Politics: Trump’s 2022 Endorsements

Well, with no new episode of CSI: Vegas on tonight, I can do a post of this blog without having to another one in my new Fadam Secretary blog to make up for the planned date this is posted on being out of sync with when it could work out. This will give me one less blog post to write, which is good and fine, even if I have to write this one today.

 

Now let’s get to the post at hand. You see, for some dumb reason, a twice impeached, scandal plagued, serial abusing, lying grifter is the most sought after person to have endorsing some people in the Republican Party. What does this say about the Republican Party? A whole lot. Who did Trump endorse in the 2022 elections and did any of them win? Let’s do a quick check of what I can find:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_endorsements_by_Donald_Trump

 

For those of you who aren’t just clicking that link to find how just how hilarious his first ever endorsement was in 2008, I’ll just do a quick review of what happened in 2022. I will split this into different sections. Note that not all of his endorsements might be on the list.

 

For gubernatorial races, he endorsed 20 people and 9 of them won the general election. That’s less than half. And only 2 of them that won weren’t already the incumbent governor. For the senate races, there was a bit of confusion and change with some of them. Mo Brooks said to get past 2020 and he was dead to Trump after that. Trump then endorsed Katie Britt. With the race in Pennsylvania, his original candidate, Sean Parnell, dropped out of the race so he switched to Dr. Oz instead. And in Missouri, he simply endorsed Eric, without specifying which of the three (one almost certainly too obscure to be right) Erics it was.

 

Anyways, as it came to the final count of state’s endorsements, it was 21 states having had a Trump backed candidate, 15 of them winning, and a mere 4 of them not already being in office. Unlike the gubernatorial races which had 1 challenger winning, only open seats were won in this set meaning that not one single Trump endorsed candidate beat an incumbent Democrat.

 

I wanted to include another two sections on the house races and then other ones that were included, but the page of information that I’m looking at that is my only source that I’m bothering with right now has only the primary results and not the general election results. Thus, I don’t yet know if there is more success for these candidates in later stages or not.

 

What else can I say? Not much. Never has a former president, as far as I know, been so vocal in trying to get people elected to office. Of course, Republicans should be fleeing from him and not wanting these endorsements. If they don’t learn, they will be doomed to lose elections.