Trump's Big Wins Are Hastening His 'Political Decline': Columnists

How Trump’s big wins are hastening his 'political decline'

President Donald Trump may already be a lame duck, thanks in large part to his unbroken primary endorsement successes. The Atlantic‘s Jonathan Lemire and Michael Scherer argue there are three main reasons Trump’s wins may hasten his “political decline.”Trump made 118 endorsements for the House, Senate, and governor’s races, and was undefeated in all. Many, however, were for uncontested races. And while Trump’s picks all won their respective race…

Trump's Big Wins Are Hastening His 'Political Decline': Columnists

President Donald Trump may already be a lame duck, thanks in large part to his unbroken primary endorsement successes. The Atlantic‘s Jonathan Lemire and Michael Scherer argue there are three main reasons Trump’s wins may hasten his “political decline.” Trump made 118 endorsements for the House, Senate, and governor’s races, and was undefeated in all. Many, however, were for uncontested races. And while Trump’s picks all won their respective rac…

Trump’s endorsement power keeps saving the wrong Republicans

For a decade, not one lukewarm Republican incumbent senator or governor has lost a primary and been replaced by a more conservative challenger under Donald Trump’s leadership of the GOP. That changed Tuesday night.Four-term U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) did not merely lose to state Attorney General Ken Paxton. He got routed by 28 points.The Paxton endorsement and Cornyn’s defeat should have marked a turning point in Trump’s political strategy.…

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Trumpiana: Battle of bluff, bluster and blunder!

Trump is back at his game as an Iran peace deal eludes him Donald Trump was enraged. Here he was working tirelessly to make America great again and prevent Iran from making a nuclear bomb. And there all these judges and other busybodies were putting spokes in the wheel. Yet amid tortuous peace talks with Iran, POTUS claimed a major victory, not against Tehran, but in a Republican civil war of his making with a Trump-backed Republican beating a f…