Towards the U.S. legislative election: Is Donald Trump adding votes or driving them out?

Donald Trump’s political career will enter a new stage on Tuesday, as voters begin voting in primaries before the midterm elections and it will be possible to see what the former president continues to drag on his populist stylehis escalation of cultural wars and his insistence on denying his defeat in the 2020 elections.

The first trial will be taken in Ohio, where his candidate for a vacant Senate seat, JD Vance, faces several rivals who have for months sought Trump’s support. In the coming weeks, elections in Nebraska, Pennsylvania and North Carolina will serve as a referendum on Trump and tell how far the tycoon can shape the Republican Party to his liking.

In almost all battles, Trump only supported the numbers that promoted his false statements of electoral fraud and reduces the violent takeover in Congress last year that he recruited.

“The month of May will be an important month in defining who we are,” said Maryland Republican Governor Larry Hogan, who questioned Trump and supported the sitting governors of Georgia, Ohio and Idaho. Everyone is looking for re -election against Trump -backed rivals. “It worries me that there are people trying to destroy the game or burn it,” Hogan added.

Few states are more important to Trump than Georgiawhere voting will begin on Monday, although the primary is scheduled for May 24. He has played a particularly active role in the governor’s career, enlisting a former senator to try to oust a Republican who doesn’t buy his lies about the election.

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For the same reason, Trump wants to defeat the acting secretary of state, whom he has not successfully lobbied for not acknowledging Joe Biden’s success.

Although the primaries will take several months, the first round of consultations could set the course for future contests. If the electorate supports Trump’s candidates, the former president will establish himself as the strongman of the Republican Party and may feel compelled to run again for president.

Conversely, high -profile defeats may reduce their rise and encourage alternative vision advocates among Republicans.

“There are people in Washington who want (Trump) to leave. But that will not happen”, Senator Ted Cruz predicted in an interview.

Republicans are shooting at each other with heavy bullets in an effort to gain Trump’s support.

Si Sen. Rick Scott, who is leading Republican efforts to regain control of the Senate, said May will be a brutal period of strife rather than political solutions and draw differences with Democrats.

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“In primary there’s often a lot of smears and that’s what happens,” Scott said.

No race is more complex than the Georgia Republican primary. Trump spent months criticizing Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, which he accuses of not helping him reverse his narrow defeat in the 2020 elections.

That pullback was confirmed by a three-count vote, by national and state officials and by Trump’s own attorney general. The fraud claims were denied court after court.

Georgia Lt. said. Gov. Geoff Duncan, a Trump critic who does not seek re -election, the former president’s decision to support former Sen. David Perdue against Kemp is an “embarrassing” waste of money which could hurt Republicans in the November elections.

For now, Trump remains undisputed the leader of the Republican Party and no one wants to experience their anger.

Six months before the election, which, according to historical trends, predicted the great victories of the Republic, the candidates of that party spent enormous amounts on attacking each other, while the Democrats allocated themselves for the November referendum.

In Ohio, half a dozen Republican Senate candidates and their outside supporters have invested more than 66 million dollars combined, according to Democratic leaders studying advertising spending. Most of that money went to attack each other.

Mike Gibbons, a construction entrepreneur in Cleveland, spent $ 15 million on television ads alone, including one featuring Vance describing Trump as “an idiot.”

Republicans spend more than Democrats, but not to weaken their platforms, but to fight each other.

Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, who leads Democrats ’efforts to retain control of the Senate, said Republicans are essentially campaigning for him. He described the intensity of Republican infighting as “toxic” for the candidates of that party.

“They’re fighting over who’s the most Trumpian among the Trumpists,” Peters said. “They don’t talk about things that matter to people.”

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