Trump Flirts With Bolduc Endorsement But Resists Committing

With less than two weeks left until the New Hampshire Senate primary, former President Donald Trump is playing coy with his endorsement, which could dramatically reshape the race. 


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1430735
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Republicans worry that Bolduc — who planted his flag in support of repealing the 17th Amendment at a recent debate and has called the popular Republican New Hampshire governor a “Chinese communist sympathizer” — will put a potentially flippable seat completely out of reach
really??

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Please, little donnie, give him the kiss of death…

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I wonder if donnie couldn’t communicate with us without actually using words because he does a shit job of it.

“So I’ve been watching it. They want the endorsement,” Trump said on the right-wing John Fredericks radio show Thursday morning. “You know the numbers, I’m almost like at 99 percent on endorsements. So everybody wants the endorsement.”

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Donald J. Trump: The baby at every baptism. The bride at every wedding. The corpse at every funeral. The asshole at every sphincter.

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99%? What about Ms. Palin, an endorsee who cost the Rs the Alaska seat that they basically owned?

I live in northern NH. Folks around here have their whole houses covered with huge Trump 2024 Stop Socialism billboards and the road is lined with Trump flags. Some of the places remind me of little Catholic shrines, except instead of a pederast, their saint–or is he a God–is a racist liar and sexual predator.

Fortunately they are a minority. And nastiness towards our popular non-extreme non-MAGA non-McConnellist R Gov–who’s actually interested in governing!–is a losing proposition with the Independent/swing voters, who are moderate. Bolduc will not be our Senator and will hurt the whole party’s ticket. Even the scum ultra-MAGA Lewendowski knows how badly Bolduc is sure to lose, and has been aggressively telling Trump not to endorse him. I hope Trump endorses Bolduc :slightly_smiling_face:

PS: First time using a smiley here. What a wonderful option Josh and company have provided us! We are the new The Atlantic!

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“So I’ve been watching it. They want the endorsement,” Trump said on the right-wing John Fredericks radio show Thursday morning. “You know the numbers, I’m almost like at 99 percent on endorsements. So everybody wants the endorsement.”

Sh…, I gotta check me clothes.

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I’m almost like at 99 percent on endorsements.

First we had Math. Then we had New Math. Now we have MAGAMath™. I wonder if he’s figured out the odds on him going to jail?

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If only Bolduc’s Republican opponent were also named “Don,” deciding on that endorsement would be a no-brainer.

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win

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Please proceed, FPOTUS.

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Regarding contested Republican primaries (Arizona), he has a good/great record picking winners (I theek it’s 87%).

However, he throws his weight behind shoo-ins (he did so in the early days) and it’s then that supposed % is inflated.

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https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2022/08/02/trump-endorsed-candidates-2022-primary-results-00049238

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/us/politics/trump-endorse-primary-candidates.html

Reminder: for every Michigan n Arizona, there’s this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/24/us/politics/brian-kemp-david-perdue-georgia-governor-trump.html

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Well, “almost like” is doing a lot of work in that sentence(?).

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Republicans worry? If it’s what you say, I love it!

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funny - had same thought

and this is New Hampshire … and …

Donald Bolduc called fellow Republican
Chris Sununu, the current Governor of New Hampshire
a “Chinese Communist sympathizer” … whose family business “supports Arab terrorism,”

Of course there is no love lost on Sunnu’s part -
“He’s not a serious candidate, he’s really not,” Sununu said of the retired general and current frontrunner. “If he were the nominee, I have no doubt we would have a much harder time trying to win that seat back. So I don’t take him seriously as a candidate. I don’t think most people do.”

worth a bit of note - Former Donald Trump campaign manager and current confidant Corey Lewandowski has repeatedly declared Bolduc a non-starter for the GOP.

but it seems like this has gotten away from the moderates in the NH GOP -
and the Full Fascist nut-job Bolduc may prevail in the primary.

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Well “66” is almost like “99.” In the GOP up is down world they’re indistinguishable.

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Endorse the guy who’s way ahead in the Republican party primary. Then claim it was your endorsement when he wins. Then, when he’s behind in the polls to the incumbent Democrat, demur because he’s not sufficiently MAGA, and when the Democrat wins, claim it was because the insufficiently MAGA guy didn’t get your endorsement. That turns one big defeat into two smaller victories.

That’s the way it works in Donnie’s mind. If you can call it a mind.

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“And on the batting average,” Trump continued, “I’m at like .400 or .500, not to mention the Twitter – I’m getting 10…15…20 billion retweets every day, even though I’m banned – and the Wordle scores, you wouldn’t believe what they’re finding in the Wordle scores; no one’s ever seen anything like it!”

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I love how Fat Boy insists that he’s 99% in his endorsements. Kind of like his bullshit net worth is “determined by his emotional state.” So he makes it up. He’s maybe 50/50 in endorsements. And he’s such a chickenshit loser that he often gloms onto people who are already far ahead without him.

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