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President Trump's Endorsement Success Record
Ballotpedia ^ | 11/2022 | n/a

Posted on 11/09/2022 7:55:10 AM PST by redguyinabluestate

While there are seats still pending and those appear as "Won primary".

The track record so far appears to be the following:

Senate 25 candidates endorsed

5 Pending 16 Won 4 Lost

House 164 candidates endorsed

9 Pending 143 Won 12 Lost

U.S. Senate endorsements by Donald Trump, 2022
CandidateStatusOffice soughtEndorsement typeOutcome
Katie Britt (R)  source Open seat U.S. Senate AlabamaPrimary Runoff, GeneralWon general
Kelly Tshibaka (R)  source Challenger U.S. Senate AlaskaPrimary, GeneralWon primary
Blake Masters (R)  source 1 source 2 Challenger U.S. Senate ArizonaPrimary, GeneralWon primary
John Boozman (R)  source Incumbent U.S. Senate ArkansasPrimary, GeneralWon general
Leora Levy (R)  source Challenger U.S. Senate ConnecticutPrimary, GeneralLost general
Marco Rubio (R)  source 1 source 2 Incumbent U.S. Senate FloridaPrimary, GeneralWon general
Herschel Walker (R)  source 1 source 2 Challenger U.S. Senate GeorgiaPrimary, GeneralWon primary
Mike Crapo (R)  source Incumbent U.S. Senate IdahoPrimary, GeneralWon general
Chuck Grassley (R)  source Incumbent U.S. Senate IowaPrimary, GeneralWon general
Jerry Moran (R)  source Incumbent U.S. Senate KansasPrimary, GeneralWon general
Rand Paul (R)  source Incumbent U.S. Senate KentuckyPrimary, GeneralWon general
John Neely Kennedy (R)  source Incumbent U.S. Senate LouisianaPrimaryWon primary
Eric Schmitt (R)  source Open seat U.S. Senate MissouriGeneralWon general
Adam Laxalt (R)  source Challenger U.S. Senate NevadaPrimary, GeneralWon primary
Don Bolduc (R)  source Challenger U.S. Senate New HampshireGeneralLost general
Ted Budd (R)  source Open seat U.S. Senate North CarolinaPrimary, GeneralWon general
John Hoeven (R)  source Incumbent U.S. Senate North DakotaPrimary, GeneralWon general
J.D. Vance (R)  source 1 source 2 Open seat U.S. Senate OhioPrimary, GeneralWon general
James Lankford (R)  source Incumbent U.S. Senate OklahomaGeneralWon general
Markwayne Mullin (R)  source Open seat U.S. Senate Oklahoma (special)Primary Runoff, GeneralWon general
Mehmet Oz (R)  source 1 source 2 Open seat U.S. Senate PennsylvaniaPrimary, GeneralLost general
Sean Parnell (R)  source Open seat U.S. Senate PennsylvaniaPrimaryNot on the ballot primary
Tim Scott (R)  source Incumbent U.S. Senate South CarolinaPrimary, GeneralWon general
Mike Lee (R)  source Incumbent U.S. Senate UtahPrimary, GeneralWon general
Gerald Malloy (R)  source Open seat U.S. Senate VermontGeneralLost general
Ronald Harold Johnson (R)  source Incumbent U.S. Senate WisconsinPrimary, GeneralWon primary


U.S. House endorsements by Donald Trump, 2022
CandidateStatusOffice soughtEndorsement typeOutcome
Jerry Carl (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Alabama District 1Primary, GeneralWon general
Barry Moore (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Alabama District 2Primary, GeneralWon general
Mike Rogers (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Alabama District 3Primary, GeneralWon general
Robert Aderholt (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Alabama District 4Primary, GeneralWon general
Dale Strong (R)  source Open seat U.S. House Alabama District 5GeneralWon general
Gary Palmer (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Alabama District 6Primary, GeneralWon general
Sarah Palin (R)  source Open seat U.S. House Alaska At-large District (special)Primary, GeneralLost general
Sarah Palin (R)  source Open seat U.S. House Alaska At-large DistrictPrimary, GeneralWon primary
David Schweikert (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Arizona District 1Primary, GeneralWon primary
Eli Crane (R)  source Challenger U.S. House Arizona District 2Primary, GeneralWon primary
Kelly Cooper (R)  source Challenger U.S. House Arizona District 4GeneralWon primary
Debbie Lesko (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Arizona District 8Primary, GeneralWon general
Paul Gosar (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Arizona District 9Primary, GeneralWon general
Rick Crawford (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Arkansas District 1Primary, GeneralWon general
Bruce Westerman (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Arkansas District 4Primary, GeneralWon general
Doug LaMalfa (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House California District 1Primary, GeneralWon general
Kevin McCarthy (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House California District 20Primary, GeneralWon general
Connie Conway (R)  source Open seat U.S. House California District 22 (special)GeneralWon general
Jay Obernolte (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House California District 23Primary, GeneralWon primary
Kevin Kiley (R)  source Open seat U.S. House California District 3Primary, GeneralWon primary
Ken Calvert (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House California District 41Primary, GeneralWon primary
Darrell Issa (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House California District 48Primary, GeneralWon general
Tom McClintock (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House California District 5Primary, GeneralWon general
Lauren Boebert (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Colorado District 3Primary, GeneralWon primary
Matt Gaetz (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Florida District 1Primary, GeneralWon general
Gus M. Bilirakis (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Florida District 12Primary, GeneralWon general
Anna Paulina Luna (R)  source Open seat U.S. House Florida District 13Primary, GeneralWon general
Vern Buchanan (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Florida District 16Primary, GeneralWon general
Greg Steube (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Florida District 17Primary, GeneralWon general
Scott Franklin (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Florida District 18Primary, GeneralWon general
Byron Donalds (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Florida District 19Primary, GeneralWon general
Neal Dunn (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Florida District 2Primary, GeneralWon general
Brian Mast (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Florida District 21Primary, GeneralWon general
Mario Diaz-Balart (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Florida District 26Primary, GeneralWon general
Carlos Gimenez (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Florida District 28Primary, GeneralWon general
Kat Cammack (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Florida District 3Primary, GeneralWon general
Aaron Bean (R)  source Open seat U.S. House Florida District 4GeneralWon general
John Rutherford (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Florida District 5Primary, GeneralWon general
Michael Waltz (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Florida District 6Primary, GeneralWon general
Cory Mills (R)  source Challenger U.S. House Florida District 7GeneralWon general
Earl Carter (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Georgia District 1Primary, GeneralWon general
Mike Collins (R)  source Open seat U.S. House Georgia District 10GeneralWon general
Vernon Jones (R)  source Open seat U.S. House Georgia District 10Primary, Primary RunoffLost primary runoff
Barry Loudermilk (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Georgia District 11Primary, GeneralWon general
Rick Allen (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Georgia District 12Primary, GeneralWon general
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Georgia District 14Primary, GeneralWon general
Jake Evans (R)  source Open seat U.S. House Georgia District 6Primary, Primary RunoffLost primary runoff
Rich McCormick (R)  source Open seat U.S. House Georgia District 6GeneralWon general
Andrew Clyde (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Georgia District 9Primary, GeneralWon general
Russ Fulcher (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Idaho District 1Primary, GeneralWon general
Mike Bost (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Illinois District 12Primary, GeneralWon general
Mary Miller (R)  source 1 source 2 Incumbent U.S. House Illinois District 15Primary, GeneralWon general
Darin LaHood (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Illinois District 16Primary, GeneralWon general
Jackie Walorski (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Indiana District 2PrimaryNot on the ballot general
Jim Banks (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Indiana District 3Primary, GeneralWon general
Jim Baird (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Indiana District 4Primary, GeneralWon general
Victoria Spartz (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Indiana District 5Primary, GeneralWon general
Greg Pence (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Indiana District 6Primary, GeneralWon general
Larry Bucshon (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Indiana District 8Primary, GeneralWon general
Erin Houchin (R)  source Open seat U.S. House Indiana District 9GeneralWon general
Ashley Hinson (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Iowa District 2Primary, GeneralWon general
Zach Nunn (R)  source Challenger U.S. House Iowa District 3Primary, GeneralWon primary
Randy Feenstra (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Iowa District 4Primary, GeneralWon general
Tracey Mann (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Kansas District 1Primary, GeneralWon general
James Comer Jr. (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Kentucky District 1Primary, GeneralWon general
Brett Guthrie (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Kentucky District 2Primary, GeneralWon general
Thomas Massie (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Kentucky District 4Primary, GeneralWon general
Hal Rogers (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Kentucky District 5Primary, GeneralWon general
Andy Barr (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Kentucky District 6Primary, GeneralWon general
Steve Scalise (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Louisiana District 1PrimaryWon primary
Clay Higgins (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Louisiana District 3PrimaryWon primary
Mike Johnson (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Louisiana District 4PrimaryWon primary
John James (R)  source Open seat U.S. House Michigan District 10Primary, GeneralWon primary
John Moolenaar (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Michigan District 2Primary, GeneralWon general
John Gibbs (R)  source Challenger U.S. House Michigan District 3Primary, GeneralWon primary
Bill Huizenga (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Michigan District 4Primary, GeneralWon general
Steve Carra (R)  source Challenger U.S. House Michigan District 4PrimaryNot on the ballot primary
Tim Walberg (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Michigan District 5Primary, GeneralWon general
Lisa McClain (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Michigan District 9Primary, GeneralWon general
Trent Kelly (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Mississippi District 1Primary, GeneralWon general
Mike Ezell (R)  source Challenger U.S. House Mississippi District 4GeneralWon general
Blaine Luetkemeyer (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Missouri District 3Primary, GeneralWon general
Mark Alford (R)  source Open seat U.S. House Missouri District 4GeneralWon general
Sam Graves (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Missouri District 6Primary, GeneralWon general
Eric Burlison (R)  source Open seat U.S. House Missouri District 7GeneralWon general
Jason Smith (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Missouri District 8Primary, GeneralWon general
Ryan Zinke (R)  source Open seat U.S. House Montana District 1Primary, GeneralWon primary
Matt Rosendale (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Montana District 2Primary, GeneralWon general
Adrian Smith (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Nebraska District 3Primary, GeneralWon general
Karoline Leavitt (R)  source Challenger U.S. House New Hampshire District 1GeneralLost general
Bob Burns (R)  source Challenger U.S. House New Hampshire District 2GeneralWon primary
Nicole Malliotakis (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House New York District 11Primary, GeneralWon general
Elise Stefanik (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House New York District 21Primary, GeneralWon general
Nicholas A. Langworthy (R)  source Challenger U.S. House New York District 23GeneralWon general
Claudia Tenney (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House New York District 24Primary, GeneralWon general
Sandy Smith (R)  source Open seat U.S. House North Carolina District 1GeneralWon primary
Patrick T. McHenry (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House North Carolina District 10Primary, GeneralWon general
Madison Cawthorn (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House North Carolina District 11PrimaryLost primary
Bo Hines (R)  source Open seat U.S. House North Carolina District 13Primary, GeneralLost general
Gregory Murphy (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House North Carolina District 3Primary, GeneralWon general
Virginia Foxx (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House North Carolina District 5Primary, GeneralWon general
David Rouzer (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House North Carolina District 7Primary, GeneralWon general
Dan Bishop (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House North Carolina District 8Primary, GeneralWon general
Richard Hudson (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House North Carolina District 9Primary, GeneralWon general
Kelly Armstrong (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House North Dakota At-large DistrictPrimary, GeneralWon general
Steve Chabot (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Ohio District 1Primary, GeneralLost general
Michael Turner (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Ohio District 10Primary, GeneralWon general
Troy Balderson (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Ohio District 12Primary, GeneralWon general
Madison Gesiotto Gilbert (R)  source Open seat U.S. House Ohio District 13Primary, GeneralLost general
Mike Carey (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Ohio District 15Primary, GeneralWon general
Brad Wenstrup (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Ohio District 2Primary, GeneralWon general
Jim Jordan (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Ohio District 4Primary, GeneralWon general
Bob Latta (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Ohio District 5Primary, GeneralWon general
Bill Johnson (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Ohio District 6Primary, GeneralWon general
Max Miller (R)  source Challenger U.S. House Ohio District 7Primary, GeneralWon general
Warren Davidson (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Ohio District 8Primary, GeneralWon general
J.R. Majewski (R)  source Challenger U.S. House Ohio District 9Primary, GeneralLost general
Kevin Hern (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Oklahoma District 1Primary, GeneralWon general
Josh Brecheen (R)  source Open seat U.S. House Oklahoma District 2GeneralWon general
Frank Lucas (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Oklahoma District 3Primary, GeneralWon general
Tom Cole (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Oklahoma District 4Primary, GeneralWon general
Scott Perry (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Pennsylvania District 10Primary, GeneralWon general
Lloyd Smucker (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Pennsylvania District 11Primary, GeneralWon general
Guy Reschenthaler (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Pennsylvania District 14Primary, GeneralWon general
Glenn Thompson (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Pennsylvania District 15GeneralWon general
Mike Kelly (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Pennsylvania District 16Primary, GeneralWon general
Jim Bognet (R)  source Challenger U.S. House Pennsylvania District 8Primary, GeneralWon primary
Dan Meuser (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Pennsylvania District 9GeneralWon general
Katie Arrington (R)  source Challenger U.S. House South Carolina District 1PrimaryLost primary
Joe Wilson (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House South Carolina District 2Primary, GeneralWon general
Jeff Duncan (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House South Carolina District 3Primary, GeneralWon general
William Timmons (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House South Carolina District 4Primary, GeneralWon general
Ralph Norman (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House South Carolina District 5Primary, GeneralWon general
Russell Fry (R)  source 1 source 2 Challenger U.S. House South Carolina District 7Primary, GeneralWon general
Diana Harshbarger (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Tennessee District 1Primary, GeneralWon general
Charles J. Fleischmann (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Tennessee District 3Primary, GeneralWon general
Andy Ogles (R)  source Challenger U.S. House Tennessee District 5GeneralWon general
Morgan Ortagus (R)  source Challenger U.S. House Tennessee District 5PrimaryNot on the ballot primary
Mark Green (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Tennessee District 7Primary, GeneralWon general
Nathaniel Moran (R)  source Open seat U.S. House Texas District 1GeneralWon general
Michael McCaul (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Texas District 10Primary, GeneralWon general
August Pfluger (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Texas District 11Primary, GeneralWon general
Kay Granger (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Texas District 12Primary, GeneralWon general
Ronny L. Jackson (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Texas District 13Primary, GeneralWon general
Randy Weber (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Texas District 14Primary, GeneralWon general
Monica De La Cruz (R)  source Open seat U.S. House Texas District 15Primary, GeneralWon primary
Jodey Arrington (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Texas District 19Primary, GeneralWon general
Troy Nehls (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Texas District 22Primary, GeneralWon general
Beth Van Duyne (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Texas District 24Primary, GeneralWon general
Roger Williams (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Texas District 25Primary, GeneralWon general
Michael Cloud (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Texas District 27Primary, GeneralWon general
Keith Self (R)  source Challenger U.S. House Texas District 3GeneralWon general
John Carter (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Texas District 31Primary, GeneralWon general
Brian Babin (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Texas District 36Primary, GeneralWon general
Wesley Hunt (R)  source Open seat U.S. House Texas District 38Primary, GeneralWon general
Pat Fallon (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Texas District 4Primary, GeneralWon general
Lance Gooden (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Texas District 5Primary, GeneralWon general
Jake Ellzey (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Texas District 6Primary, GeneralWon general
Morgan Luttrell (R)  source Open seat U.S. House Texas District 8GeneralWon general
Chris Stewart (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Utah District 2Primary, GeneralWon general
Burgess Owens (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Utah District 4Primary, GeneralWon general
Robert J. Wittman (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Virginia District 1Primary, GeneralWon general
Bob Good (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Virginia District 5Convention, GeneralWon general
Benjamin Lee Cline (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Virginia District 6Primary, GeneralWon general
Yesli Vega (R)  source Challenger U.S. House Virginia District 7GeneralLost general
H. Morgan Griffith (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House Virginia District 9Primary, GeneralWon general
Joe Kent (R)  source Challenger U.S. House Washington District 3Primary, GeneralWon primary
Loren Culp (R)  source Challenger U.S. House Washington District 4PrimaryLost primary
Carol Miller (R)  source Incumbent U.S. House West Virginia District 1Primary, GeneralWon general
Alexander Mooney (R)  source 1 source 2 Incumbent U.S. House West Virginia District 2Primary, GeneralWon general
Derrick Van Orden (R)  source Open seat U.S. House Wisconsin District 3Primary, GeneralWon primary
Harriet Hageman (R)  source Challenger U.S. House Wyoming At-large DistrictPrimary, GeneralWon general




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To: chiller

DeSantis never pledges to serve 4 years - citation please.


21 posted on 11/09/2022 9:10:48 AM PST by HonorInPa
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To: Robert DeLong

Lots of finger pointing this morning. Everyone should calm down a bit and let the final races play out. Take a breath. Regroup. Appreciate the wins we get and if we take the house, that will matter.


22 posted on 11/09/2022 9:16:31 AM PST by Jonny7797
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To: frogjerk

If you don’t think DeSantis crushing it in Florida doesnt make him an obviously better option for 2024 just by virtue of his not aiming a shotgun at his foot every time he opens steps out in public, they should change the name of FreeRepublic to TrumpRepublic and be done.


23 posted on 11/09/2022 9:17:20 AM PST by Callahan ( )
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To: HonorInPa
DeSantis never pledges to serve 4 years - citation please.

Some article quoting an anonymous third party insider claims DeSantis has said he won't run if Trump runs.

DeSantis himself has never said this and after last night, he should leave his options open because Trump is finished.

24 posted on 11/09/2022 9:19:48 AM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: redguyinabluestate

Trump


25 posted on 11/09/2022 9:24:56 AM PST by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: Scarlett156

Well said, Thank you!


26 posted on 11/09/2022 9:28:35 AM PST by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: Callahan

DeSantis isn’t running


27 posted on 11/09/2022 9:35:39 AM PST by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: Drew68

Trump is bleeding supporters. He is out of touch with the people.


28 posted on 11/09/2022 9:37:32 AM PST by 38special (I should've said something earlier)
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To: redangus

He’ll be 80, and if he somehow won, he could only serve 1 term,and we’d be back to figuring out the next candidate.

And meanwhile we’d keep losing elections, like we have ever since Trump eeked out the presidential victory in 2016.

Better to pick a popular, articulate person who could serve two terms and achieve something.


29 posted on 11/09/2022 9:45:07 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: frogjerk

It is hard to see how anybody could argue that crazy people assaulting police officers and storming the capital did ANYTHING at all positive for anything conservatives want to accomplish.

And it is hard to see how anybody could argue that keeping classified documents in your home and fighting over it helps any conservative cause.

And this seems to be a conservative site, more or less, although Trump was never a conservative and he got a lot of support here, because Trump is for Trump, and he managed to get conservatives supporting him, so he did what they wanted, to some degree.


30 posted on 11/09/2022 9:48:47 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Like I said before - you are on the wrong site.


31 posted on 11/09/2022 10:00:39 AM PST by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: frogjerk

President Trump is damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. Obama ran around for people and no one is blaming him for losses. President Trump worked hard for the Republican Party but they don’t deserve him.


32 posted on 11/09/2022 10:18:44 AM PST by Cowgirl
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To: Drew68

I’m hoping that Trump (and his advisors) think long and hard about announcing next. Not sure his ego will allow it but, here’s hoping.


33 posted on 11/09/2022 10:19:38 AM PST by HonorInPa
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To: Jonny7797

I agree. 🙂


34 posted on 11/09/2022 10:30:29 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: frogjerk

This site has a wide range of people, some of whom are conservative.

Trump was never a conservative. He was at best a populist with a tilt toward business. His position changes for the 2016 election were well documented, and one could hope they were truthful, and that the would learn how to govern.

They were mostly not, and he never got past everything being about him. The media and the dems made it very hard for him; his repeated bad picks for appointments were all self-owns. Ceding most judges to a conservative group was the best thing he did, as his personal choices for judges were not particularly helpful.

When his personal fortunes lined up with conservative causes, he was great. If he hadn’t lost the house, we might have actually been able to pass a law codifying some of his gains on the immigration front. Yet immigration hardly mattered in this election, no messaging mattered in this election, because in the end, Trump made it all about him, and he is still unpopular in general, and not particularly a vote draw amongst republicans, so races that looked like we might squeak out all fell the other way after he held rallies. But his rallies were “popular” for him, and for Trump, that is the important thing.

That anybody saw Trump as anything more than a rough tool to try to get what conservatives wanted is hilarious. That they thought he could be controlled, managed, or focused on winning political battles was clearly a mistake. That people still think he’s some sort of savior indicates the cult status of a narcissist.

I remember when conservative meant limiting government as much as possible so it mattered as little as possible in our day-to-day lives. Trump was the opposite, and we are still paying the price.


35 posted on 11/09/2022 12:58:56 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Cowgirl

which people did Obama “run around for” that lost?

Lauren Boebert could possible lose an R+7 rural seat, in a year where people were begging for a rational alternative to the democrats.

Trump worked hard for himself, failed himself, blames people he hand-picked like Oz and Buldoc, while he hardly spent any of his own money. And some people think Trump did all he could, and blame McConnell for not spending MORE than the $243 million he spent trying to prop up the Trump-primary picks.

Now, our response to Dobbs was also a real killer. Not having prepared a message or strategy, and allowing democrats and the media to define the choices as “ban on contraceptives” vs “codifying roe”, when the real national choice was between later-term abortion restrictions (most of which were in bounds for Roe), vs abortion on demand for all 9 months, drove away once again the suburban women; who of course never really liked Trump.

The democrats spent 2 years setting up this election as a Trump election, Trump joined them, and we got the result you could expect.


36 posted on 11/09/2022 1:04:23 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT
You make some good points but many others, not so good.

Case in point - They were mostly not, and he never got past everything being about him.

Do you honestly think that anyone but Trump would have stood up to the left with regards to the beating Kavanaugh took? No one, not one other GOP President wouldn't have.

MTG said it best yesterday:

I wish Pres Trump announced last night in Ohio, but he chose to put everyone else first. He’s held 30 rallies in 17 states, hosted 43 telerallies & 52 candidate fundraisers, & endorsed 285 candidates while being politically persecuted. He’s put everyone else first all along.— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) November 8, 2022

37 posted on 11/09/2022 1:12:37 PM PST by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
Lauren Boebert could possible lose an R+7 rural seat, in a year where people were begging for a rational alternative to the democrats.

Wasn't her district redistricted making that R+7 seat a thing of the past?

38 posted on 11/09/2022 1:13:57 PM PST by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
Now, our response to Dobbs was also a real killer. Not having prepared a message or strategy, and allowing democrats and the media to define the choices as “ban on contraceptives” vs “codifying roe”, when the real national choice was between later-term abortion restrictions (most of which were in bounds for Roe), vs abortion on demand for all 9 months, drove away once again the suburban women; who of course never really liked Trump.

There was a large swing for Suburban Women for the GOP this election - It was rather large so let me get that info for you. But your analysis is incorrect.

39 posted on 11/09/2022 1:15:47 PM PST by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: redangus

If Trump runs, the Dems will win in 2024 regardless of who actually wins the nomination. If Trump is the nominee, a lot of people who may like what he has done but don’t want another 4 years like his last term will either not vote or vote for someone else. If anyone but Trump is the nominee, Trump will undercut them at everyone opportunity, and all of the Trump cultists will sit the election out. Either way, we lose.


40 posted on 11/09/2022 2:19:34 PM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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