'Donald is in the rearview mirror, it's time to move on': GOP Lt. Gov of Georgia blames lackluster midterms on ex-President and his 'flawed' candidates - as Republicans put boot into 'toxic Trump'
Daily Mail
November 9, 2022
Donald Trump is being largely blamed for the midterm red wave that never happened, with Republican strategists pinning the party's underwhelming performance in the 2022 midterms on his selection of 'flawed' candidates.
Trump endorsed some 300 candidates, held 30 rallies and raised millions of dollars for his 'army' of candidates. It was supposed to be the amuse-bouche for a Presidential run, intended to set him up for a sweeping 2024 success.
But overnight, many of Trump's chosen candidates crashed and burned. Five of his chosen candidates - Bo Hines (North Carolina's 13th District), Sandy Smith (North Carolina's 1st District), Mehmet Oz (Pennsylvania State Senate) and Tim Michels (Wisconsin Gubernatorial Race) and Lee Zeldin (New York Gubernatorial race) - all lost.
Early analysis also shows that in counties with Trump-backed candidates, the Republican vote share increased by just 1.3 percent compared with 6.9 percent in counties where he wasn't involved in the race.
Republican candidates who defied him, like Ron DeSantis and Brian Kemp, stormed to victory: the Florida Governor flipped the Democrat stronghold of Miami Dade county and Kemp, who has long denied Trump's election fraud claims, defeated Democrat Stacy Abrams by nearly eight points.
Instead of the Red Wave that wasn't
Cautious while the remaining results trickle in, Republicans launched a stinging post-mortem on Wednesday morning and harked back to Mitch McConnell's August warning that poor candidate quality could stop the party from flipping the Senate.
'This is a pivot point for the Republican party. Donald Trump is no doubt in the rearview mirror. It is time to move on with the party,' Geoff Duncan, the Republican Lt. Governor of Georgia, told CNN.
2 comments:
Unfortunately the NEVFR TRUMP crowd is both fairly numerous and very loud. And they will either vote for somebody else or stay away if push comes to shove.
I thought President Trump did a good job. He solidified our strength worldwide. He also raised the hackles on a good many people. I'm going to sit back and see how the mid-terms play out. The Red Wave was crushed by women voters. I believe Trump is done.
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