Two-thirds of Republican candidates in competitive US House and Senate races have broken with Donald Trump on policy or played down ties to him, a Reuters review found, revealing a widespread effort to distance themselves from the president as his unpopularity threatens the party’s hold on Congress.
The review of voting records, public statements and campaign materials found candidates in 41 of 62 competitive congressional races seeking some distance from Trump ahead of the November 3 midterm elections.
The candidates have largely criticized or diverged from Trump on individual issues rather than repudiated his broader agenda. The findings suggest an effort to attract independent voters while avoiding a direct break with their party leader.
This is the new version of ‘shifting to the middle’ for general election. Gotta love Trump in the primaries, because that’s still 2/3 of the GOP; gotta be a maverick in the general, because Trump-haters are 2/3 of the population.
Oh, he’s going to be bigly mad. Doesn’t matter if they win or lose. If they win, he’ll still be all resentful and butthurt. If they lose, he’ll say it was because they were not sufficiently loyal to him.
The MAGA family I have, have stopped mentioning Trump at all on Facebook. They still post trash but as far as Trump goes, it’s silent.
Friend of mine has trump family. They’d watch Alex jones every week.
Now in conversation they do this weird like tail between their legs thing where they kinda talk bad about him, but never too much and act like he betrayed them.
I’ve really only responded with a like “well, the rest of us knew. Why didn’t you ever listen when people warned you?” At best they just give a disgruntled yeah and whatever. They’ll vote for him again in 2028 and not think anything of it. They’re idiots and their brains are rotten
As if trump and the republicans aren’t the same thing. You vote for a party, never for a person.
Lol, no. Never forget, never forgive.
They can pretend at distancing all they want – just as they pretend at having consciences and an interest in the welfare of this country – but it’s like them saying they’re separating the piss out of the swimming pool, or the syphilis out of the chancre, or the rot out of the corpse.
Not possible. They are what they are, corrupt and bound to Trump through and through. And some of us will never forget what they have done to us.
