Several Trump-backed candidates lost in the midterm election this week, and the "red wave" that many predicted turned out to be more of just a trickle. Many are asking: Is Trump doing more harm than good to the Republican party?
Politics experts on Greater Boston said it appears the answer is yes.
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"It feels like, that people in the Republican party, the establishment, have had enough of him," Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi said. "Maybe they'll just kidnap him and keep him down at Mar-A-Lago," she joked.
Vennochi said all the attention is now focused on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as the next "shiny new object" in the Republican party. "I think Trump is becoming yesterday's news," she said.
Tatishe Nteta, associate professor of political science at UMass Amherst agreed, noting that Trump won the 2016 election in an unusual way. Republicans lost control of the House in 2018, lost the presidency in 2020 and then performed worse than expected in the 2022 midterms.
Nteta said the Republican party must decide if hitching their wagon to Trump is doing more harm than good.
"I think the argument that the Republican leadership needs to make is whether or not this is actually a winner," Nteta said.
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