Some of the biggest election races are happening in States with flawed Republican candidates. (Think Dr. Oz and Herschel Walker.)
Since Trump only backs candidates who are ‘election deniers’, it has resulted in some weak candidates that the GOP leadership has privately criticized.
“Privately, they’ve been criticizing Trump’s choices for months,” Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said of Senate GOP leaders.
“Trump doesn’t care about the GOP. He cares about Trump,” said one top Republican consultant, who spoke on condition of anonymity. He pointed out that Trump ‘sabotaged’ two Georgia Senate runoffs in January 2021 by telling his followers that Georgia elections were rigged and could not be trusted.
Even staunch Republicans will admit that they are saddled with weak candidates in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia and New Hampshire.
If the GOP doesn’t take the Senate, they’ll have Trump to thank.