Oh, Donald. This is not a good sign. No, Sir, it is not. Your endorsement is supposed to be worth its weight in gold. Screw gold, go for platinum. Screw that, go for unobtanium. Your endorsement is supposed to work just like your powers of declassification of documents. If you just think a document is declassified, voila, it is. And if you just think a candidate gets the nomination, poof — they’re on the ballot. So what the flaming fig happened in New Jersey tonight? Um…in a nutshell, the New Jersey Republican party told Christine Serrano Glassner, the Trump-endorsed MAGA candidate to go pound sand. And they nominated somebody else. Donald will be furious when he hears. New Jersey Insider:
New Jersey primary voters tonight repudiated Donald Trump by selecting Curtis Bashaw over Christine Serrano Glassner in the GOP Primary for the United States Senate.
At a rally last month in Wildwood, Trump delighted in publicly endorsing Serrano Glassner over Bashaw, as he complained about former Governor Chris Christie’s support for Bashaw.
“I was going to stay out of it but you’re running against a Christie person,” Trump said onstage at a rally in Wildwood last month.
Voters here in the Garden State overrode Trump’s endorsement. […]
Twice an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency, Christie tonight can at least thump his chest over Bashaw’s win over Serrano Glassner.
You know the old saying, he who laughs last, laughs best. This is a significant sign here. Chris Christie spoke of moving beyond Donald Trump. When Bashaw won tonight, he spoke of “building a bigger, better Republican Party together.” In any kind of a normal election year a candidate for the U.S. Senate would be touting his or her party’s presidential candidate and attaching themselves to that momentum. Not here. Bashaw talks about, “The New Jersey Revolution starts tonight,” but he doesn’t say one word about Trump or Make America Great Again. And you wouldn’t expect him to, since he just defeated that candidate. He’s talking about defeating his opponents for the Senate seat, Andy Kim, Democrat and Bob Mendendez running as an Independent. That should be interesting.
There’s a crucial point to be made here: This was a Republican primary. Normally, the primary candidates would be 100% behind the Republican nominee. That’s not at all the case this year. There is no Republican nominee. There is the MAGA candidate running for reelection and people like this, with R’s behind their name, running independent of the MAGA candidate.
Very interesting dynamic. I don’t think you’ve seen the last of it. There are other primaries to come.
Agreed @RonFilipkowski but I'm pretty sure the word "loser" will be in there somewhere
— Greg Low (@greglow) June 5, 2024
Trump will either make noises to that effect or he will ignore this defeat altogether. But he can’t ignore the pattern. He’s the presumptive nominee but his party is not behind him. That is becoming more and more clear as these primaries tick by, one by one. MAGA’s day is done. Watching it’s star set will be joyful. And it’s long overdue.
It’s commenced. The MAGAs being hung out to dry – more ways than one!
So much winning! I’m not tired of it yet diaper Don.
S l o w l y it turns, slowly but surely, Shirley.
Kinda like sledding down a hill: start slow, pickin’ up speed, really rockin’ at the bottom.
Go, Melon Felon, go. Yeah, just Go already, idiot.
OOOoo, a new nickname foe Von Schitzenpantz: Melon Felon! I LOVE it!👍
I hope this is the start of a New Republican Party–non Maga. I think it will be a very interesting Senate Race in New Jersey.
Funny how so many of his endorsed candidates keep losing primary and general.elections.