signalmankenneth
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Go figure? And those GOP candidates sucking up to Trump must embrace the big lie too?!! The sad part of this is, Trump is not even a man, it's like trying to placate a seven year old child?!!
Former President Donald Trump and Kari Lake, whom Trump is supporting in the Arizona's gubernatorial race, speak during a rally at the Canyon Moon Ranch festival grounds in Florence, Arizona, southeast of Phoenix, on Jan. 15, 2022.
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s attempt to overthrow American democracy and the resulting criminal investigations that appear be to closing in on him and his inner circle have done little to cool the ardor of Republicans falling over one another to win the former president’s seal of approval.
GOP candidates for the House, Senate, governorships, statewide offices and even state legislatures are putting hundreds of thousands of dollars into his cash registers as they seek his endorsement in coming elections — notwithstanding his failed attempt to remain in power despite losing his own.
“Don’t we all miss him, folks? I know I do,” said Ted Budd, who received Trump’s blessing over several others in the North Carolina Republican Senate primary, at a recent rally. “I am proud to have President Trump’s endorsement in this race!”
Budd’s campaign, which has already spent $26,652 at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, did not respond to a HuffPost query about why he would want the help of someone who tried to suspend or even end the constitutional republic.
GOP pollster Neil Newhouse, though, said the reason candidates still want that endorsement is quite simple: “He has an enduring base of supporters within the GOP who won’t be bowed.”
“Trump is still popular with 90% of Republican voters,” added a GOP consultant for a 2022 congressional candidate who does not accept Trump’s claims of a stolen election but wants an endorsement anyway. “His endorsement is useful in winning those voters,” the consultant said on condition of anonymity.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a historian at New York University who has been sounding the alarm about Trump’s autocratic tendencies for years, has an alternate explanation.
“The GOP’s continuing anxiety to curry favor from Trump testifies to its evolution into a lawless party. It has absorbed Trump’s authoritarian values and methods, meaning anything is legitimate if it is in the service of gaining and maintaining power,” she said.
Trump repeatedly lied about the 2020 presidential election, claiming it had been “stolen” from him, and even considered deploying the U.S. military to help him remain in office. Eventually, he tried to coerce his own vice president, using an angry mob of his supporters as leverage, into invalidating the results in several states that Democrat Joe Biden had won, and simply declaring Trump the winner.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-candidates-clamor-approval-man-100027768.html
Former President Donald Trump and Kari Lake, whom Trump is supporting in the Arizona's gubernatorial race, speak during a rally at the Canyon Moon Ranch festival grounds in Florence, Arizona, southeast of Phoenix, on Jan. 15, 2022.
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s attempt to overthrow American democracy and the resulting criminal investigations that appear be to closing in on him and his inner circle have done little to cool the ardor of Republicans falling over one another to win the former president’s seal of approval.
GOP candidates for the House, Senate, governorships, statewide offices and even state legislatures are putting hundreds of thousands of dollars into his cash registers as they seek his endorsement in coming elections — notwithstanding his failed attempt to remain in power despite losing his own.
“Don’t we all miss him, folks? I know I do,” said Ted Budd, who received Trump’s blessing over several others in the North Carolina Republican Senate primary, at a recent rally. “I am proud to have President Trump’s endorsement in this race!”
Budd’s campaign, which has already spent $26,652 at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, did not respond to a HuffPost query about why he would want the help of someone who tried to suspend or even end the constitutional republic.
GOP pollster Neil Newhouse, though, said the reason candidates still want that endorsement is quite simple: “He has an enduring base of supporters within the GOP who won’t be bowed.”
“Trump is still popular with 90% of Republican voters,” added a GOP consultant for a 2022 congressional candidate who does not accept Trump’s claims of a stolen election but wants an endorsement anyway. “His endorsement is useful in winning those voters,” the consultant said on condition of anonymity.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a historian at New York University who has been sounding the alarm about Trump’s autocratic tendencies for years, has an alternate explanation.
“The GOP’s continuing anxiety to curry favor from Trump testifies to its evolution into a lawless party. It has absorbed Trump’s authoritarian values and methods, meaning anything is legitimate if it is in the service of gaining and maintaining power,” she said.
Trump repeatedly lied about the 2020 presidential election, claiming it had been “stolen” from him, and even considered deploying the U.S. military to help him remain in office. Eventually, he tried to coerce his own vice president, using an angry mob of his supporters as leverage, into invalidating the results in several states that Democrat Joe Biden had won, and simply declaring Trump the winner.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-candidates-clamor-approval-man-100027768.html