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Trump learns he can be rational and places winning over friendships.
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Trump’s Endorsement Roll
This year, the former president gives his primary support to sensible candidates.
By Kimberley A. Strassel
Donald Trump can be unpredictable, but at least for the moment he is opting for strategy over self-sabotage.
Against all odds, Republican voters across the states are largely nominating candidates that have the best shot of winning this fall—instead of rowdy loudmouths who campaign against the “uniparty.” Efforts by Republican rebels to knock off House moderates or to nominate more of their own in open races are failing. The surprise factor in this campaign for November success? Mr. Trump.
The former president on Sunday offered a last-minute endorsement of Sam Brown, a retired Army captain recruited by Steve Daines, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, to challenge Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada. Tuesday’s GOP primary featured 11 other competitors, including Jeff Gunter, Mr. Trump’s ambassador to Iceland, whose own bid for the endorsement involved savaging Mr. Brown for disloyalty to Mr. Trump. Polls showed Mr. Brown has the best shot at beating Ms. Rosen, and Mr. Trump’s endorsement helped him to the nomination.
While the press won’t admit it, this is becoming more norm than aberration. Tim Sheehy—a former Navy SEAL and another Daines pick—last week won the GOP nomination to challenge Montana Sen. Jon Tester. Mr. Sheehy also got the Trump nod despite Rep. Matt Rosendale’s campaign of Trump-attention seeking (including a vote to depose former Speaker Kevin McCarthy) and despite prior Trump endorsements of Mr. Rosendale.
Two years ago, Mr. Trump savaged David McCormick’s run for the Pennsylvania Senate nomination in favor of TV personality Mehmet Oz. This April Mr. Trump gave Mr. McCormick full support in his challenge to Sen. Bob Casey. In March Mr. Trump endorsed former Rep. Mike Rogers for the Michigan Senate nomination, despite Mr. Rogers’s past criticism of him. According to a Thursday Fox News report, Mr. Trump is even endorsing Larry Hogan, the party’s moderate (and therefore electable) nominee for Senate in Maryland.
Same in the House. In numerous recent primaries, incumbents and other candidates have fended off challenges from volatile contenders backed by Freedom Caucus members—thanks either to a Trump endorsement or Mr. Trump’s decision to stay neutral. They include South Carolina’s William Timmons, Illinois’s Mike Bost, West Virginia’s Carol Miller and Nebraska’s Don Bacon. Virginians next week will choose between House Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good—who also voted to oust Mr. McCarthy and is backed by rabble rouser Rep. Matt Gaetz—and state Sen. John McGuire. Trump is vocally supporting the latter.
These Trump plays are a notable break with his past quixotic endorsements, which last cycle landed the party with Mr. Oz, Herschel Walker, Blake Masters—and the triumphant return of Chuck Schumer as Senate majority leader. The plays are also at odds with Mr. Trump’s image as even more unleashed, even more fixated on loyalty than in past campaigns.
A great deal of credit for the Senate course goes to Mr. Daines, who doggedly and skillfully continues to walk a minefield of competing party factions, even as he’s pushed and cemented top recruits. The Montanan understands that, GOP divisions aside, Republicans want to win. That requires some party leadership in the primary stage, and getting the top guy on board.
But whispering amounts to little if it falls on deaf ears, and Mr. Trump has decided to recognize that this election is about far more than a grudge match—about who has the most presidential votes on Nov. 5. It’s sunk in that any future Trump legacy will hinge on what comes in the four years afterward.
Trump 45 enjoyed a GOP Senate all four years and a Republican House for two. He was able to pass a tax reform, install a cabinet that dramatically slashed regulation, and reconstitute the Supreme Court. A Trump 47 would be dead in the water with a Democratic Senate that blocks his executive and judicial appointments and kills any possibility of legislation (even via budget reconciliation).
Mr. Trump’s House endorsements suggest he’s also looking beyond simply retaining that chamber, toward the bigger question of governance. Plenty of Republicans lobbied him in recent primaries to back their insurgent candidates against incumbents or opponents branded “establishment.” Yet a GOP that keeps or increases its House majority via the election of more bomb throwers is a House that continues to sit and swivel in its own chaos—as it has for the past eight months. A Trump who can’t seek re-election may have less sway over members than did a first-term Trump.
The primary season still has months to go, and weather is always changeable. But for the moment, the Trump team—including its captain—is quietly acknowledging that candidate quality matters after all.
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Beyond Any Type Debate
Essay, By Dick Berkowitz
Trump is proving, perhaps, he has finally learned winning again is more important than combing his ego and nominating friends who cannot be elected.
A recent WSJ Op Ed, by Kim Strassel, says no less and, if she is right, as I believe she is, Trump should win an overwhelming victory not only because of this but because of an entire list of reasons which prove Biden is incapable of "rational leadership."
A recent WSJ Op Ed, by Kim Strassel, says no less and, if she is right, as I believe she is, Trump should win an overwhelming victory not only because of this but because of an entire list of reasons which prove Biden is incapable of "rational leadership."
Biden never was an intelligent politician, in fact, he has always been a chameleon willing to embrace/grab progressive clouds and capable of being led around by his nose. In the past three plus years, he has allowed Obama holdovers and other radicals to direct his feet into tragic blunders which have made our nation the laughing stock, not only our Western allies, but the entire world.
In doing so, he has also endangered our nation to potential terrorism, attacks by other powerful adversaries like China, Russia, Iran etc. and weakened our military with ridiculous efforts of socialization. The reason our military is one of the best is because the military is not democratic but autocratic, patriotic, voluntary and dedicated,
In his desire to transform the Democrat Party into an unbeatable one, Biden has opened our borders to flood levels hoping, through illegal immigrant voting and registration, he could disrupt our one last vestige of acceptable and honest elections.
To make matters worse, Biden embraced/listened to his own ego and undid most everything Trump accomplished that worked. All kitchen table purchases are higher due to inflation or lack of supply. Inflation is mostly man made but one cannot deny Fauci's stupidity of shutting down America's entire economy, the disruption of the supply chain and other unnecessary acts by Biden because of his hatred of Trump, including disavowal of The Abraham Accords and increasing funding of Iran's treasury.
Even Biden's assistance to Ukraine was ineffectual because of protracted hesitancy and the Hamas War could have been over had he not whipsawed Bibi's desire to be persistent. We know Biden has a historic track record of being consistently wrong since "birth."
Now, we also have learned the entire family is allegedly corrupt. Consequently, were Biden's corrupt Department of Justice willing to release critical documents even our factual proof of corruption could be revealed.
I have yet to mention the accelerating pace of Biden's downhill slide in physical and mental acuity which is patently evident. There is only so much The White House can do to hide this from us "deplorables. We may not be as vocal as reality demands but we are not stupid.
The answer to critical change has always been through the ballot box and this is why Biden has encouraged pre-election changes that have caught the torpid/patrician GOP with their undergarments around their shoe laces.
I understand American's distaste for Trump. However, it is time to realize our entire republic is going down the tube if we re-elect Biden.
In doing so, he has also endangered our nation to potential terrorism, attacks by other powerful adversaries like China, Russia, Iran etc. and weakened our military with ridiculous efforts of socialization. The reason our military is one of the best is because the military is not democratic but autocratic, patriotic, voluntary and dedicated,
In his desire to transform the Democrat Party into an unbeatable one, Biden has opened our borders to flood levels hoping, through illegal immigrant voting and registration, he could disrupt our one last vestige of acceptable and honest elections.
To make matters worse, Biden embraced/listened to his own ego and undid most everything Trump accomplished that worked. All kitchen table purchases are higher due to inflation or lack of supply. Inflation is mostly man made but one cannot deny Fauci's stupidity of shutting down America's entire economy, the disruption of the supply chain and other unnecessary acts by Biden because of his hatred of Trump, including disavowal of The Abraham Accords and increasing funding of Iran's treasury.
Even Biden's assistance to Ukraine was ineffectual because of protracted hesitancy and the Hamas War could have been over had he not whipsawed Bibi's desire to be persistent. We know Biden has a historic track record of being consistently wrong since "birth."
Now, we also have learned the entire family is allegedly corrupt. Consequently, were Biden's corrupt Department of Justice willing to release critical documents even our factual proof of corruption could be revealed.
I have yet to mention the accelerating pace of Biden's downhill slide in physical and mental acuity which is patently evident. There is only so much The White House can do to hide this from us "deplorables. We may not be as vocal as reality demands but we are not stupid.
The answer to critical change has always been through the ballot box and this is why Biden has encouraged pre-election changes that have caught the torpid/patrician GOP with their undergarments around their shoe laces.
I understand American's distaste for Trump. However, it is time to realize our entire republic is going down the tube if we re-elect Biden.
I submit that is a circumstance beyond any type of debate
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