Texas loss alarms TFG advisers worried he's a total loser

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Earlier this month, former President Donald Trump scrawled a celebratory note on a polling memo that appeared to point to a big win for a new ally.

“David – Good! I’m all in,” Trump wrote across the top of the document to David McIntosh, a staunch ally and the influential head of the anti-tax Club for Growth. The memo summarized a May survey showing Texas Republican Susan Wright, who Trump had endorsed at McIntosh’s recommendation during a meeting at his Mar-a-Lago resort, with a big 17-point lead over her Republican opponent in a House special election.

Now, Trump and his advisers are trying to figure out what Wright’s defeat means for them — and how to contain any damage. Her loss Tuesday night sent shockwaves through the former president’s inner circle. Many privately concede the pressure is on them to win another special election next week in Ohio, where a Trump-backed candidate is locked in a close primary.

Advisers worry that a second embarrassing loss would raise questions about the power of Trump’s endorsement — his most prized political commodity, which candidates from Ohio to Wyoming are scrambling to earn before next year’s midterms. More broadly, losses could undermine his standing in the Republican Party, where his popularity and influence has protected Trump’s relevance even as an ex-president barred from his social media megaphones.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/texas-loss-alarms-trump-advisers-worried-about-party-clout/ar-AAMFHDw

He's overrated, always has been. GOP clowns fell for his alpha chimpanzee bluff.

[Skittles]

1. UGH

the very idea that even after the events of Jan 6 and completely failing in response to a pandemic, repukes still consider Trump's endorsement "the most prized political commodity" is absolutely sickening

[Demovictory9]

2. Plus 1

[malaise]

3. He will soon be a pariah

Get the snacks

[Biophilic]

4. I can only hope. But I'm stocking up on snacks just in case. nt

[SeattleVet]

5. The wingnuts have already found a way to twist this around...

blaming the open primary system in Texas, and claiming that Democratic voters banded together to vote for the less conservative candidate - the one without the tRump Stamp of Approval.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Yep they're trying to cover his huge ass

Trump allies blame conservative leader for failed Texas endorsement

Donald Trump's advisers are angry at David McIntosh, president of the conservative Club for Growth, for persuading the former president to endorse a losing candidate in the special election for Texas' 6th District.

Why it matters: Susan Wright's defeat Tuesday in a Republican runoff with Navy veteran Jake Ellzey dealt a blow to Trump's aura of invincibility as a Republican kingmaker. It's critical to his 2022 midterm endorsements and continued hold on the GOP.

Trump advisers and allies have been ambivalent about the Club's advice and thought he should stay out of this Republican-on-Republican contest.

They take the long view and are protective of his successful record — so far — in GOP primary endorsements.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-allies-blame-conservative-leader-182801994.html

[PortTack]

13. It's always someone else's fault! Again, tfg endorsement equals wins ratio ain't that great

[Blue_true]

16. Well.

Their argument don’t take into account that a lot of republicans voted for the winner in a Republican leaning district. Democrats MAY have put the winner over the top, but republican voters had to put him into a position to win in that district.

[brush]

6. That fat f_ck is losing influence fast. The bipartisan...

infrastructure bill is about to pass (voting to send to floor tonight), McTurtle is on board. And the larger Democratic only bill will follow soon also.

He had four years and never got infrastructure done after many, many so-called infrastructure weeks. And need I mention covid at all?

He's toast but doesn't know it yet.

[MyOwnPeace]

9. I SO hope you are right.......

and there are SO many reasons to believe things are going that way - but dammit, he keeps coming up in the news - his idiot followers keep saying stupid things that way too many people believe - or at least the 'fake news' organizations keep telling everybody.

Just bring the big "MONTY PYTHON" foot down on him and get it all over with!!!!

[PortTack]

12. Geez I hope you're right..the country might actually be able to exhale

[Mersky]

7. Well, I know tRump's lost three voters in my family

Abbott’s lost four - my dad has never liked or voted for Trump, despite his old school GOP habit.

[dweller]

10. ETTD

the stank doesn’t fade away

✌🏻

[PortTack]

11. Hello...geez are they just now noticing tfg track record of endorsements to wins is abysmal?

[Whiskeytide]

14. How long before McConnell says "I hardly knew that ...

… Тяцмр guy. I think he use to bring me coffee”.

[certainot]

15. been sayin.... trumpism rots with limbaugh, who no longer points 1500 radio stations the

way trump/putin wants

they're all going separate ways and there is no way to get them all on the same page

[Mr.Bill]

17. Let's see...one term president, never won the popular vote, lost his home state and city,

lost the House, handed the Senate to the Democrats by endorsing two losers in Georgia. Sends a mob to smear shit all over the Capitol building and even that didn't work.

I'd be running away from him as fast as I could. Loser.

[gratuitous]

18. Trump? A loser?

Let's just take a look at that, shall we?

He won the election in 2016 because of an arcane set of rules in our Constitution designed to thwart the will of the people, and give inordinate power to a popular vote loser. Hmmm. Doesn't sound so triumphant when it's put that way. Anyway, Trump spent four years bragging about his electoral college total, which he continually got wrong, claiming 306 votes when he only got 304. Probably not the first time he's tried to convince people that 4 was really 6.

Anywho, in 2020, he ran for re-election and lost by an even bigger popular vote margin. This time, the winner actually did get 306 electoral college votes, which Trump has spent nine months trying to minimize and discount. Hmm, not just a loser but a sore loser.