Supporters turned on the former president days ahead of his anticipated announcement that he will run for the White House in 2024.
One-time Trump ally Chris Christie blamed Trump for the Republican “red wave” failing to materialise.
“How about this? When Donald Trump won in 2016,he said we were going to get so tired of winning we would ask him to stop winning so much,” the former New Jersey governor said.
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“In 2018,we lose the House. In 2020,we lose the Senate and the White House. In 2021,we lose two winnable seats in Georgia.
“And in 2022,we vastly under-perform historic norms given inflation and gas prices and crime and a president at 40 per cent.”
Josh Hawley,a Missouri senator who was one of Trump’s strongest supporters in the Senate,on Twitter called for the party to “build something new”.