Potential GOP contenders for president are fanning out and stepping up their involvement in the midterms, boosting candidates as they pitch themselves.
, combined with the full slate of ambitious Republicans, has effectively set off a preliminary campaign for 2024.
Trump’s influence will face a new test in the fall, after his endorsements boosted candidates who some Republicans think could complicate the GOP push to win back control of Congress. Among those candidates is Mehmet Oz, the celebrity doctor trailing in the polls in Pennsylvania’s Senate race. Trump will campaign for Oz and GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano on Sept. 3.
Hogan plans to campaign for Christine Drazan, the Republican gubernatorial candidate in an unusually competitive race in liberal-leaning Oregon, according to advisers to both of them. Hogan has also been boosting other Republicans targeted by Trump, including moderate Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Kemp. Cotton and others scoping out a potential 2024 bid have been stumping for candidates up and down the ballot in both places, even joining candidates for sheriff and state senator. The aide to Cotton said the main goal is “party building” at every level but acknowledged the “added benefit” of groundwork for 2024.Strategists agreed building a reputation in Iowa and New Hampshire is especially important for the many lower-polling candidates eyeing a run.
Other potential 2024 candidates whose voter bases might overlap heavily with Trump’s have struck some contrasts with their endorsements in the midterms. A strategist close to Cruz noted the senator’s early backing of Eric Schmitt, who won the GOP nomination for Senate in Missouri, as well as his support for Rep. Mo Brooks , whom Trump endorsed and then abandoned in Alabama’s Senate race as Brooks sunk in the polls.
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