Mixed Response to Trump In North Carolina

No major network carried his speech live

Donald Trump could end up unwanted as a supporter by candidates seeking election in 2022. There arguably was not much of a boost for local republican politicians because of his speech in Greenville, N.C., during the state’s annual Repubican Convention.

As reported by The Washington Post, USA Today, CNN, Politico and others, Trump’s remarks were met with mixed results, but it was plain the crowd didn’t seem particularly interested in revisiting 2020 in contrast with Trump’s seeming inability to shut up about it.

There were also reports that some of Trump’s supporters and most importantly, donors, were not impressed with his presentation on Saturday or his past presentations on his properties. The general consensus seemed to be that he spent too much time talking about the past, bragging about how his administration developed the Covid-19 vaccine, kvetching about the election and running Biden down instead of leading the party forward.

He is obviously still obsessed over the election he lost and is more interested in maintaining that basic falsehood that the election was stolen from him than he is in uniting the party behind its mid-term candidates.

Unfortunately, one politician, Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp, received a fair amount of boos and heckling as he took the stage with his family. He is out of Trump’s and his followers’ favor for certifying the 2020…