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Trump’s hand-picked candidates split the board in Georgia, where his election-fraud fixation keeps running into voter fatigue and the limits of personal loyalty.
May 25, 2022 landed as another reminder that Trump’s endorsement machine is not magic, especially in Georgia. The former president backed a slate built around his 2020 grievance politics, but the primary results showed real cracks in that brand: some loyalists advanced, while others tied to his crusade against Georgia officials stumbled or were headed for trouble. The biggest takeaway was not that Trump is finished; it was that his command over the GOP can now be measured, and it is far from total.
The broader warning for Trump is simple: you can only relitigate one lost election so many times before voters start voting on the next one. Georgia keeps showing how much of his political power still depends on the anger he can summon — and how often that anger is starting to hit a ceiling.
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Trump’s handpicked candidates had a mixed night in Georgia, where his endorsement could still move some Republican voters but could not rescue every favorite or punish every enemy. The results underscored the gap between Trump’s media dominance and his actual ability to dictate primary outcomes.
Trump tried to use Georgia’s primaries to settle scores against officials who defied his 2020 election lies. The results showed that even many Republican voters were not eager to turn the primary into a personal vendetta machine.