{"id":1731720,"date":"2022-11-09T09:47:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T14:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1731720"},"modified":"2022-11-09T09:47:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T14:47:45","slug":"with-trump-the-big-loser-in-22-midterms-desantis-now-frontrunner-for-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/with-trump-the-big-loser-in-22-midterms-desantis-now-frontrunner-for-24\/","title":{"rendered":"With Trump The Big Loser In \u201922 Midterms, DeSantis Now Frontrunner For \u201924"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fwith-trump-the-big-loser-in-22-midterms-desantis-now-frontrunner-for-24%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=1731720&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>He wasn\u2019t even on the ballot, but former President Donald Trump was the big loser on Election Day 2022.<\/p>\n<p>A plethora of pre-Election Day polls showed Republicans with a healthy lead, and pollsters went so far as to predict a \u2018red tsunami.\u2019 Instead, it was more like a pink trickle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely not a Republican wave, that\u2019s for darn sure,\u201d Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said as the results came in Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>With ballots nationwide still being counted, the GOP held a small lead in the House \u2014 although polls had shown a much heftier pickup, as high as 40 seats. The Senate was even tighter, a toss-up, with Democrats holding 48 seats and the GOP 47 seats and five still up for grabs.<\/p>\n<p>But the losses were coming fast and furious for Republicans \u2014 Herschel Walker, Mehmet Oz, Donald Bolduc, and Blake Masters all appearing headed for defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had tried to play kingmaker throughout the midterm campaigns, endorsing a slew of candidates across the nation as he preps a return run for president in 2024. So while he wasn\u2019t on the ballot, his virality was clearly on the line \u2014 and he came up impotent.<\/p>\n<p>But Trump being Trump, he says he deserves none of the blame.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I think if they win, I should get all the credit,\u201d Trump said Tuesday as Americans cast their ballots. \u201cIf they lose, I should not be blamed at all, but it\u2019ll probably be just the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is perhaps the most Trumpian statement ever. But in the coming aftermath, Trump <em>will<\/em> get much of the blame, and his power is greatly diminished. Gov. Ron DeSantis, who won re-election as governor of Florida in a landslide, is now the de facto king of the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis crushed his opponent Charlie Crist by nearly 20 points, some 1.5 million votes. His coattails were huge: He pulled embattled Sen. Marco Rubio to victory (58% to 41% over Democrat Val Deming), along with four first-time Republican candidates for the House.<\/p>\n<p>Trump pictures himself as The Don \u2014 sometimes in the vein of Don Corleone, the mob leader of \u201cThe Godfather\u201d \u2014 squelching dissent with threats and intimidation. But his power was so diminished on Election Day that Republicans openly blamed him for the dismal showing, caring little about retribution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the time that the Republican Party needs to ask themselves, are they going to continue to nominate poor-quality candidates to appease Donald Trump?\u201d former Trump White House Communications Director Alyssa Farah Griffin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/top-trump-official-buries-former-president-over-midterms-failures-this-man-is-a-loser\/\">said<\/a> on CNN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want the Republican Party to thrive, we\u2019ve got to just finally speak out and say, \u2018This man is a loser, he lost 2020, he\u2019s about to\u2013you know, he\u2019s losing a seat that is winnable this time, in time towards looking what the future might look like,&#8217;\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was so weak that his hand-picked candidate, Dr. Oz, got drubbed by a guy who suffered a stroke over the summer and could barely utter a coherent sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative commentator Scott Jennings fingered Trump as the chief culprit of the disaster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a potential narrative out of this night that if you\u2019re a discerning Republican voter trying to figure out the future, direction of this party, we once again learn that Trump is not a national winner for the Republicans,\u201d Jennings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-senate-republican-leadership-change-warns-potential-2024-gop-candidates-against-running\">said<\/a> on Fox News. \u201cBut DeSantis may be the next evolution of someone who can marry what you like about Trump but also recover some people that went away from the party during Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoy, if I were Ron DeSantis, or someone who wanted to help her understand this, that is the message I would be on tomorrow, which is \u2018My way is the way to a national majority. His way is the way to a national minority,&#8217;\u201d Jennings said.<\/p>\n<p>Predictably, Democrats were quick to target Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you have to say Donald Trump has now presided over two disastrous midterm elections,\u201d former Obama campaign strategist David Plouffe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/top-trump-official-buries-former-president-over-midterms-failures-this-man-is-a-loser\/\">said<\/a> on MSNBC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn his only one as president in 2018, Trump\u2019s party lost control of the House, although it gained U.S. Senate seats thanks in part to a favorable map. In 2022, Republicans appeared poised to make huge gains and seize control of both chambers of Congress, but in the early hours of Wednesday morning, it still remained unclear if they would even take control of the House, a seemingly unthinkable proposition last week,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA bunch of reasons for that. But at the top of them is Donald Trump. He\u2019s deeply unpopular, he supported a bunch of horrible Senate candidates who may end up coughing up the football here,\u201d Plouffe said.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Trump knows that DeSantis is a major force. And like the mafioso don, he\u2019s already trying to intimidate the Florida governor.<\/p>\n<p>On Election Day, Trump said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-senate-republican-leadership-change-warns-potential-2024-gop-candidates-against-running\">interview<\/a> with Fox News that if DeSantis does run, \u201cI would tell you things about him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He wasn\u2019t even on the ballot, but former President Donald Trump was the big loser on Election Day 2022. A plethora of pre-Election Day polls showed Republicans with a healthy lead, and pollsters went so far as to predict a \u2018red tsunami.\u2019 Instead, it was more like a pink trickle. \u201cDefinitely not a Republican wave, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1731725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1731720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731720","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1731725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}