With primary season coming to a close, the contours of next year’s freshman Republican class are coming into focus. Republican primary voters have picked their future representatives in 27 solidly Republican seats, where the general election is effectively a formality.
Former President Donald Trump’s control over the House Republican conference remains strong. All but two of his endorsed candidates won their primaries this cycle, and many more ran as “pro-Trump” candidates who supported his MAGA agenda.
His endorsed candidates ranged from former staffers and die-hard MAGA loyalists to those with personal connections to Trump and his family — as well as those who looked like obvious frontrunners ahead of the primary. In total, the former president endorsed candidates in 16 House Republican primaries this cycle. Ideologically, some are staunch conservatives who will likely join the Freedom Caucus, while others are allies of House GOP leadership.
Meanwhile, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s multimillion-dollar revenge tour against the Republican rebels who ousted him was, for the most part, a failure. Rep. Bob Good, the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, was the only
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