The GOP needs to stop lying to itself about its Trump losing problem
Zachary Faria
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At some point, Republicans need to look their losing problem in the face. The issue is Donald Trump, and Republicans are going to continue to lose until they recognize that fact.
This is no more obvious than in Kentucky, where Trump-backed gubernatorial candidate Daniel Cameron lost to incumbent Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear. This is despite the fact that Republicans won every other statewide race in Kentucky on the same ballot, including the races for Attorney General and Secretary of State. In fact, of the three, the highest performing Republican was incumbent Secretary of State Michael Adams, who rejected Trump’s stolen election nonsense.
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Trumpworld will undoubtedly disown Cameron and claim that he was an acolyte of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, but that belies how Cameron presented himself the entire race. His closing message to voters was to tout his Trump endorsement, while neither Adams nor incoming Attorney General Russell Coleman was endorsed by Trump. Indeed, Trump even boasted that Cameron is “not really ‘a McConnell guy.’”
This comes after Trump-endorsed candidates, particularly those who embraced his stolen election lies, crashed and burned in the 2022 midterm elections. President Joe Biden is wildly unpopular, voters hate the direction of the country, and for the last two years those voters have kept backing Democrats over Republicans. The common denominator remains the perpetual loser that is Donald Trump.
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If the last two years are not proof that Trump’s current general election polling over Biden is a mirage, nothing will be. Every major GOP loss from the last two years can be directly traced back to Trump and the abysmal candidates he has supported or the candidates he has dragged down with the stink of his stolen election absurdities. How many more times do GOP voters want to smash their heads into a wall and hand Democrats the keys to power?
The GOP presidential debate on Wednesday will feature two serious GOP contenders who can actually win a general election and aren’t the same age as Biden. One of those two, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, won a historic reelection in Florida last year as Trump’s anointed candidates flamed out of their own races (and as Trump attacked DeSantis right before the election). Losing is a choice, and Republican voters will choose to continue losing if they choose to nominate Trump once again.