Donald Trump is celebrating after several of the candidates he endorsed in primary elections emerged victorious.....CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE>>>
“A BIG NIGHT IN AMERICA. I was 24 for 24 in Endorsements, with numerous candidates that won being long shots. Very happy! Congratulations to All, do a great job for America!” the former president wrote on Truth Social.
Trump had endorsed multiple candidates running for the same job in numerous primary races in Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, and Washington.
Trump-endorsed candidate Lieutenant Governor Mike Kehoe won the Missouri governor’s race on Tuesday, defeating two other conservative candidates endorsed by the former president. They included Missouri’s secretary of state, Jay Ashcroft, the son of the former Missouri governor and U.S. senator and attorney general John Ashcroft.
Meanwhile, in Missouri’s attorney general race, Trump endorsed both incumbent Andrew Bailey and his challenger, Trump attorney Will Scharf, with Bailey winning last night’s primary, winning 63 percent to Scharf’s 37 percent.
Scharf later conceded and endorsed Bailey.
“Tonight we came up short. We always knew that challenging an incumbent and the Jefferson City establishment would be difficult, and despite the tremendous grassroots energy around our campaign Andrew Bailey has certainly earned a full term in office. He has my unqualified support in the general election, and I hope that he will do Missouri proud in the coming years,” he wrote in a post on X.
Trump also secured victories in Michigan’s U.S. Senate race, where former U.S. Representative Mike Rogers won, and in Kansas’ 2nd Congressional District, where former Attorney General Derek Schmidt won.
“An America First Patriot and a true friend of MAGA, Derek is now running for Congress, where he will work tirelessly to Grow the Economy, Secure the Border, Uphold the Rule of Law, Support our Veterans, Strengthen our Military, Defend our always under siege Second Amendment, and Champion our Incredible Farmers and Ranchers,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post endorsing Schmidt. “Derek Schmidt has my Complete and Total Endorsement – HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!”
The former president endorsed Rogers, a former FBI agent and CNN commentator, in March. In 2018, Rogers said Trump was “fundamentally wrong” in his assessment of Russian President Vladimir Putin, while also calling Trump’s political tactics “destructive” and saying he would not commit to supporting Trump for president in 2024 if he is the GOP nominee.
Meanwhile, in Washington state, where Trump endorsed multiple candidates, the races have still not been called.
In Washington’s 4th congressional district, Trump is seeking to unseat GOP Representative Dan Newhouse, who is one of only two Republican congressmen left who voted to impeach Trump.
In that race, he endorsed Newhouse’s challengers Jerrod Sessler and Tiffany Smiley.
Smiley has criticized Newhouse’s stance on Trump after he became one of 10 Republicans in the House who voted to impeach Trump in 2021 after the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.
At the time, Newhouse argued that Trump’s actions were a violation of his oath to uphold the Constitution. By encouraging the attack on the legislative branch, Trump undermined the democratic process and the rule of law, he said.
He is now one of only two GOP congressmen remaining in the House after the 2022 midterms, along with Representative David Valadao.
“If Dan Newhouse stays in, who’s to say he’s not going to impeach Trump again?” Smiley previously said of Newhouse. She added later: “It almost feels delusional, a little bit. Like, ‘How are you going to go back to D.C. and think that you will have the ear of the President?'”
Sessler has also labeled Newhouse an “impeacher” and has run on him not being loyal to Trump. Newhouse “betrayed his voters by joining Democrats to impeach President Trump in 2021,” Sessler wrote, according to materials posted on his campaign website.
In Washington’s 3rd District, which encompasses the southernmost portion of Western Washington, Trump-endorsed Joe Kent is looking to unseat Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. The race has not yet been called.
A Northwest Progressive Institute poll in June found that Perez and Kent are neck and neck among nearly 650 likely voters who live in the district, with Kent at 46 percent to Perez’s 45...CONTINUE READING>>
