Will Ken Simpler’s Trump Support Pay Off?
Today’s results will answer many questions. One of the biggest is, did Ken Simpler make the right choice? He could have renounced Trump and run as the non-partisan moderate, a statesman and heir to Mike Castle. That might have created some momentum for the prize he is really after, the Governorship. Instead, he chose silence and thereby became a “Republican party above all” Trump supporter.
It may yet work for him. But he will have lost by winning. He will have locked down the GOP nomination for Governor, but will have simultaneously incinerated any chance of ever being Governor.
Simpler may well lock down the Republican nod for governor, simply because there’s really no one other than him in the public eye for the Republicans. Well…. There’s Scott Walker.
When (if) Simpler goes down, the DEGOP is fully the party of Scott Walker & Trump.
It will have reached third party status in Delaware after Dems and Non-Affiliated.
At a moment in history that called for courage, Simpler could not have run a more cowardly campaign. All so as to not upset the #MAGA idiots. Pathetic.
After pompously saying “leadership matters most when it matters most” in 2014 when he was denouncing a Democrat.
I’m considering a new personal rule; never trust a candidate with an “LLC” in the committee’s name.
Guess it didn’t pay!
Thought: will Shupe go for governor before his legislative record is too long to completely destroy his nonpartisan schtick? Could he run for reelection at the same time?
No. You can only run for one office at a time. That’s why Colin Bonini runs for something when he’s not up for reelection.
Delcollo COULD do it if he doesn’t want to run for reelection, but I suspect that he’s got a better chance of winning reelection than winning statewide as a Republican.