During the 2022 election cycle, then-President Donald Trump‘s interventions in Senate primaries were, frankly, disastrous.

No, Trump wasn’t the only reason for the Republican Party‘s failure, but he played a huge role. His endorsement of Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania certainly decided the extremely close primary — it also put a weaker candidate in place who would eventually lose to a man incapable of serving in the U.S. Senate. Although he wasn’t the only one to back Herschel Walker in Georgia, he played a key role in convincing him to run even though he knew he had skeletons in his closet.

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