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<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tells-gop-back-my-big-lie-or-ill-burn-the-party-down">Donald Trump has left his mark on the American body politic</a> in myriad ways. But one of the lesser-discussed aspects of the way the 45th president forever changed this country is how he’s endowed unqualified idiots with the grandiose confidence to believe they, too, should run for high political office.</p>
<p>Look no further than the November midterms. Last week, Senate Minority Leader <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-played-the-long-game-and-just-transformed-america">Mitch McConnell</a> acknowledged that it was more likely the House would flip to <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-now-have-an-incentive-to-be-terrible">Republicans</a> than the Senate, blaming “<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/mcconnell-says-republicans-may-not-win-senate-control-citing-candidate-rcna43777">candidate quality</a>.”</p>
<p>The critique was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/21/opinions/trump-mcconnell-senate-election-2022-obeidallah/index.html">interpreted as a veiled shot at Trump</a> (who boosted some of the weakest Senate candidates, such as Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania and former NFL star Herschel Walker in Georgia). The truth, though, is that most people don’t realize that Trump has done even <em>more</em> damage to Republicans’ chances of taking back the Senate.</p>
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Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast
Donald Trump has left his mark on the American body politic in myriad ways. But one of the lesser-discussed aspects of the way the 45th president forever changed this country is how he’s endowed unqualified idiots with the grandiose confidence to believe they, too, should run for high political office.
Look no further than the November midterms. Last week, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged that it was more likely the House would flip to Republicans than the Senate, blaming “candidate quality.”
The critique was interpreted as a veiled shot at Trump (who boosted some of the weakest Senate candidates, such as Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania and former NFL star Herschel Walker in Georgia). The truth, though, is that most people don’t realize that Trump has done even more damage to Republicans’ chances of taking back the Senate.
