By
Ed Kilgore,
political columnist for Intelligencer since 2015
MAGA congressman Russell Fry is running for the Senate despite Trump’s endorsement of Darline Graham.
One of the crosses Donald Trump has had to bear recently is a less-than-perfect record in endorsing Republican primary candidates. His choices in high-profile gubernatorial nominating contests in Iowa and Georgia both lost to rivals who claimed to adore the 47th president despite their manifest willingness to rebel against his wishes. Trump’s fury at his advisers for steering him wrong peaked in South Carolina, where his gubernatorial endorsee, Pamela Evette, was struggling in a GOP runoff against yet another more-MAGA-than-thou rival, Alan Wilson, leading Trump in a panic to endorse Wilson as well, guaranteeing Evette’s demise (she was absolutely obliterated in the runoff after losing the president’s exclusive backing).
