Cheney has huge name recognition in the state and is raising vast sums of money. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reutersīut perhaps the climactic primary battle will come in Wyoming in August when congresswoman Liz Cheney, who has come to personify the party’s anti-Trump resistance, is challenged for a House seat by pro-Trump Harriet Hageman. Trump has endorsed Sarah Palin for a vacant House seat in Alaska. “Sarah shocked many when she endorsed me very early in 2016, and we won big,” Trump stated.
He is also all-in for Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska and vice-presidential nominee, who is far from guaranteed to win a vacant House seat in her home state. “Like some others, JD Vance may have said some not so great things about me in the past, but he gets it now, and I have seen that in spades,” the ex-president explained. On Friday evening, Trump announced his endorsement of JD Vance, author of the memoir Hillbilly Elegy, for a fiercely competitive Senate primary in Ohio. They run the gamut from shoo-ins to too-close-to-call to genuine underdogs. They’ll be people who are going to vote in those primaries in the Republican party, so the more contacts he makes at the local level, the better positioned he will be.”Ī procession of Republican aspirants have beaten a path to Trump’s luxury Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, in the hope of joining the anointed ones. If he does decide to run, these are all people who will be part of county and state political organisations. She added: “Second, he’s trying to build local bases of support in swing states. As his other businesses either get sold or dry up or are subject to lawsuits or criminal investigation, he’s still continuing to raise a lot of money and he gets to support his lifestyle through all of these activities.” Wendy Schiller, a political science professor at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, said: “This has become a business for Trump. Trump’s Save America group, responsible for countless fundraising events and emails, netted a massive $124m between November 2020 and March 2022 while spending only about $14m, or about 11%, to support midterm candidates, according to an analysis by the Reuters news agency. Trump is laying the groundwork for purveyors of “the big lie” to take control of election machinery across the country.Īllan Lichtman, a distinguished professor of history at American University in Washington, said: “He’s interested in shaping the party, endorsing those who he thinks support him and his approach to politics, and he’s also trying to put into place in some key swing states like Michigan, Arizona and Georgia folks that he thinks can help him steal the next election if he runs.”
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One evident motive is to install loyalists who pass the litmus test of supporting his false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen by Joe Biden. Why Trump is so willing to jeopardise his brand – and how he would respond to being given a bloody nose by Republican voters – remains a matter of conjecture. Never before has a US president left office only to continue barnstorming the country with campaign rallies and insert himself so aggressively into congressional elections. Like so much about Trump, he’s refusing to go along and wants to still be a player.” They would like to see Trump quietly drift off into the past. That is the orientation of a lot of the Republican leaders. Jacobs added: “There are definitely some Republicans looking at the presidential nomination who are ready to take on Trump, particularly if they see him as weakening. A more seasoned politician would have been a little more judicious, a little more careful on these close races.”Ī string of primary losses for Trump’s picks could also puncture the aura of inevitability around him as party standard bearer in the race for the White House in 2024, encouraging potential rivals such as Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida. He’s put his political capital on the line in so many races. “It’s almost certain that the growing sentiment among Republican leadership that Trump’s day has come and gone will be reinforced this year. Right now the roulette wheel is turning and, if he’s wrong on a number of these, you’re going to see increasing defiance. Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota, said: “Donald Trump is like a reckless gambler that’s gone into a casino and put his stack of money on one number. Photograph: Joe Marino/UPI/REX/Shutterstock A defeat for Mehmet Oz could deal a huge symbolic blow to Trump’s status as party kingmaker.
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