The Hill: Trump Attack Leaves GOP Wondering if He Cares about Senate Majority
From this:
Former President Trump’s Monday assault against Joe O’Dea, the GOP’s Senate nominee in Colorado, is angering Republicans while leaving them wondering if he cares about the party winning back the majority in the upper chamber.
O’Dea, a pro-abortion rights moderate whom Democrats spent $4 million against in the primary, was already in an uphill fight against Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.).
Now Republicans worry any chance he has of pulling off an upset are being extinguished by Trump, prompting frustration and exasperation with the ex-president.
“It certainly is not [helpful],” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), a Trump ally, told The Hill. “I would hate to see O’Dea lose to Sen. Bennet by a few votes just because Donald Trump urged Republicans not to vote and we came up short of the majority by one senator.”
The so-called “attack” is a reference to Trump’s lashing out the Colorado Senate hopeful after O’Dea said he would campaign against Trump should the former president make another White House run.
It looks like Trump found himself in a dilemma. Obviously, if Trump cares about the GOP or anything else, it’s because he believes that it is good for him personally. But here he has a wanna-be Republican senator who is openly hostile to him.
Trump is asking himself: What’s more likely to put me behind bars, a Democratically controlled Senate, or a GOP-dominated Senate that is distancing itself from me?
Good question.