Trump's Endorsement Is Miraculously More Powerful Than Ever

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Trump giving his blessing is even more influential, and Republicans are once again desperate to get his backing.
66% : Earlier this month, Trump issued his "complete and total endorsement" for lobbyist and first-time candidate, Addison McDowell.
63% : And even members endorsing Trump are finding a political benefit.
60% : In the presidential race, Trump has the endorsement of more than 90 House Republicans before a single vote is cast.
59% : But LaRose wound up with egg on his face just a day later when Trump released a full-throated endorsement of Moreno.
58% : As 2024 nears, Trump is already armed with scores of congressional endorsements.
57% : "Three of these candidates can say they've been endorsed by Donald Trump one way or the other," Jackson said.
55% : Of course, that's just members endorsing Trump.
53% : " Hines endorsed Trump for president and McDowell has embraced the former president on social media.
51% : " But as Trump is known to do, apparently he changed his mind.
50% : Second, Trump snubbed his pick from last cycle, young MAGA up-and-comer Bo Hines, who is also in the race.
48% : "Has any smart and energetic Republican in the Great State of Texas decided to run in the Primary against RINO Congressman, Chip Roy," Trump said earlier this month.
44% : Stefanik's proposal distills just how powerful -- how transactional -- Trump endorsements have become, both with members making them for Trump and Trump making them for members.
44% : But now, Walker is on the outside looking in, clinging to his former associations to Trump.
43% : "You see this with Trump over the years is that he flails around endorses on a whim, oftentimes over somebody he's endorsed and campaigned for just as recently as the last election," North Carolina operative Morgan Jackson told The Daily Beast.
43% : As of earlier this month, Trump had collected at least seven governors, 18 senators and over 80 House members' endorsements.
42% : During the 2022 Ohio Senate race -- which featured a wide-open GOP primary to fill retiring Sen. Rob Portman's seat -- Trump inserted himself into the election by backing the eventual winner: J.D. Vance.
41% : He's also spending $10,000 on ads on Fox News over a 1,000 miles away in West Palm Beach, Florida -- where Trump calls Mar-A-Lago home.
37% : Just days before, Trump seemingly anointed Hines as his chosen one at the New York Young Republican Club Gala.
36% : Meanwhile, top GOP officials are begging Trump not to endorse Majewski again, which could both lock-in a Majewski primary win and, in turn, doom a Republican flip.
36% : Trump is now putting out feelers via Truth Social for a Roy primary challenger (though his calls for a challenger were a little too late, as the filing deadline had just passed).
33% : Earlier this month, right-wing activist Charlie Kirk posted audio of Riedel insisting he was not endorsing Trump nor seeking a Trump endorsement.
31% : "President Trump doesn't need to worry.
28% : Dingell countered the attack on Saturday with a New York Times guest essay on the need to stand up to Trump in a civil way, reinforcing her bruised anti-Trump credentials.
27% : But Trump doesn't need these House candidates as much as they need Trump.
27% : Fellow hard-right Texan Chip Roy -- a former chief of staff for Cruz -- has broken with Trump by voting to certify the 2020 election results and has backed DeSantis in the presidential primary.
23% : He's been indicted four times, married three times, impeached twice, and led one attack on the U.S. Capitol -- and yet Republican members of Congress are tripping over themselves to endorse Trump.
20% : Trump privately offered to endorse Walker for a House run in 2021 in an effort to persuade him to drop his Senate bid against now Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC).
19% : Even more revealing about the importance of backing Trump is that Riedel is now shamelessly trying to clean up his mess.
19% : While Trump has not endorsed in the House primary yet this cycle, if the MAGA social media backlash to Riedel is an indication, any hopes he had of getting Trump's stamp of approval are dead in the water.
18% : Indicted four times, married three times, impeached twice, and led one attack on the U.S. Capitol -- and yet GOP members of Congress are tripping over themselves to endorse Trump.
16% : Hines even posted a now terribly cringe clip of Trump on Instagram, saying Hines would "be a congressman very shortly.
14% : Walker has not endorsed a presidential pick yet this cycle, but in recent months he has declared that Trump was "not at fault" for Jan. 6 and touted his relationship with the former president.
13% : Dingell, who has never been the most or least outspoken Democrat against Trump, apparently pissed off the former president when she criticized his "ROT IN HELL" Christmas message.
12% : The day the audio leaked, Riedel issued a Trump endorsement and has since clapped back at Majewski for calling Trump an "idiot."
9% : Even as he faces four criminal indictments and lags behind Nikki Haley in electability against President Joe Biden, Republican lawmakers seem to have arrived at the conclusion that standing with Trump is politically safer than enduring his wrath.
9% : One menacing post from Trump on his social media platform Truth Social told who senators who had not endorsed him -- Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Trump's former presidential opponent Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) -- to be "very careful" because "stranger things have happened!!!
7% : Even incumbent Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell saw last week how unpleasant Trump speaking out against you can be.
7% : So Trump turned around and trashed Dingell, claiming she was effusive to him after her husband -- John Dingell, the longest serving member of Congress of all time -- died.
3% : Trump attacked Debbie Dingell for being a hypocrite, saying she had privately thanked Trump for lowering the flags at the White House in honor of her husband's death and "two months later" was back to attacking him.

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