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This week has certainly been a bit of a missed bag for former President Donald Trump. Of course, there is the Mar-A-Lago raid by the FBI which has, as one might predict, been both heavily criticized and heavily praised.
We just reported that former Presidential candidate and neurosurgeon Ben Carson tweeted that the entire situation regarding the FBI has gone much the way of Castro and others. This event will, undoubtedly, be one of the more hotly debated political topics for the foreseeable future.
However, there is a bit of a bright spot for Trump this week as some encouraging news has sprang to from Connecticut to present itself.
It is being reported that:
Trump endorsed Republican senate candidate Leora Levy has defeated her two centrist Republican opponents, former state House Minority Leader Themis Klarides and Perennial candidate Peter Lumaj, in the Democrat stronghold of Connecticut allowing her to face incumbent Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D).
Levy, who was a GOP fundraiser and was nominated to be ambassador to Chile by President Trump, won the nomination with 51 percent of the vote compared to her two rivals who obtained 39 percent of the vote and 10 percent of the vote for Klarides and Lumaj, respectively with 80 percent of precincts reporting according to The New York Times.
Sen. Blumenthal has seen decreasing job approval numbers from Connecticut voters with recent polling from Quinnipiac University showing that only 45 percent of voters approved of his job performance while 43 percent disapprove.
Meanwhile, 44 percent of independents, an important voting block, disapprove of the 76-year-old Democrat.
It was further reported that:
During the primary campaign, Levy called Klarides the next Liz Cheney and attacked her for her left-leaning positions on gun control and abortion.
Additionally, Klarides has publicly acknowledged not voting for Trump in 2020, according to The Connecticut Mirror.
The former president endorsed Levy late in the campaign – just last week – saying at an event over the phone on Thursday night that he is “giving tonight my complete and total endorsement to Leora Levy, and she’s going to go out and win this primary.”
Of course, this barely takes the edge off of the seriousness of the FBI raid. It got so bad that the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, and Paul Gosar have all called for the FBI to be either defunded or, indeed, destroyed.
Former Vice President Mike Pence tweeted that he shared, along with millions of Americans, a deep concern of the “unprecedented search”.
Representative Jim Jordan pointed out, alarmingly and thoughtfully, that “if they can do it to a former president, imagine what they can do to you”.
This is, it would seem to, a “silver lining” in the whole week for Trump.
It remains to be seen if Trump does plan on running again, but if he does, it would seem that he can count Connecticut among his allies. This could pay off massive dividends if Trump does decide to run again in 2024.
