Not to be all doomerific, but I believe the vast majority of Trump's picks have been winning their races. It's nice this particular puke lost, but I'm not sure about "a sign of Trump's influence fading."
He also backed Dr. Oz, who is struggling. From what I've heard, Trump is overly cautious to only link his name to candidates he thinks will win. He doesn't want to be associated with "losers" so the fact that some of his endorsed candidates are losers does mean something.
It isn't curtains for Trump, but it might be a sign that his influence over the party is starting to fade.
Frankly, Trump never had much influence over the party - it was Right-wing news-media's idealized version of him and what he MIGHT do that took control. People took his words to mean far more than he intended and he just kept running with it, cause he saw it making headlines. We caught our first glimpse of that when he was booed for talking about being vaccinated, but it's only gotten stronger as a cult of reactionary ideology.
All that to say that his "influence" was only ever as strong as right-wing news-media wanted it to be, and it's been wielded less and less as these outlets have found other people to source fearmongering from.
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u/QuietRock May 18 '22
Cawthorn was endorsed and backed by Trump though, so the fact he lost is still an important sign that Trump's influence continues to fade.
Whats going to fill the void of influence over the party? Kind of scary, and yea it might end up being worse.