Trump Is Mapping Out a More MAGA Senate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : In 2022, Trump endorsed MAGA diehards in midterm races throughout the country, ensuring their primary victories.
53% : "The primary came and went and the conclusion of it is: the Republican Party is the Party of Trump.
51% : As Trump raised money and rose in the polls with each indictment, fewer Republicans wanted to get crosswise with the party standard-bearer.
48% : Trump had other ideas.
45% : Trump launched his presidential campaign early, fending off would-be rivals; waged war on his most formidable challenger, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, making him a pariah among the MAGA base; and turned his avalanche of legal woes into a political advantage.
40% : But the efforts of prominent conservatives to move on from Trump were fruitless.
35% : Trump Is Mapping Out a More MAGA SenateEric CortellessaMarch 20, 2024 at 11:39 AMFormer President Donald Trump arrives at a rally for Bernie Moreno's Senate bid in Vandalia, Ohio, on March 16, 2024.
35% : Part of their pitch is to keep the flame of Trump's "America First" doctrine burning on Capitol Hill, regardless of whether Trump himself returns to the White House.
30% : They are part of a larger effort to purge the party of Republicans who represent a bygone era and replace them with a brigade of Trump loyalists.
24% : "Trump has vowed in a second term to round up and deport millions of undocumented immigrants; initiate a trade war by imposing tariffs on foreign goods; send the National Guard into cities struggling with violent crime; and implement an isolationist foreign policy.
22% : While early polling has Trump leading President Joe Biden in the seven swing states most likely to tip the election, Rosenberg sees signs that Trump's GOP takeover is alienating swaths of Republicans and independents: the 2022 midterms; ballot initiatives in the conservative states of Ohio and Kansas in which voters rejected attempts to criminalize abortion; Democrats flipping the New York House seat vacated by fabulist George Santos; and well-known Republicans refusing to endorse Trump.
16% : Trump's former Vice President recently announced on Fox News that he would not support his old boss this time around, saying Trump was "articulating an agenda that is at odds with the conservative agenda we governed on during our four years.
12% : As soon as Donald Trump's allies coalesced around Banks, Daniels announced he wouldn't run, and Trump endorsed the hard-right congressman, scaring away potential contenders.

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