High-profile candidates who got the Trump-hug tended to be losers. But among critical Republican primary voters, the former president’s pull is as strong as ever.
Donald Trump emerged from the 2022 midterm election with egg on his face.
Although most former US presidents try to stay above intra-party squabbles, the former president had unprecedented involvement in the midterm primaries, which ultimately led to the ascendance of “outsider” Trump-like candidates in several key congressional swing states and losses in toss-up gubernatorial elections.
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Victoria Cooper is a research associate at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.
