Trump-Backed Candidates Win Big in Midwest Primaries - TODAY

[TexasTowelie]

Overnight results from a number of key primary races in the Midwest are being seen as a major test of President Donald Trump’s hold on the Republican base as his party fights to keep control of Congress. In Indiana, a majority of incumbent Republican state senators who faced Trump-backed challengers lost their races. The incumbents were targeted by the president after they voted against his call to change the state's congressional map, a move that would've created two additional GOP-friendly seats in November's midterm elections. NBC’s Shaquille Brewster reports for TODAY.

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Any belief that Trump does not have influence or that he is a lame duck should be dismissed based upon these results. It will be a fight through November and beyond.

[FadedMullet]

1. Disheartening, but true. Speculation, both about him kicking the bucket and about him losing power, is, I fear......

.......a bit premature,

[Walleye]

2. These primary winners should know that they may have won the battle, but they have lost the war for certain

A Trump endorsement isn’t gonna go very far in the general elections.

[PatSeg]

10. I was thinking the same thing

I hope we are both right. I'm not terribly certain about anything these days though.

[yaesu]

3. More proof that there is no cure for fox GOPTV lobotomies nt

[dem4decades]

4. The scum just love their Trump.

[Phoenix61]

5. IMHO this is a win for Democrats.

Trump backed candidates have lost in general elections.

[PatSeg]

11. That is a good point

Also, we have to realize that a lot of former republicans no longer identify as republicans. Some may not have even bothered to vote at all.

[KS Toronado]

6. Musk pulling strings behind the curtains again?

They got away with it 2 years ago.

[appmanga]

7. While it's true Trump still has a lot of support among Republicans...

...it's gone down considerably. So his influence is still strong in primaries, but his losses of additional Republicans and his cratering with independents has made the incumbents and candidates who support him more vulnerable in the general election. A conventional president with an approval rating in the mid-30s would have candidates running away from him like he was a coked-up Freddy Kruger, but this guy is different because he has ended a lot of political careers of Republicans. I'm interested in seeing what the pivot is going to be for the general. My hunch is it will be a lot of demonizing transgender folks, and the usual painting Democrats as soft on crime.

Democrats can attack the economy and the ultra-rich, but they also need to propose solutions, and those solutions should be bold. Democrats also can't be afraid of educating voters when it comes to how much this person has hurt our democratic system, how he and his family have gotten multiple times richer through self-dealing and corruption. How, now, he and the Republicans want the taxpayers to foot a billion dollar bill for a ballroom no one asked for, and, of course, the Trump-Epstein Files.

[ChicagoTeamster]

8. Only Trumpy Republicans bothered to show up and vote. What was the turnout? If it was low it indicates that

The anti Trump voters will probably vote Democrat or not vote in November. Those seats might turn blue.

[ZDU]

9. Expansion before it....

.... bursts. Fin. 🤣