Trump endorsement no longer a ballot box lock
Jul 2, 2020 16:13:25 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2020 16:13:25 GMT
This is HUGE!!
Pols have been riding around up Trump's butt because they're afraid with one word, he eviscerates their chances at the ballot box.
But, being endorsed by Trump is no longer meaning you've got a lock on the election outcome.
"Start with what occurred on Tuesday night in Colorado. Rep. Scott Tipton had a reliable pro-Trump voting record in Congress. He was endorsed by the President. There was no sign that Tipton was in trouble. Yet he got defeated by his far-right-wing challenger, Lauren Boebert.
This follows what happened in North Carolina a little more than a week ago. Trump (and Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows) endorsed Lynda Bennett, but she didn't come close to winning. Instead, it was political newcomer Madison Cawthorn who earned the Republican nomination.
About a week before that loss, the same thing happened in Virginia. Rep. Denver Riggleman lost his race to the more conservative Bob Good in a drive-thru convention. Like Tipton and Bennett, Riggleman had Trump's backing.
Any of these losses on their own wouldn't be noteworthy, and none of the winning candidates were anti-Trump. Still, it's quite unusual for an incumbent president to support three primary losers in about a three-week period. Just being pro-Trump is not enough to survive.
If nothing else, these defeats show a President who is perhaps not as in touch with his constituents as we might have believed.
Indeed, there is some sign that Republican voters aren't nearly as enthusiastic about Trump as they were a few months ago. A majority of Republicans still strongly approve of Trump's job performance, but both Fox News and Marist College have his "strongly approve" rating down more than 5 points since March. "
www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/politics/trump-republican-losses-analysis/index.html
Pols have been riding around up Trump's butt because they're afraid with one word, he eviscerates their chances at the ballot box.
But, being endorsed by Trump is no longer meaning you've got a lock on the election outcome.
"Start with what occurred on Tuesday night in Colorado. Rep. Scott Tipton had a reliable pro-Trump voting record in Congress. He was endorsed by the President. There was no sign that Tipton was in trouble. Yet he got defeated by his far-right-wing challenger, Lauren Boebert.
This follows what happened in North Carolina a little more than a week ago. Trump (and Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows) endorsed Lynda Bennett, but she didn't come close to winning. Instead, it was political newcomer Madison Cawthorn who earned the Republican nomination.
About a week before that loss, the same thing happened in Virginia. Rep. Denver Riggleman lost his race to the more conservative Bob Good in a drive-thru convention. Like Tipton and Bennett, Riggleman had Trump's backing.
Any of these losses on their own wouldn't be noteworthy, and none of the winning candidates were anti-Trump. Still, it's quite unusual for an incumbent president to support three primary losers in about a three-week period. Just being pro-Trump is not enough to survive.
If nothing else, these defeats show a President who is perhaps not as in touch with his constituents as we might have believed.
Indeed, there is some sign that Republican voters aren't nearly as enthusiastic about Trump as they were a few months ago. A majority of Republicans still strongly approve of Trump's job performance, but both Fox News and Marist College have his "strongly approve" rating down more than 5 points since March. "
www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/politics/trump-republican-losses-analysis/index.html
