‘Delusional fool’: Republicans aren’t happy about Trump’s meddling

President Donald Trump has a “delusional” obsession that even those on the right warn will hand a “win” to Democrats. This is according to Zachary Faria, commentator at the conservative outlet the Washington Examiner, who claims that Trump’s fixation will deliver victory to his opponents in a key battleground state.

“President Donald Trump cannot give up on his delusional 2020 election conspiracy theories,” writes Faria. “As a result, he has decided to hand Minnesota Democrats easy control of their state in the 2026 midterm elections.”

Faria notes that there is an “obvious” example of how Trump’s meddling will result in a critical loss for the GOP.

“On Wednesday,” writes Faria, “Trump endorsed MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for the GOP nomination for governor in Minnesota. Lindell is an obvious loser waiting to happen, a man with no political pedigree beyond his conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, which led to Lindell losing a defamation lawsuit against an employee of Dominion Voting Systems. Of all the possible GOP Minnesota nominees, Lindell is polling the worst because he is a delusional fool with nothing to offer voters.”

According to Faria, there are more logical alternatives who have proven their electoral viability, “but Lindell was already narrowly leading GOP primary polling before Trump’s endorsement, and it’s not clear that any amount of objections from the Minnesota GOP is going to make a difference now that Trump has put his finger on the scale.”

Faria asserts that the GOP could wage a competitive campaign in light of recent allegations of fraud against Democratic leadership in the state, but “a Lindell nomination would practically remove fraud as an election issue, as it and everything else would be drowned out by a firehose of stories about Lindell’s conspiracy theories in a state that already leans toward electing Democrats.”

What’s more, Faria warns that Trump’s meddling would not only deny Republicans the Minnesota governorship, but would hinder downballot conservatives. According to Faria, “It will jeopardize House seats held by the GOP and will certainly hamstring state representatives. Both the Minnesota state House and state Senate are practically even, but putting Lindell at the top of the ticket against Klobuchar will give Democrats a boost in state legislative races and allow them to get an even tighter grip on state power.”

From a conservative perspective, writes Faria, the conclusion is grim: “This is all completely avoidable, but Trump is once again allowing his ego to win out over sane political decision-making. Trump would rather see Republicans lose in Minnesota than stop talking about his 2020 election conspiracy theories, just as he sabotaged the Georgia Senate races in 2021. Those two Georgia Senate seats are still held by Democrats to this day. Trump’s self-sabotage of the GOP will have similar effects years into the future, far beyond when he leaves office.”