Pathetic Trump Can't Even Get Candidates He Endorsed To Endorse His Presidential Run

Donald Trump endorsed more than 160 Republicans who won office last year, and only a small fraction of them have returned the favor and endorsed his presidential run. This is NOT a positive sign for Trump, and it shows that even though they wanted his support a few months ago, they aren't willing to tie themselves to him anymore. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what this means for Trump as the campaign limps along.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Donald Trump is, of course, as we all know, running for president, but by God, he's having a tough go of it because he's not getting the endorsements that he thought he would be getting. Specifically those ungrateful little bastards that he endorsed in the 2022 midterms, where the hell are they? Because they're not coming out in droves to endorse him. As Trump says, he endorsed more than 200 candidates for office in 2022, and 164 of them won. And a lot of that was because they were people, they were incumbents in deep red districts, or they were running unopposed. So yeah, they're gonna win. But out of the 164 people that Trump endorsed who won in 2022, only 30, only 30 have come out and endorsed him for 2024. So those 164 people were more than happy to take Trump's endorsement. Not a single one of them said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I, I renounce your endorsement. I do not want it. Nobody said that. They all accepted it. Most of them put it on their Twitter feeds, on their campaign websites. They bragged about it. And now the big guy needs your help in return. Why aren't you coming out and endorsing him? And only about 30, according to the Washington Post. So it's actually a little under 30. Um, only about 30 have come out and said, all right, yeah, sure, I'll, I'll endorse you for 2024. Why not?

That's, that's not a good return on investment there, Donald. You know, you're the art of the deal guy. And you put these people where they are according to you, and now they're not returning the favorite. Why are you not out there making these phone calls? Why are you not out there threatening these people? Why aren't you on truth social talking about this report from this week, talking about all these ungrateful little hypocrites out there who wanted your endorsement desperately, but now pretend they want nothing to do with you. Why aren't you calling them out? Because you should? Because I think everybody needs to remember that these people wanted Donald Trump when they needed help, but now that they realize how toxic he is and how he doesn't really benefit their campaigns at all, they've turned their backs on him. And honestly, that may be why Trump doesn't want to talk about it, because he knows the realization that he has come to with this. They're not out there endorsing him in droves because they're not afraid of him. And as I've been saying, for over a year, once the fear disappears, Trump's power disappears with it because he doesn't have any real power within the Republican party. He hasn't, since he left office, it's

Arguable that he didn't even have it while he was in office. Cuz most of the candidates he endorsed while in office went on to lose their elections. So not a good track record, but the only power he's had since leaving office is the power that the Republicans have pretended he has. And they've pretended that he has it because they fear him. They don't want to be the target of one of his tirades and tantrums. They don't want him to go out there and make fun of him or come up with a goofy little nickname for them. So they've played nice, but now they're understanding we don't have to, we don't have to do anything. This guy says, we don't have to play nice. We don't have to be the people that cower down every time he walks by. He's got nothing and we owe him nothing. That's what more and more of these candidates, even the ones that wanted his endorsement, that's what they're starting to realize. And that is not going to help Trump at all as he limps along in his little presidential race.