He’s no stable genius after all
How Trump kept them in line:
{T]he former president called the GOP chair at midnight on a Sunday evening to complain about Joe Lombardo, the sheriff of Clark County, who was running for governor.
“Someone had sent the former president clips of that evening’s debate in the Nevada governor’s race. The Trump-endorsed Republican nominee, Joe Lombardo, the sheriff of Clark County, had declined to call Mr. Trump a ‘great’ president and had backed off Mr. Trump’s stolen-election lie,” the report states. “Mr. Trump fumed about withdrawing his endorsement, threatening to throw into chaos one of the nation’s most consequential swing states, a place with three competitive House races and a tossup Senate seat. Ms. McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, pleaded with the former president. She asked him for one hour to fix the situation.”
The report adds that Trump’s threat seemed to have worked.
“Mr. Lombardo soon issued a statement calling Mr. Trump a ‘great president,'” the report states before adding. “Thecrisis was averted. The next week, when Mr. Trump held a Nevada rally, Mr. Lombardo joined the chorus singing his praises onstage.”
At that rally, Lombardo went even further exhorting the crowd, “The greatest president, right?”
The kicker:
Lombardo did win the Nevada governor’s race with his election confirmed on Friday night.
His record is …. mixed. The following shows some of his Senate and House endorsements organized by whether or not they were in GOP states and districts. As you can see, he did very well in Republican strongholds. But then my cat could have made those predictions.
His governor picks didn’t do much better. In fact, aside from Lombardo (and possibly Kari Lake) I’m not sure he won any that weren’t already shoo-ins. And he sure didn’t help in any of the close races.