Trump Brings His Big Lie Playbook to the G.O.P. Primaries

When Ronna McDaniel, the chair of the Republican National Committee, appeared on Fox News on Wednesday morning to talk about the latest primary results, she was in a buoyant mood. In the eagerly watched Pennsylvania contests for the U.S. Senate, the Republicans had turned out about a hundred thousand more voters than the Democrats, demonstrating, McDaniel said, that the G.O.P. was the party with the energy on the ground.

When they did, Hemmer pointed out that the former President, in fact, had a mixed night. In the G.O.P. Senate primary in North Carolina, the three-term congressman Ted Budd, whom Trump endorsed, won easily. So did Doug Mastriano, a far-right state senator who scored a last-minute endorsement from Trump in the Pennsylvania gubernatorial primary, and who made 2020 election denialism a core part of his candidacy.

The complicating factor is that about one in four G.O.P. primary voters rejected Oz and McCormick in favor of the right-wing firebrand Kathy Barnette, a homophobic Christian fundamentalist, who once tweeted out a story with the headline “Pedophilia Is a Cornerstone of Islam.” Barnette’s strong showing—achieved with a far smaller budget than her opponents’—shows that many Trump hard-core supporters will support the most zealouscandidate, even one who doesn’t have Trump’s imprimatur.

Whatever establishment Republicans such as McDaniel privately think of the Faustian pact they have made with Trump, they aren’t going to break it anytime soon. Withat a forty-year high and Joe Biden languishing in the polls, they believe they are headed for a blowout victory in the midterms—and many Democrats privately agree with them.

Where’s Barry in the democrats races?

I’m still incredulous really that a political party in this country has at its core the most blatantly corrupt & amoral human being & that the people supporting him profess religious righteousness. Hypocrisy at its most dangerous pinnacle.

In both OH and PA senate primaries his endorsed candidates (when he could remember their names) drew a mere 20-25% of the total vote - meaning only 1/4 of Americans followed his instructions - a limp “power” at best.

“Most powerful” by default. They’re a team full of scrubs.

Conmen gotta stick together, right?

Data to support this? Sounds more like typical click bait. The media milking its favorite cash cow until the next cash cow.

one of the few instances where just believing something actually makes it true

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