Donald Trump’s opponents, who have been keeping scorecards to monitor the performance of election candidates sponsored by the former president, were undoubtedly happy by David Perdue’s devastating defeat in Georgia’s Republican gubernatorial primary on Tuesday.

Trump has weighed in in the midterm elections like no other president before him, announcing over 190 endorsements and holding rallies with his allies. As he hints at another candidacy for the White House in 2024, the success of his endorsees is considered as a vital measure of his sustained influence over the party.

However, political analysts and Republican strategists warn that any joy among Trump’s foes over Perdue’s defeat to Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is short-sighted, and that any scorecard is a poor predictor of Trumpism in the United States in 2022.

While Trump’s nominees have had mixed results in party primaries so far this year, many Republican voters continue to support Trump’s baseless accusations of voting fraud in the 2020 election, as well as his right-wing, “America First” populist agenda.

In addition, failure to earn Trump’s backing hasn’t stopped other Republican contenders from pandering to his followers.

“In 2016, Trump was essentially the only populist contender competing. It’s becoming increasingly common for Republican primary candidates to talk like this “Republican strategist Alex Conant acknowledged as much.

This highlights the Republican Party’s Trump-led metamorphosis since he was voted out of office in 2020, even as some party leaders want to steer the party away from Trumpism, according to strategists and analysts.

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