Posted on 08/04/2022 8:11:33 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Former President Donald Trump shocked the political world on Monday when he issued a generic nonspecific endorsement of “Eric” in Missouri’s U.S. senate primary, leaving it open-ended whether he meant Attorney General Eric Schmitt or former Gov. Eric Greitens.
While both sides fought vigorously for the endorsement and campaigned in the state just as aggressively, Trump’s decision to remain ambiguous at the 11th hour provided some much-needed levity and humor to an otherwise nasty primary campaign.
“There is a BIG Election in the Great State of Missouri, and we must send a MAGA Champion and True Warrior to the U.S. Senate, someone who will fight for Border Security, Election Integrity, our Military and Great Veterans, together with having a powerful toughness on Crime and the Border,” Trump said. “We need a person who will not back down to the Radical Left Lunatics who are destroying our Country. I trust the Great People of Missouri, on this one, to make up their own minds, much as they did when they gave me landslide victories in the 2016 and 2020 Elections, and I am therefore proud to announce that ERIC has my Complete and Total Endorsement!”
Put more plainly: Trump is funny. Humor helps people deal with tough situations. Trump played it perfectly by grabbing everyone’s attention, and then taking down the anger and emotion with a simple joke the night before the election.
Both Schmitt and Greitens were hoping they would get the endorsement outright after Trump had previously ruled out Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) in the primary weeks ago, and both teams worked Trump hard for it. Trump’s America First movement also split in the race, with several of Trump’s hardcore supporters backing one candidate over the other—and Trump’s decision to stay out of the race until the very end made
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Awesome Trump!
So who won?
This was near genius for Trump to do. I have not been completely happy with Trump endorsements, particularly Dr. Azz here in Pennsylvania. However, it’s the peoples’ responsibility to find, promote and support candidates prior to anyone’s endorsement. Our responsibility doesn’t end there. We need to elect those coming out of primaries and most importantly hold them to America first policies once in office. It’s an endless battle.
The GOP will either be MAGA or it will be globo-corporatist. It can’t be both. One side will have to beat the other.
Genius.
I wish Barnette and Oz had the same first name - a lot of us in PA would have preferred a similar endorsement strategy here.
Don’t look for the establishment country clubbers to be too supportive. After Trump one can clearly see they are a disloyal lot of little McCain backstabbers. It’s their private club and we peasants are not welcome except to vote for their liberal turd of the month and send $, that’s it.
Was he the Erik we wanted?
Or the establishment guy?
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