that the GOPe will back Democrats to keep their gravy train going and we have to realize this to move forward.
What is does show is that for Republicans to win in a lot of cases, you have to work with the entire Republican Party, not just the MAGA wing of the party and screw everyone else.
Georgia is the perfect example, Kemp and Raffensberger both won easily and the Trump endorsed candidate lost in 2022.
So the GOPe can screw us at will but we have to kiss their a$$. No thanks!
I would say, it’s not an all or nothing proposition, the US Senate would look a lot different right now if we didn’t have 2 Democratic Senators from Georgia.
The infighting between the Trump loyalists and the Georgia Establishment lost 3 Senate races in two years.
*Don’t be surprised if the Jr king andy wins re-election. He shouldn’t but don’t be surprised.*
The US not a racist country. Whites elected Obama. Guilt complex. Didn’t work. He went in the other direction regarding race.
We could do the same thing in Ky. and it would work in the opposite(more positive) direction. All Republicans have to do is show up. Not counting on it. It will allow the rats to get away with more charges of racism. Will we lever earn? Same with the black fella in N.C. This will be on republican voters. We can always surprise ourselves.
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