ANALYSIS – Several candidates personally pushed by the former president suffered defeats. Donald Trump shows signs of nervousness.
Special Envoy to Atlanta,
Former President Donald Trump had planned to celebrate from his Florida residence a Republican triumph of which he claimed in advance paternity. But he had to revise his ambitions downwards under the threat of a tropical storm… And because the results turned out to be less clear-cut than expected. On the eve of the election, he announced yet another “red wave”, on which he seemed eager to surf towards a new candidacy for the White House. Shortly before the polls closed, he confided about the approximately 300 candidates (out of 589) he personally supported: “I think if they win I should take all the credit and if they lose I shouldn’t be held accountable at all. But it will probably be quite the opposite…”
When the face of the new Congress emerges, Donald Trump will no doubt be delighted to have sent several dozen candidates selected by him. Although officially…