{"id":1394534,"date":"2022-03-22T15:29:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T19:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394534"},"modified":"2022-03-22T15:29:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T19:29:55","slug":"republican-operatives-increasingly-skeptical-of-trump-endorsed-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-operatives-increasingly-skeptical-of-trump-endorsed-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Operatives Increasingly Skeptical Of Trump-Endorsed Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublican-operatives-increasingly-skeptical-of-trump-endorsed-candidates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394534&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republicans are increasingly skeptical of whether GOP candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump can be victorious in heated primaries, The Hill reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think people are, rightfully so, paying attention to who he\u2019s endorsing,\u201d Saul Anuzis, a longtime Republican strategist and former Michigan GOP chairman, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/599091-republicans-ramp-up-support-for-candidates-snubbed-by-trump?rl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> the Hill. \u201cBut it\u2019s important to note that, in general, endorsing a candidate doesn\u2019t necessarily mean you\u2019re going to determine who the winner is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s a sense among a lot of folks that some of these people that the president has endorsed \u2014 he\u2019s using his own, very specific criteria that\u2019s not always in line with what a good candidate looks like,\u201d another Republican strategist <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/599091-republicans-ramp-up-support-for-candidates-snubbed-by-trump?rl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> the Hill. \u201cYou look at a lot of the candidates he\u2019s endorsed, some of them are struggling now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some GOP figures are openly supporting candidates <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/14\/donald-trump-gop-republican-party-grip-slipping-polls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump<\/a> rejected. Former Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DARbA43JpME\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">headlined<\/a> a March 11 fundraiser for South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace, who Haley endorsed before Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/21\/nancy-mace-katie-arrington-donald-trump-south-carolina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">threw his support<\/a> behind challenger Katie Arrington.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7395987\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7395987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep Nancy Mace (R-SC) speaks with reporters after voting in the affirmative to hold former Trump adviser Stephen Bannon in criminal contempt at the U.S. Capitol Building on October 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Retiring Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby, too, is preparing to transfer $6 million to a political action committee backing former aide Katie Britt, who is facing Trump-endorsed Alabama Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/07\/donald-trump-endorses-mo-brooks-alabama-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mo Brooks<\/a>, in the race to succeed Shelby, the Hill reported. Trump, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/mo-brooks-is-disappointing-trump-mulls-pulling-alabama-senate-endorsement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> the Washington Examiner that Brooks had been a \u201cdisappointing\u201d candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has also been slow to provide funds to his endorsed candidates, Keith Naughton, a veteran Republican strategist, told the Hill. While Save America, the former president\u2019s PAC, ended February with more than $110 million in the bank, it didn\u2019t donate any money to candidates Trump endorsed, the Hill reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s not spending it,\u201d Naughton said, according to the Hill. \u201cThat\u2019s his money and he wants to reserve it for himself.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/22\/vicky-hartzler-scores-another-endorsement-frontrunner-loses-momentum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Vicky Hartzler Scores Another Endorsement As Frontrunner Loses Momentum)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA big part of his aura is that he\u2019s a winner. That\u2019s his No. 1 thing,\u201d Naughton said. \u201cThis is a big problem for him. If his endorsed candidates start losing, it really dents his aura as a winner \u2014 with voters, with Republican donors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans are increasingly skeptical of whether GOP candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump can be victorious in heated primaries, The Hill reported.\u201cI think people are, rightfully so, paying attention<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}