Trump supporters carry flags near Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida on August 9, 2022. GREG LOVETT / AP
The primary, to be held in Wyoming on August 16, promises to be one of the most emblematic of the series of battles being waged in anticipation of the midterm elections slated for November in the United States. In this conservative bastion, Liz Cheney, heir to a Republican line prior to the arrival of Donald Trump, vice president of the commission of inquiry into the January 6 attack on the Capitol, could well join the cohort of candidates backed by opponents of the ex-president ; its failure would reaffirm Donald Trump’s control of the Republican apparatus and influence within the Grand Old Party rank and file more than a year and a half after leaving the White House.
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With a few exceptions, the candidates appointed by ex-President Donald Trump to the positions of senators, elected representatives, governors or secretaries of state – in particular those responsible for monitoring the organization of elections – tend to be more critical of opponents.
According to website Ballotpedia, of the twenty Republican gubernatorial nominees who received the billionaire’s endorsement, fifteen won; only three of them failed; two elections are pending. Seven states have yet to hold Republican primaries through November.
A third of the “election deniers”
The advantage of the “Trumpists” is equally obvious to the senators: 17 of the 21 candidates who received Trump’s favor prevailed. His influence on the candidates for the House of Representatives is even more massive: Of the around 140 personalities who benefited from his support, mostly outgoing elected representatives, only five have been beaten so far.
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Unsurprisingly, Donald Trump picks figures who publicly share his views – but doesn’t bother getting wet in the polls, which seem to be lost to the Democrats ahead of time. According to the website specializing in the processing of data related to the FiveThirtyEight elections, at least 70% of “their” candidates, like the former president, ensure that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen”. According to a July 18 tally compiled by this website, more than a third of the Republican candidates who will run for the Senate, House of Representatives, governor and attorney general posts in November will be or foreign ministers, are to varying degrees “election deniers” (election deniers).
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