Erick Erickson: Last Night Was Entirely Trump’s Fault

From right wing commentator Erick Erickson:

GOP, you must be done with Trump. This has to be a key takeaway. Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, and Brian Kemp all did very well. They did well as their own men in their own right. The voters thoroughly rejected trump-backed candidates.

Bo Hines, the young man in North Carolina who Trump backed, got beaten in a Republican district drawn for a Republican to win. Kari Lake, whose campaign actually impressed me in Arizona, may not pull through now.

In Pennsylvania, it is undisputed that Trump’s endorsement of Mehmet Oz pushed Oz across the finish line in the primary, and Pennsylvania would rather Fetterman than Oz. Trump really owns that one.

The pattern is too noticeable. Trump-backed candidates were very, very weak and many of them lost. Traditional Republican candidates won. The GOP could have done much better had it picked better candidates. Candidate quality matters, and Trump picked bad candidates.

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