Donald Trump is doing everything he can to hurt Republican chances in 2022
“If we do not clear up the Presidential Election Fraud of 2020 (which we have now totally and conclusively documented), Republicans won’t be voting in ’22 or ’24. It’s the single most necessary factor for Republicans to do.”
Should you constructed a press release in a lab, you’d be hard-pressed to make it extra counterproductive to Republican efforts to win again the Home and Senate majorities they misplaced within the Trump years.
What Trump is saying, fairly merely, is that until and till he’s restored as president — on account of (nonexistent) voter fraud throughout the 2020 presidential election — Republican voters ought to withhold their votes within the 2022 midterms (and the 2024 presidential election).
It is paying homage to the “technique” utilized by Trump’s “authorized” workforce throughout the Georgia Senate runoffs earlier this yr.
Now, Trump is lending his voice to the “do not vote” crowd. And he is doing so at a decidedly unhealthy time — as Republicans fairly clearly have the momentum nationally, fueled by President Joe Biden’s dipping approval scores, the continued Covid-19 pandemic and, of late, provide chain points that threaten to bathroom down the American economic system.
That nationwide atmosphere — coupled with historic information that implies Republicans are primed to make pickups subsequent November — have GOPers extra optimistic than at any time since Trump’s loss in 2020.
Enter Trump — who appears hellbent on slowing (or stopping) that momentum as he pursues his personal private vendettas and agenda.
Along with urging Republican voters to not vote in 2022 until the 2020 outcomes are overturned, Trump has spent the 9 months of his post-presidency conducting an all-out warfare on fellow Republicans who he believes have grievously wronged him.
Trump has endorsed main challengers to the likes of Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski and rejoiced within the retirement of Ohio Rep. Anthony Gonzalez. All three voted to question Trump following the January 6 riot on the US Capitol.
Taken as an entire, it is laborious to see how Trump might be much less useful to Republicans as they put collectively the items of a marketing campaign they hope restores their majorities within the Home and Senate. And why? As a result of Trump is all about Trump. He does what he desires — and what he thinks advantages him politically — first, second and all the time.