Trump and MAGA Need To Stick Around.

If Trump makes an announcement tonight that he’s a candidate for President in 2024, the one immediate result will be to kill any chance his asshole buddy Herschel Walker has to get elected to the Senate in his runoff against Raphael Warnock next month. I say this because just about every time Trump gets heavily involved in a contested Senate or House race, never mind when he runs for President himself, his involvement tends to bring out more voters for the other side.

This morning I was listening to one of the AM shock jocks trying to find some silver lining in last Tuesday’s results, and he began gloating about the fact that in all the Congressional races put together, the GOP got more total votes. It turns out that of the 36 House races in which only one major party put a candidate on the ballot, 24 of those races were in districts where a GOP candidate ran unopposed.

No wonder the total national Congressional vote was higher for the GOP. And many of these GOP winners were endorsed by Donald Trump. And this makes his 80% winning endorsement rate such a big deal?

The first newspaper job that A. J. Liebling got in the 1930’s was as a copywriter in the Sports Department of The New York Times. His job was to make sure that the box score for all the high school basketball games included everyone’s name, both the players and the…