Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
A couple of years ago, Rep. Jim Jordan insisted that Donald Trump’s endorsement is the most powerful expression of political support in the history of the United States. The Ohio Republican’s sentiment echoed the rhetoric the former president has pushed himself for years. In fact, it was just a few months earlier when Trump declared that his endorsement was “considered by the real pollsters to be the strongest endorsement in U.S. political history.
In South Carolina, Trump went out of his way to endorse and try to rally support for right-wing pastor Mark Burns, who was competitive in his primary race, but who ended up falling short against Sherri Biggs, an Air National Guard lieutenant colonel who had Gov. Henry McMaster’s support. It’s worth adding for context that in Utah’s congressional primary, Trump endorsed incumbent Rep.
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