Republicans, are you tired of losing yet?
I have written several commentaries lampooning how “everything Trump hails fails.” Sure enough, getting Donald Trump’s political endorsement has become the kiss of electoral death. No political leader in US history has had more candidates they endorse lose on election night.
Democrats are projected to notch several key wins across Tuesday’s elections, indicating both that abortion remains a motivating factor for voters and that the party can remain successful, including in red states, even in the face of President Joe Biden’s poor approval ratings.
(ABC News, November 8, 2023)
Here’s to women voters. Because even the Republican ones in red states showed Republican men that they are smart enough to know that abortion rights are more important than whitewashing history and banning books.
It’s also noteworthy that every Republican who lost last night conceded gracefully. That’s how democracy works. Yet every one of those Republicans is selling their soul to support Trump despite his wilful refusal to concede his loss. That’s how democracy dies.
Of course, Trump famously promised that Republicans were going to get tired of winning. Republicans hoped they would achieve just that with his leadership and endorsement.
The problem is that Trump is notorious for breaking campaign promises – from building a border wall to returning blue-collar manufacturing jobs. Indeed, his record suggests that Republicans should be tired of losing.
This Biggest loser still loses no support
Trump famously boasted that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any support. But it seems he could keep breaking his promises and causing Republicans to lose elections and still not lose any support.
Only that explains Republicans still coveting Trump’s endorsement as if it were an anointing by the Almighty God. But Daniel Cameron epitomized their paradoxical loyalty and cult-like devotion this election cycle.
Daniel Cameron, Trump’s poster boy for losing
2024 GOP presidential hopeful and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Tuesday night that failed Republican Kentucky gubernatorial nominee Daniel Cameron made a ‘huge mistake’ by associating himself with former President Trump and accepting his endorsement in the race.
‘Daniel Cameron made a huge mistake by embracing Donald Trump and selling his soul to him. And that’s what he did,’ Christie said on CNN after Cameron’s projected loss. ‘And the voters of Kentucky, a very red state, as you noted, gave their verdict on politicians who sell their soul to Donald Trump.’
(The Hill, November 8, 2023)
True to form, Trump is now pretending he never knew Cameron. Instead, he’s blaming this latest loss on the lingering stench of Cameron’s Kentucky mentor, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The irony, of course, is that when Trump endorsed him, Cameron made a big show of dissing McConnell to hail “Trump’s culture of winning.” That should say all anyone needs to know about this sycophantic Trumpian mascot.
As it happens, though, I said all I care to about Cameron over three years ago in “Channeling His ‘Uncle Thomas,’ Black Prosecutor Says White Cops Ambushed Breonna Taylor in Self Defense” on September 28, 2020.
Therefore, I will simply restate my contention that Cameron is just like his Uncle Clarence Thomas – only in spades. That’s no conspiracy, and it’s why he deserved to lose. Indeed, here’s to Breonna Taylor. May she finally rest in peace.
In any event, this is how ringmaster Trump is taking the Grand Old Party’s political circus into the 2024 elections. It begs the question:
What will it take for Republicans to break the chains of Trump’s cursed endorsements, and will endorsing himself prove the most cursed of them all?
Think about that, and stay tuned.