Posted on 11/16/2022 2:35:22 AM PST by fruser1
When I heard the immediate news reports across the board about how Trump endorsed candidates were losing, and given my general distrust of the press, I did some searches for reports on how many Trump endorsed candidates won.
Search results were all articles about how Trump endorsed candidates lost. So I looked at those thinking I would see some numbers such as number lost over the total run. But that critical factoid was missing, interestingly enough, from the ones I checked.
This told me that the fix was in and as I always do with subjects I actually have interest in, I started tabulating my own info based on race results.
One senate race and one house race is still uncallable, so below gives the worst case result (meaning the uncallable races don’t go with the Trump supported candidate)
Here’s the breakdown:
Governor – 9/18 = 50% Senate – 13/18 = 72% House – 97/119 = 81%
Hopefully this would mean he’d get more cooperation instead of back stabbing in congress.
Nevertheless, being that elections often hover around 50/50 results with a 51% win being great, I don’t see the 50% governor bit as a big negative.
This affirms for me that all those reports about how dumb it would be to support Trump because his candidates lose are total BS.
Vote for who you want, not who you think everyone else wants.
Well, here in Arizona, it was clear - the Trump endorsement was kiss of death!
Enough to win the primary, not enough to actually win the general election!
Frankly, the Trump endorsees were terrible, I have no idea how he selected them?!
All statewide endorsed by Trump lost, all others won!
Kari says AZ knows BS when they see it, so do I.
The problem with your logic is that all races are not created equal. He made all the lay-ups but lost the majority of the competitive races.
So I guess won’t get 100% of the vote nationally. I kind of figured that.
Maybe two more years of increasing misery under socialist rule will make those non-Trump voters of their ways in 2024.
And that would be the problem with the logic of the articles purporting Trump can’t win because of negative results, yes?
Yet after those reports across the board, many here jumped on the “Buckley Bandwagon” of vote for the most conservative candidate that can’t win theory, and turned on Trump.
DeSantis campaigned for Kari Lake. Held a campaign rally for her. I guess he is the kiss of death too.
Dude, smoking that crap will give you emphysema!
Election theft makes it seem like some, for example AZ, campaigns were lost which were actually won. Have to consider election cheating when evaluating how well Trump did, in spite of those planning to steal. Yes, we have to stop the steal.
Me too.
Ain’t that something?
far left ABC Australia brings on Ornstein - who they once detested - to frame Trump’s announcement today. it gets really ridiculous from 3min in, with the ABC guy wondering whether democracy is returning to US, given the defeat of the most high profile election-denying candidates:
AUDIO: 4m22s: 16 Nov: ABC PM Program: Trump run for White House “unsettling” for democracy
by David Lipson
Despite growing resistance from within the Republican party, Donald Trump could succeed in a third nomination for the Presidential contest and go on to sit in the White House again.
Norman Ornstein from the American Enterprise Institute says that’s a really unsettling reality for people watching the health of American democracy.
Featured: Norman Ornstein, Emeritus Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/pm/trump-run-for-white-house-unsettling-for-democracy/101662262
far left ABC Australia brings on Ornstein - who they once detested - to frame Trump’s announcement today. it gets really ridiculous from 3min in, with the ABC guy wondering whether democracy is returning to US, given the defeat of the most high profile election-denying candidates:
AUDIO: 4m22s: 16 Nov: ABC PM Program: Trump run for White House “unsettling” for democracy
by David Lipson
Despite growing resistance from within the Republican party, Donald Trump could succeed in a third nomination for the Presidential contest and go on to sit in the White House again.
Norman Ornstein from the American Enterprise Institute says that’s a really unsettling reality for people watching the health of American democracy.
Featured: Norman Ornstein, Emeritus Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/pm/trump-run-for-white-house-unsettling-for-democracy/101662262
You’re completely FOS. Arizona is rife with fraud and THAT’S how the demons stole the election
apologies for double post.
The Trump-led GOP underperformed in 2022.
The Trump-led GOP was a catastrophe in 2022 when you consider that Biden has an approval rating of 27% with independents. Those independents think the nation is on the wrong track by 72%.
By any historical measure, this should have been a wave election.
Instead, it was a fizzle because Trump and his picked leader of the party, Ronna McDaniel, changed nothing after 2020 where we first saw the effects of ballot harvesting.
2022 should have been nationalized and turned into a referendum about Biden.
Those independents who hated Biden? They broke 49-49% for the Democrats.
Governor – 9/18 = 50% Senate – 13/18 = 72% House – 97/119 = 81%
Trump is trying to take credit for the safe bet races of people like Rubio, Grassley, and Rand Paul when he talks about his "93% winning endorsements!" but the real test is how did Trump's picks do in the swing states he lost in 2020 but will need to win in 2024 if he wants to have a shot?
Let's take a look:
Governors:
Lombardo: W
Lake: L
Mastriano: L
Michels: L
Dixon: L
Perdue: L
Senate:
Johnson: W
Walker: RO
Masters: L
Oz: L
Laxalt: L
Bolduc: L
Secretaries of State:
Finchem: L
Karamo: L
Marchant: L
Hice: L
These are the states Trump needs to win and nobody was buying what he was selling.
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