Where it mattered most, Trump’s Texas endorsement didn’t get the job done

Washington Post ^ | Mar 2, 2022 | Philip Bump

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It did not take long for Donald Trump to start bragging.

Less than three hours after polls closed in Texas, Trump’s political action committee released a statement from the former president.

“All 33 candidates that were Trump endorsed have either won their primary election or are substantially leading in the case of a runoff,” it read. “Governor Abbott and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick have won in a landslide.” Then, an incongruous “thank you,” before he offered his congratulations to the winners.....

You’ll notice a few things off the bat. The first is that most of the candidates being endorsed were incumbents — 25 of the 33. In other words, most of the candidates Trump endorsed would have probably been favored anyway, given the advantages that accompany incumbency. You can see that more than half of the candidates endorsed by Trump were incumbents who earned more than 60 percent of the vote, generally a sign that the opposition they faced was not particularly robust. Seven of his endorsees were House incumbents who didn’t face opponents, a group for which Trump doesn’t really deserve credit.

If he wants to count those in his total then he actually went 33 for 34. After all, in October, Trump lashed out at state House speaker Dade Phelan (R) for not rolling over on election fraud claims. He pledged that he would target Phelan in the primary — but Phelan ran unopposed and won with 100 percent of the vote.

[Pearfect]

Nice response.

[octex]

Paxton has won quite a few rulings from Fed appeals courts and the SCOTUS in the past couple of years or so.

[stanne]

Yes he has. A few nasty words from Gohmert and people are all over him like they’re a bunch of lemmings.

What was Gohmert doing?

[octex]

Cruz was TX Solicitor General 2003-08. He was not AG.