'Disconnected From The Base': Women For Trump Founder Urges Followers To Abandon Trump, Should They?

By Emanuel Eisen | Friday, 24 June 2022 05:15 AM
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'Disconnected From The Base': Women For Trump Founder Urges Followers To Abandon Trump, Should They?

The co-founder of Women for Trump and an organizer of the former President’s Jan. 6 rally is calling for the GOP to stray from his influence, slamming the former President for being “disconnected from the base.”

Amy Kremer denounced former President Donald Trump for supporting Katie Britt, who won Rep. Mo Brooks in the Republican primary for an Alabama Senate seat on Tuesday night. Trump had first endorsed Brooks, later recalling his endorsement after Brooks’s polling numbers began to decline and the Senate candidate suggested GOP voters to move on from the 2020 election.

“It’s time for those of us in the movement to get back to basics, back to our first principles,” Kremer told Politico. “We were here long before President Trump came along, and we’re going to be here long afterward.”

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Kremer had backed Brooks in his Senate bid, maintaining that Trump was “way wrong” in reversing course. The former President claimed he revoked his endorsement because of Brooks’s comments to move past the 2020 election, but it’s likely Trump wanted to avoid having an endorsed candidate lose in a state where he is heavily favored.

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As a result, Trump delivered his coveted approval to Britt, extending his endorsement success rate in the contentious midterm election primary cycle. Elsewhere, the former president didn’t fare so well on Tuesday. The night’s runoff elections in Georgia once again put the power of Trump’s endorsement to the test after two of his endorsees flopped, adding to his list of failed endorsements in the state.

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Kremer’s remarks follow other cracks within the Republican Party, particularly as Trump has criticized House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for not picking additional Republicans to sit on the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) rejected some of his choices.

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“I think in retrospect [McCarthy should’ve put Republicans on] to just have a voice. The Republicans don’t have a voice. They don’t even have anything to say," Trump told Punchbowl News. “I think it would’ve been far better to have Republicans [on the panel]. [Jim Banks and Jim Jordan] were great. They were great and would’ve been great to have them. But when Pelosi wrongfully didn’t allow them, we should’ve picked other people. We have a lot of good people in the Republican Party.”

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Former President Donald Trump may see himself as a winner, but the candidates he endorses don’t always win. In fact, his endorsement often helps the opponents of his candidates.

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That was true in the 2018 midterm elections, and a similar effect could happen in the upcoming 2022 midterms. One early indication: In late July, Republican and Trump endorsee Susan Wright lost to fellow Republican Jake Ellzey in the special election runoff in Texas’ 6th Congressional District.

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