The midterm elections shaped up to be absolutely humiliating for former President Donald Trump. While the Republican Party as a whole struggled to secure much success in the recent election — with the GOP regaining control in the House by only a razor-thin margin and failing to regain complete congressional power when the Democrats retained their majority in the Senate — Trump himself took a hard, personal hit as the self-proclaimed kingmaker of the GOP watched his hand-picked, endorsed candidates fall off like flies to their Left counterparts.
And you best believe, he is desperate to clean up his reputation, even if that means throwing the whole damn party under the bus.
Trump kicked off his new year on Sunday with a manically unhinged rant on his struggling Truth Social platform, where he took aim at the likes of “stupid $’s” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other key Republican members of Congress, as he attempted to tout his now-tarnished endorsement record and blamed the Republicans’ “abortion issue” for the catastrophic midterm election.
Trump fumed on social media on New Year’s Day:
It wasn’t my fault that the Republicans didn’t live up to expectations in the MidTerms. I was 233-20! It was the ‘abortion issue,’ poorly handled by many Republicans, especially those that firmly insisted on No Exceptions, even in the case of Rape, Incest, or Life of the Mother, that lost large numbers of Voters.
Also, the people that pushed so hard, for decades, against abortion, got their wish from the U.S. Supreme Court, & just plain disappeared, not to be seen again. Plus, Mitch stupid $’s!”
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Multiple Trump-endorsed candidates brutally failed their races late last year, and Mitch McConnell himself seemed to take a thinly veiled jab at the former president when he publicly noted that the Senate was likely to fail due to what he called “candidate quality.”
“I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate. Senate races are just different — they’re statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome,” Mitch accurately predicted way back in August, and exit polling has confirmed that abortion was a top issue for many voters in the US.
However, we have no earthly idea why Trump chose New Year’s as the day of all days to start picking this particular bone.
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