ELECTION UPDATE: President Trump Goes 12-1 on Primary Endorsements This Week

As Politico noted, President Trump heavily focused on two congressional races in South Carolina.

GOP Reps. Nancy Mace and Tom Rice both blamed Trump for his role in perpetuating the events of Jan. 6. After the riots, Mace called out the then-president, saying he needed to “get off Twitter” to communicate peace, while Rice voted with nine other House Republicans to impeach Trump (a group that does not include Mace). Then, Trump endorsed challengers against both of them in primaries this year.

While Mace survived against her primary challenger, defeating Trump-endorsed Katie Arrington, Rice lost to Trump-backed Russell Fry.

ELECTION UPDATE: U.S. Rep. Tom Rice, One of 10 House Republicans to Vote for Trump’s Impeachment, Ousted in Primary by Trump-Endorsed Russell Fry

The full list of Trump-endorsed candidates who won their Tuesday primaries includes:

South Carolina

Governor – Henry McMaster
Attorney General – Alan Wilson
Senate – Tim Scott
SC02 – Joe Wilson
SC03 – Jeff Duncan
SC04 – William Timmons
SC05 – Ralph Norman
SC07 – Russell Fry

North Dakota

Senate – John Hoeven
NDAL – Kelly Armstrong

Nevada

Senate – Adam Laxalt
Governor – Joe Lombardo

Amnesty Senator Hoeven will vote for amnesty AGAIN.

So will Tim Scott.

Re-electing Bush League Republicans who are Assistant Democrats is not winning, even if it looks good on paper.

The real score card on President Trump’s endorsements should not be whether or not they win their primaries, it should be whether or not they prove to be true MAGA once in office.

I understand that having his endorsees win makes him stronger - establishes him as “kingmaker” - and that’s great. I’m all for Trump winning, and he knows how to win.

But I think I smell RINO on a few of these primary “winners”, and I was hoping this would be the year we purged them from our midst, not create new ones.

Mainstream media when 93% of the candidates Trump endorses win..."Move along nothing to see here".

Mainstream media when a Trump endorsed candidate happens to lose..."This seals it! The era of Trump is over, the Republican base has finally abandoned him!"

The real score card on President Trump’s endorsements should not be whether or not they win their primaries, it should be whether or not they prove to be true MAGA once in office.

Idealistic approach that ignores reality.

1. You only win when you have the majority.
2. Some areas of the country are not bright red, they are purple, or even blue. You will not get the purity you want in those districts no matter how much you want it. You get what you can get.

Happily, President Trump is not an idealogue, but a realist, and pursues an approach that works with "You go to war with the Army you have, not the one you wish to have"

You spot on. Idealistic garbage. Politicians are herd animals, the herd moves with Trump and they will mostly get in line. They will stick out if they don’t. This primary season is the Bush-era-GOP’ers assistant democrats last stand and they are loosing 128-7.

Those that get in will quickly realize they move with the herd, or they get destroyed.

Question: how many would have won without the Trump endorsement? In other words, is Trump picking frontrunners or is he picking ideological conservatives?

Depending on the candidate and the scenario on the ground in the district/state the candidate is running in, probably both.

But having Trump's endorsement is political capital that Trump can use later.

President Trump is no dummy!

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