Just yesterday, we reported that ex-President Donald Trump is so going strong in the notion that he has poised himself as some sort of Republican party “Kingmaker,” as he claimed in a new interview that even foreign world leaders have called on him for his endorsement to further and strengthen their own political races. But according to party insiders who are now speaking out, it seems the weight and power of Trump’s “total and complete endorsement” may not really exist anywhere outside the deranged, disgraced former guy’s own head.
Multiple Republican strategists recently spoke to ABC News on the condition of anonymity and revealed that, in their professional opinions, Trump’s kingmaker status within the GOP has gone by the wayside. According to the party insiders, it’s Trump’s ongoing, relentless assistance that he actually won the 2020 election and had his rightful second term stolen from him through Democratic cheating and widespread voter fraud that’s quickly wearing thin on the GOP and only serving to steadily weaken the power of Trump’s political megaphone among Republicans.
To make matters worse for the one-term, twice-impeached former guy, this group of party insiders isn’t the only ones who feel that Donald Trump doesn’t boast the power within the Republican party that he thinks he does. Just last month, devout Right-wing conspiracy theorist and political commentator Alex Sheppard wrote that Trump’s “early mixed endorsement record shows that his efforts to remake [the party] entirely in his image are faltering. The Republican Party may still be rotten to its core, but it doesn’t belong entirely to Donald Trump.”
ABC reports that beginning next month, “in states from Georgia and North Carolina to Arizona and Alaska, former President Donald Trump will see his influence tested in a series of high-stakes GOP primaries. Trump has placed himself in the middle of a wide range of races in which his chosen candidates have struggled or where he is at sharp odds with other prominent Republican voices — including former Cabinet members, close aides, and potential rivals who hope bad calls by Trump prove a point.”
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Maryland Republican Governor Larry Hogan told the publication, “Trump is trying to insert himself in races all across the country where people he’s supporting are crazy.” Hogan’s assessment has company among the party, as just last weekend, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu allegedly dubbed ex-President Donald Trump “fucking crazy” during an appearance at Washington’s Gridiron Club dinner.
Trump and his people, though, are still clinging to their “Kingmaker” delusion as strong as ever, with the former president’s spokesman Taylor Budowich asserting, “There’s nothing more powerful in American politics than the endorsement of President Trump.”
However, as ABC News notes, Trump is certainly showing signs that the pressure is getting to his nerves when it comes to throwing his support behind potential election losers. We saw a pretty prime example of such when he publicly pulled his endorsement of incumbent Republican House Rep. Mo Brooks following polls that showed Brooks floundering in his state of Alabama.
Hogan, who’s leaving his position in office at the end of the year and has publicly vouched for and supported several Republican candidates that Trump is trying to beat said, “The primaries are critically important because they are going to determine what the Republican Party looks like. It will tell us how much Trump’s influence has waned or not. Has he been diminished? And what does that foretell about the next election two years later?”
“I’d like to be able to say, you know, we won all these races — and he lost,” the outgoing GOP governor said. “He lost the White House and the Senate and the House and governors’ races and state legislative bodies. I wouldn’t call that being a winner. And now he’s going to lose in 2022 — another round of losses for him. And so that’s something that can help us steer things in a better direction.”
It certainly seems clear that Donald Trump is rapidly beginning to lose not only his sway but his entire sense of power over his own political party.
Read the full ABC News report here.
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