{"id":2320570,"date":"2024-08-07T13:57:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T17:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-endorsement-record-notches-more-primary-wins-with-a-catch-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-08-07T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T18:00:08","slug":"trump-endorsement-record-notches-more-primary-wins-with-a-catch-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-endorsement-record-notches-more-primary-wins-with-a-catch-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump endorsement record notches more primary wins, with a catch &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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%2Ftrump-endorsement-record-notches-more-primary-wins-with-a-catch-washington-examiner%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=2320570&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>Former President Donald \u2064Trump claimed a \u2064successful night\u2062 in the recent \u200cprimary elections held in Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, and Washington state, \u2063boasting that he went 24 for 24 in his endorsements of candidates. In a post on Truth Social, he congratulated the winners, many of whom were considered long shots. However, his\u200c assertion of a clean sweep is complicated by the fact that he often endorsed multiple candidates in the same races, allowing him to hedge his bets. This strategy diminishes \u2064his influence over voters as he aligns with several strong contenders. <\/p>\n<p>For instance, in Missouri, Trump endorsed three leading candidates for the gubernatorial race, with\u2062 Lt. Gov.\u2064 Mike Kehoe winning ultimately; and in the state&#8217;s\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-p-bush-talks-to-trump-about-political-options-for-texas\/\" title=\"George P. Bush Talks to Trump About Political Options for Texas\">attorney general race<\/a>, he supported both Andrew \u200bBailey and Will Scharf, with \u2062Bailey emerging victorious. Trump&#8217;s multi-candidate endorsements were similarly seen in Arizona and Washington, showcasing a tactic he\u2064 has increasingly employed this election cycle. While this approach has yielded wins, it raises questions about his impact as \u200da political influencer.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump endorsement record notches more primary wins, with a catch<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1724855\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3113466\/trump-warms-to-debate-original-format\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> took a victory lap Wednesday following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-election-is-choice-between-strength-and-weakness-after-debate-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Trump says election is \u2018choice between strength and weakness\u2019 after debate - Washington Examiner\">previous night&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3113391\/wake-up-washington-examiner-biden-trump-proof-science-legacy-three-things-primaries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"primary elections\">primaries <\/a>in Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, and Washington state.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A BIG NIGHT IN AMERICA. I was 24 for 24 in Endorsements, with numerous candidates that won being long shots,&rdquo; he <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/112919174796248395\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>posted<\/a> on Truth Social. &ldquo;Very happy! Congratulations to All, do a great job for America!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But Trump&rsquo;s claim he had a clean sweep comes with a major asterisk: In some races, he endorsed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3111404\/trump-endorsed-candidate-attacks-other-trump-endorsed-candidate-same-race-as-afterthought\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"multiple candidates\">multiple candidates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy allowed the GOP presidential nominee to hedge his bets and limit the chances of adding losses to the board. But it could diminish his own influence among voters by simply betting on all the most popular contenders.<\/p>\n<p>While it&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/08\/02\/lobbying-trumps-missouri-endorsement-00049183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"not a new tactic\">not a new tactic<\/a> for Trump, he&rsquo;s increasingly leaned into it this cycle. He endorsed Eric Greitens and Eric Schmitt for a Missouri Senate seat in the 2022 midterm elections. Schmitt went on to win the primary and the general, and he remains a loyal ally on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>In a House primary race last week, Trump endorsed Blake Masters after having already backed Abe Hamadeh for Arizona&rsquo;s 8th Congressional District. His first choice, Hamadeh, won with about 30% to Masters&rsquo;s nearly 26%.<\/p>\n<p>For Missouri&rsquo;s gubernatorial race Tuesday, Trump endorsed all three leading candidates: Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe, Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, and state Sen. Bill Eigel.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Choose any one of them,&rdquo; Trump posted on Truth Social last month. &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t go wrong!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Kehoe won with a little more than 39%, compared to Eigel&rsquo;s nearly 33% and Ashcroft&rsquo;s roughly 23%.<\/p>\n<p>For the state&rsquo;s attorney general, Trump endorsed Andrew Bailey and Will Scharf. Bailey, the incumbent, won with 63% to Scharf&rsquo;s 37%.<\/p>\n<p>He again pulled a similar maneuver for Washington&rsquo;s 4th Congressional District in a bid to oust Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), one of just two House Republicans left who voted to impeach him. Trump first endorsed former NASCAR driver Jerrod Sessler, followed by a last-minute seal of approval for Tiffany Smiley, who lost a 2022 Senate race.<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday, the race remained too close to call. With less than 55% of the vote counted, Sessler led with almost 30%, Newhouse was at 25%, and Smiley was at 19.5%. Due to the state&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rnc-withdraws-resolution-to-declare-trump-nominee-following-backlash\/\" title=\"RNC backs down on resolution to declare Trump nominee after criticism\">open primary process<\/a>, the top two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-poll-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/another-fun-fraud-fact-all-900-military-ballots-in-fulton-county-georgia-went-to-sleepy-joe-biden-not-a-chance-in-hell\/\" title=\"ANOTHER FUN FRAUD FACT: All 900 Military Ballots in Fulton County, Georgia Went to Sleepy Joe Biden -- NOT A CHANCE IN HELL!\">trump-backed<\/a>-kelly-tshibaka-leads-alaska-senate-race-lisa-murkowski-losing-in-reelection-bid\/&#8221; title=&#8221;Exclusive \u2014 Poll: Trump-Backed Kelly Tshibaka Leads Alaska Senate Race, Lisa Murkowski Losing in Reelection Bid&#8221;>vote-getters advance<\/a> to the general election regardless of party. Sessler and Newhouse were on track to advance. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Trump successfully picked all the victors in the rest of the races where he only chose one candidate, the highest profile of which was the GOP primary for Michigan&rsquo;s battleground Senate seat. <\/p>\n<p>Although the outcome was expected, Trump-backed former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) won with more than 63% of the vote and will face Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) in the general election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump has endorsed hundreds of Republican candidates up and down the ballot this cycle and so far has a primary success rate of 81%, according to a running tally from <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Endorsements_by_Donald_Trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Ballotpedia\">Ballotpedia<\/a>. But he&rsquo;s faced a few stinging losses along the way. <\/p>\n<p>Among those were races earlier this summer. In the Utah Senate race to succeed Trump-antagonist and retiring Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), Trump-backed Riverton Mayor Trent Staggs lost out to Rep. John Curtis (R-Utah). That same evening, Trump-favored candidates for House seats in South Carolina and Colorado also lost to other GOP opponents.<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1724855\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1724855\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s Endorsement Record Achieves More Primary Wins, but with a Caveat<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump celebrated on Wednesday after the primaries held the night before in Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, and Washington state. He declared on Truth Social, \u201cA BIG NIGHT IN AMERICA. I was 24 for 24 in endorsements, with many of the winning candidates being underdogs. Very happy! Congratulations to all; do a great job for America!\u201d However, his assertion of a perfect record comes with an important caveat: he endorsed multiple candidates in some races. This approach allowed him to mitigate potential losses by supporting several popular contenders at once. While this tactic is not new for Trump, he has increasingly relied on it during this election cycle.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, in Missouri&#8217;s Senate race during the 2022 midterms, he backed both Eric Greitens and Eric Schmitt; Schmitt ultimately won both the primary and general elections and remains a loyal supporter in Congress. In last week&#8217;s House primary race in Arizona\u2019s 8th Congressional District, Trump endorsed Blake Masters after previously supporting Abe Hamadeh; Hamadeh emerged victorious with around 30% of the vote compared to Masters&#8217; nearly 26%. <\/p>\n<p>In Missouri\u2019s gubernatorial contest on Tuesday, Trump endorsed all three leading candidates: Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe, Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, and state Sen. Bill Eigel\u2014stating on Truth Social last month that voters \u201ccan\u2019t go wrong\u201d choosing any of them. Kehoe won with just over 39%, while Eigel received nearly 33% and Ashcroft about 23%. For attorney general in Missouri, Trump supported both Andrew Bailey and Will Scharf; Bailey won decisively with 63% against Scharf\u2019s 37%.<\/p>\n<p>In Washington&#8217;s congressional race aimed at unseating Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), one of only two Republicans who voted to impeach him, Trump first backed former NASCAR driver Jerrod Sessler before giving late support to Tiffany Smiley\u2014who lost a Senate bid last year\u2014but as of Wednesday morning that race remained too close to call.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these strategies allowing him some success\u2014he accurately predicted winners where he only chose one candidate\u2014the most notable victory was Mike Rogers\u2019 win in Michigan\u2019s GOP primary for its competitive Senate seat where he garnered over 63% of votes against Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) for the general election.<\/p>\n<p>Overall this cycle has seen Trump endorse hundreds of Republican candidates across various positions achieving an impressive primary success rate of approximately 81%, according to Ballotpedia&#8217;s ongoing tally; however there have been notable defeats as well\u2014including losses earlier this summer when his favored candidate Trent Staggs lost out in Utah\u2019s Senate race against Rep John Curtis (R-UT), along with other setbacks for his chosen House candidates from South Carolina and Colorado<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3108,"featured_media":2320571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/trump-endorsement-record-2.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[13348,37447,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2320570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-endorsement","tag-primary-wins","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/trump-endorsement-record-2.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320570","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\/3108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2320570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2320571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2320570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2320570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2320570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}