Thursday 10 November 2022 01:08 PM Republican strategists call Don a 'huge loser' for putting his 'selfish ... trends now
Republican finger-pointing has been in full force since their disappointing midterms election night where an expected red wave hit a blue wall.
In states where abortion and election deniers were on the ballot, the Democrats fared far better than their counterparts.
What has become apparent is that the election was not just a referendum on President Biden - who has dismal approval ratings and has been blamed for the deteriorating economic situation - but also the Former President Donald Trump.
Republican operators are fighting mad at 'huge loser' Trump after the the elections failed to live up to its expectations with the balance of power in Congress still hanging in the balance as of Thursday morning.
The GOP were expected to take both the Senate and House, but now it looks likely the outcome won't be known until a Georgia runoff election in December.
Analysts are saying Trump fared poorly on Tuesday, and the candidates he backed could have cost the Republicans. Trump has remained steadfast and has said most of the candidates he endorsed have won.
'Trump came out as a huge loser yesterday. His endorsed House and Senate candidates consistently underperformed all over the country and he may have cost us the House and the Senate for the third straight election cycle,' GOP strategist Jim Dornan told DailyMail.com.
He noted that Trump had cost the party 'safe' seats in Washington and Michigan by promoting weak primary candidates as political payback against those who voted for impeachment, who include outgoing Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., and Jamie Heurrera Beutler, R-Wash.
Republican operators are fighting mad at 'huge loser' Donald Trump after the GOP failed to live up to its expectations in the midterm elections.
'The MyPillow-ization of the GOP by Trump brought bad candidates up and down the ballot, with missed opportunities at every turn,' he said, referring to MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, who was front and center to Trump's election fraud claims
'If he is smart, he will postpone any 2024 announcement next week. Rank and file Republicans are growing weary of his act,' Dornan said, predicting GOP donors would rally around Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who sailed into re-election on Wednesday days after Trump dubbed him 'Ron DeSanctimonious.'
Republicans rode high into Election Day after polling consistently showed Americans cared first and foremost about the economy and consistently showed they trusted Republicans to get finances back on track. But the red wave they predicted is looking more like a narrow lead in the House and a potential loss to Democrats in the Senate.
Trump played down his part in the losses on Truth Social, but behind closed doors, he allegedly was 'screaming' and blaming others including his wife who allegedly talked him into endorsing unelectable candidates.
On Wednesday Trump acknowledged Tuesday's results were 'disappointing' for Republicans but counted them as a win for himself.
'While in certain ways yesterday's election was somewhat disappointing, from my personal standpoint it was a very big victory - 219 WINS and 16 Losses in the General - Who has ever done better than that?,' he said, ignoring the fact that many of those wins were in GOP strongholds.
Out of the 39 actually competitive races where Trump endorsed candidates, his choices so far have won 12 races, lost 11 and 16 have yet to be decided, as of Wednesday afternoon.
Nowhere is Trump's fingerprint more apparent than the loss of the Pennsylvania Senate race. Pennsylvanians had long complained that Dr. Mehmet did not live in Pennsylvania and did not represent their values, but Trump pressed forward, launching the celebrity heart surgeon to the front of the primary. The race has been called for Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman as Oz trails him by three points.
In New Hampshire, Trump-backed Don Bolduc lost to incumbent Dem. Maggie Hassan, and Trump gloated on Truth Social that Bolduc lost because he wavered on election fraud. But in Wisconsin and Ohio, Republican incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson and newcomer J.D. Vance, both of whom had Trump's backing, were able to fight off Democratic challengers, as was North Carolina Rep. Ted Budd in his Senate race.
In Arizona, Trump-endorsed Blake Masters is trailing Democratic incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan, though not enough votes have been counted to call the race.
In Georgia, Trump-backed Herschel Walker will go into a runoff with Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock. But both GOP Gov. Brian Kemp and Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger handily won their races, despite Trump's attacks after they refused to toe the line on election fraud. Their outperformance of Walker signals a large number of ticket splitters could not bring themselves to vote for the ex-NFL star.
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