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The projected defeat of Republican Kari Lake in the Arizona governor’s race on Monday completes a near total rout of 2020 election deniers in swing states whom former President Donald Trump thrust into the midterm elections.
Yet despite this staggering record of failure, the ex-president will host a big event at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Tuesday evening that is expected to culminate in the launch of a new presidential bid rooted in his false claims of a stolen election.
His determination to run again is already drawing widespread opposition among many Republicans on Capitol Hill, who are reeling from their failure to whip up a red wave to capture the Senate, where Democrats held on, and the House, which remains uncalled.
A new Trump campaign would set up a test between the growing skepticism of his ambitions among the upper echelons of his party and the adoration millions of base voters still feel for the twice-impeached ex-president.
Despite once telling supporters he’d do so much winning they’d get tired of it, Trump’s record on Election Day is pretty thin – save from the transformative shock of his 2016 triumph over Democrat Hillary Clinton.
The GOP’s losses under his watch – when they lost the House in 2018 and the Senate two years later – are driving a debate over his political viability within the party he has long dominated. His foisting of poor quality, extreme, election-denying candidates on the GOP in this year’s midterms is not just dampening his possible...
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