{"id":30241,"date":"2026-08-19T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=30241"},"modified":"2026-08-19T11:07:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:07:46","slug":"game-day-trumps-losses-mount-as-campaign-season-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/19\/game-day-trumps-losses-mount-as-campaign-season-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"<span style=\"color:red; font-weight:900;\">GAME DAY!<\/span> Trump&#8217;s losses mount as campaign season looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s primaries did not go well for the elderly golfer\u2026<\/p>\n<p>WaPo: WY-Gov \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/elections\/results\/2026\/08\/18\/wyoming-governor-primary-election-results-2026-live-updates\/\">Trump pick loses primary, adding to string of defeats<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Hill: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/sbdhV#selection-1351.3-1351.37\">Trump takes double blow in Florida<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Raw: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/trump-endorsement-failures\/\">Trump taunted for &#8216;golden touch&#8217; after humiliating defeats<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NBC: FL-07 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/gop-rep-cory-mills-loses-florida-primary-investigations-rcna593238\">GOP Rep. Cory Mills loses his Florida primary amid investigations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NBC: FL-20 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/two-trump-backed-candidates-lose-debbie-wasserman-schultz-wins-tuesday-rcna592392\">Debbie Wasserman Schultz wins Dem primary<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NYT: AK-Sen \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/19\/us\/politics\/peltola-sullivan-alaska-senate-primary.html\">Democrat Mary Peltola Shows Strength in Crucial Alaska Senate Contest<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NBC: FL-Gov \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/republican-byron-donalds-democrat-david-jolly-set-square-floridas-gove-rcna592352\">Republican Byron Donalds and Democrat David Jolly set to square off<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WaPo: FL-Sen \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/elections\/results\/2026\/08\/18\/florida-us-senate-special-primary-election-results-2026-live-updates\/\">Key witness in Trump impeachment trial loses to democratic socialist in Florida Senate primary<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guardian: AK-Gov \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/19\/alaska-senate-primary-results\">Republican senator Dan Sullivan and Democrat Mary Peltola advance<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NBC: WY-Sen \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/trump-backed-pharriet-hageman-wins-republican-senate-primary-wyoming-rcna592388\">Trump did get one win as Rep. Harriet Hageman nabs Republican Senate primary victory<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HuffPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/bribery-sex-crimes-stock-trades-republicans-corruption-problems-go-beyond-trump_n_6a84a67be4b072505bad28a8\">Bribery, Sex Crimes And Stock Trades: Democrats are hoping their opponents\u2019 scandals can lift them in an uphill battle for the Senate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Semafor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/08\/19\/2026\/warren-sends-democrats-600k-for-midterms\">Warren sends Democrats $600K for midterms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s primaries did not go well for the elderly golfer\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}