US President Donald Trump is touting his endorsees’ victories in statewide Republican primaries with Truth Social posts, now standard fare, while also celebrating the defeat of Alex Vindman to a member of the Democratic Socialists of America in the Democratic primary.
“SleazeBag Vindman loses tonight to a Radical Left Lunatic. How cool is that???” Trump posts to his Truth Social platform.
Vindman, a Kyiv-born Jewish refugee from the former Soviet Union who was a member of the National Security Council in the US, rose to prominence in 2019 when he testified to Congress about a controversial phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during Trump’s first impeachment.
Despite raising 16 times more than his main opponent, Vindman, whose twin brother is a congressman in Virginia, was handily defeated by Angie Nixon, who has made noise in her party for pushing pro-Palestinian legislation on the state level.
Trump’s congratulatory posts, an attempt to burnish the power of his endorsement in Republican primaries, have been arriving in a steady beat every election night.
“A lot of great WINS tonight!!!” the president writes.
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