Some allies were calling on Trump to delay his planned announcement, saying the full focus needs to be a runoff election in Georgia that could again determine control of the Senate.
Indeed, some allies were calling on Trump to delay his planned announcement next week, saying the party's full focus needs to be on Georgia, where Trump-backed football great Herschel Walker's effort to unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock is"I’ll be advising him that he move his announcement until after the Georgia runoff," said former Trump adviser Jason Miller, who spent the night with the former president at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.
But Trump lost some of the night's biggest prizes, particularly in Pennsylvania, where Dr. Mehmet Oz, who only narrowly won his Senate primary with Trump's backing,. Trump-backed candidates also lost governors' races in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Maryland, and a Senate race in New Hampshire, though Trump seemed to celebrate the latter, bashing Republican Dan Bolduc for trying to moderate his stances by backing off his embrace of Trump's election lies.
Reed argued the party "had everything going for us: money, the issue agenda, Biden being in the tank," but said Trump's efforts to keep himself in the spotlight by teasing a run in the race's final stretch "obviously worked up a lot of independents and Democrats to turn out and vote.
‘The only animating factor in determining an endorsement is, ’Do you believe the 2020 election was stolen or don't you?'" Christie said. "It's not, ‘Can you raise money?’ It's not, ‘Do you have an articulatable vision for the future of your state or your district?' It's not evidence of past success in communicating to voters. It is a completely self-centered determination.
Some now worry that if Trump goes forward with his planned announcement next week, he could pave the way for a rerun of Republicans' 2021 losses in Georgia by dominating the race.
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