08/19/2026
BREAKING: Trump Goes 0 for 3 on Primary Night as Endorsed Candidates Lose in Florida and Wyoming
Trump told Truth Social it was "a lot of great WINS tonight!!!" He lost three races.
Tuesday was a brutal night for Trump's political operation. Three candidates he personally endorsed lost their primary races, including two in his own home state of Florida. It is the latest in a streak that now includes Mike Lindell losing in Minnesota last week and two sitting congressmen he backed losing their seats the week before that.
In Florida's 19th district, Trump threw his weight behind Catalina Lauf, a twice-failed Illinois congressional candidate who had recently moved to the district she wanted to represent. The day before the election an audio recording surfaced of Lauf unable to name her county commissioner, school board member, or even the local mayor during a meeting with a political action committee. She lost by seven points. Her campaign responded to the tape by threatening legal action and complaining she had been "deliberately ambushed." Voters were not moved.
Also in Florida, Trump-backed incumbent Rep. Cory Mills went down by more than 13 points to a former local television reporter. Mills was under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, facing an arrest warrant for an alleged physical assault that the Trump Justice Department quietly refused to sign, and had a restraining order issued against him by a judge over allegations he threatened to leak sexual videos of an ex-girlfriend. Trump backed him anyway.
In Wyoming, Trump's gubernatorial pick Megan Degenfelder was losing by more than 17 points to a rancher and state senator with 38 percent of the vote counted.
Three endorsements. Three losses. One Truth Social post claiming victory.
The MAGA machine is not as invincible as it looks.
