Groomed? Maybe. More likely he was crazy enough to volunteer for Trumpism.
Hard to say. Usually those interested in a political career start out locally. It seems though like the Cult prefers to find politically-inexperienced-but-malleable wonks and convince them to seek a high-ranked political position. That whole nonsense about "Trump is great because he's a businessman, not a career politician" thing might have worked for him but it doesn't seem to be flying any more among non-Toadstool voters. It didn't work with Tudor Dixon up here in MI, for sure.

