The tide is turning against Trump

 

Headline:  New York Times, 5/28/2022

Some Republican strategists have fixated on the fact that so many of Mr. Trump’s endorsees have landed about one-third of the vote — big winners (J.D. Vance in Ohio), losers (Jody Hice in Georgia, Janice McGeachin in Idaho and Charles Herbster in Nebraska) and those headed for a recount (Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania). 

One-third of the party is at once an unmatched base of unbending loyalists — and yet a cohort far from a majority. 

Notably, Mr. Trump’s share of what is raised overall among all Republicans online has also declined. Mr. Trump’s main fund-raising committee accounted for 19.7 percent of what was raised by Republican campaigns and committees on WinRed in the last four months of 2021, but just 14.1 percent of what was raised during the first three months of 2022. Some of that decrease is the result of other candidates on the ballot raising more this year.  [emphasis added]

 

5/27/2022 update starts here

Headline:  Wisconsin State Journal, 5/26/2022

Dean Knudson told the commission in a farewell speech that Republican leaders have branded him a “RINO,” or Republican in name only, a derogatory term Republicans attach to members of the party they don’t feel are loyal enough. 

Knudson said he believes the GOP has “falsely peddled” conspiracy theories that Biden somehow stole Wisconsin from Trump, even though multiple recounts and court rulings have found no widespread fraud and that Biden beat Trump by about 21,000 votes in the state. 

“The painful truth is President Trump lost the election in 2020 ... and it was not due to election fraud,” Knudson said. “It’s been made clear to me from the highest levels of the Republican Party of Wisconsin there was a deep desire that I not be chair and that’s fine.”

Original 5/26/2022 post starts here.

Headline:  Reuters, 5/25/2022

Election results:  New York Times

Reuters excerpt:

Raffensperger's outright victory over the Trump-endorsed U.S. Representative Jody Hice had not been widely expected. With polling suggesting a tight race, some experts had forecast neither securing a majority, triggering a run-off. Instead, Edison Research projected that Raffensperger had won by 52% to 34%, after 96% of the expected votes were counted.