{"id":36041,"date":"2022-05-25T15:10:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T20:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=36041"},"modified":"2022-05-25T15:10:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T20:10:07","slug":"just-how-mad-is-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/05\/25\/just-how-mad-is-he\/","title":{"rendered":"Just How Mad Is He?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While musing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/maddowblog\/perdue-loses-ga-trumps-vendetta-fails-spectacularly-rcna30445\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">yet another snark<\/a> about Trump&#8217;s failure to upend Governor Brian Kemp (R-GA) in the primary, it suddenly occurred to me:<\/p>\n<p>Will Trump endorse Kemp, or would he consider endorsing the <strong>Democratic<\/strong> candidate, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stacey_Abrams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stacey Abrams<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a mad bit of logic to the latter choice that leads to win-win. If Abrams wins, Trump gets sweet revenge on Kemp after all. And if Abrams loses, Trump can call it the <em>Trump Curse<\/em> and take credit for Kemp&#8217;s victory.<\/p>\n<p>If only in his odd little world.<\/p>\n<p>Out here in the real world, though, that might peel off a large chunk of the <strong>MAGA<\/strong> base. Kathy Barnette, defeated candidate for the <em><strong>GOP<\/strong><\/em> nomination to the open Senate seat in Pennsylvania, has already suggested that <strong>MAGA<\/strong> can live without Trump around.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;d sure upset the <em><strong>GOP&#8217;s<\/strong><\/em> world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While musing on yet another snark about Trump&#8217;s failure to upend Governor Brian Kemp (R-GA) in the primary, it suddenly occurred to me: Will Trump endorse Kemp, or would he consider endorsing the Democratic candidate, Stacey Abrams? There&#8217;s a mad bit of logic to the latter choice that leads to \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/05\/25\/just-how-mad-is-he\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36042,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36041\/revisions\/36042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}