Former Trump Official Calls Him ‘Loser’ After Red Flop

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There was a time not long ago when Donald Trump held the Republican Party captive. An endorsement from Trump spelled certain election victories for the right and a mere critical tweet from Trump spelled certain doom. Of all the election results already announced in the 2022 midterm elections, and what is clearly indicated even by those whose votes are still being tallied, one thing is clear: the biggest loser of the night was Donald Trump.

Former officials who served under the twice-impeached ex-president who lost the popular vote twice and tried to stage a coup weren’t shy about saying so, either. Trump-backed candidates across the country, with the sole exception of Ohio’s J.D. Vance who pulled out a squeaker in his race, lost over and over again.

On the other hand, incumbents who whole-heartedly backed Trump, candidates like Colorado’s Lauren Boebert, have lost or are losing their races. New candidates like Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, Dan Bolduc in New Hampshire, Lee Zeldin in New York, and Michigan’s Tudor Dixon all had Trump’s strongest endorsements and lost their races. Boebert, along with Arizona’s Kari Lake, appear poised to lose theirs.

The Daily Beast reports Alyssa Farrah Griffin, the former White House communications director for Trump, as saying in response to the results that:

‘If you want the Republican Party to thrive, we’ve got to just finally speak out and say, ‘This man is a loser.’ He lost 2020, he’s about to–you know, he’s losing a seat that is winnable this time, in time towards looking what the future might look like.’

Former deputy White House press secretary under Trump, Sarah Matthews, who testified against Trump before the House Select January 6 Committee, said that the results should be considered a warning against another Trump presidential run.

‘I think last night was the biggest indicator that Donald Trump should not be the Republican nominee in 2024. He cost Republicans winnable seats by boosting poor quality candidates.’

Pundits and former officials on the opposite side of the aisle agree with those assessments. As the final results continue to shape up and Trump’s planned “big announcement” for November 15 – the announcement is expected to be a hurried bid for the White House in 2024 that would muddy the waters of multiple investigations against him – is now tainted by the multiple losses, most agree that Trump’s chances in another election after the 2022 midterms are grim.

As reported by The Week, Democratic strategist David Plouffe had a strong opinion about what or who is to blame for the Republican losses on Tuesday.

‘Donald Trump. He’s deeply unpopular [and] he supported a bunch of horrible Senate candidates who may end up coughing up the football here.’