Mod: If the GOP now hates Trump this much, why aren't they helping the J6 Commission and Justice Department put him in Guantanamo? 'Rage like I've never seen': Conservatives turn on Trump after GOP underperforms during midterms (Raw Storylink): Conservatives are starting to blame Donald Trump after a Republican"red wave" failed to materialize during the midterm elections.
After years of
Trump choosing candidates and demanding parties back them, conservatives are starting to question whether hitching their wagon to the former president is worth it after all.
Commentators have taken the election results as a sign, Fox News reported Wednesday. "Commentators argued that Trump had endorsed outlandish candidates who turned easy victories into close races, and close races into losses," wrote reporter Anders Hagstrom.
The contrast between
Trump and
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is one that conservatives are also seeing.
DeSantis won in traditionally blue areas of
Florida. Granted,
Democrats all but abandoned the state for other candidates around the country.
"All the chatter on my conservative and
GOP channels is rage at
Trump like I've never seen," said
Michael Brendan Dougherty, a senior writer at
National Review"'The one guy he attacked before
Election Day was
DeSantis— the clear winner, meanwhile, all his guys are s---ing the bed.'"
"GOP Source tells me after tonight, with Trump candidates underperforming and DeSantis winning by double digits, 2024 is a 'free for all,'" said RealClearPolitics reporter Phil Wegmann. "'Everybody in the water. If you want to take on Trump, he’s never been weaker.'"
Mod: When the going gets tough, Donald blames his wife.
'Furious' Trump is pinning the blame on Melania for his decision to back Dr. Oz (
Raw Storylink): Still more reports are coming in about former
President Donald Trump's angry reactions to seeing some of his hand-picked candidates face defeat during Tuesday's midterm elections.
TheNew York Times' Maggie Haberman chimed in on
Twitter with her own dispatch that claimed the twice-impeached former president is now even blaming former first lady
Melania Trump for some of his own poor endorsements.
"
Trump is indeed furious this morning, particularly about
Mehmet Oz, and is blaming everyone who advised him to back
Oz -- including his wife, describing it as not her best decision, according to people close to him,"
Haberman writes.
Haberman also reports that the losses of Trump-backed candidates such as Oz and Don Bolduc may impact his decision to announce his third presidential campaign next week.
Mod: There is more at either one of those links.
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