.MaddowBlog: After several women accused him of sexual assault, this GOP candidate clung to Trump like a life preserver. He lost anyway.
For years, Donald Trump has described a scenario that’s effectively automatic: He tells GOP primary voters who to vote for, and they obey his directions. It’s a point of particular pride for the former president.
The problem for the Republican is that his followers, from time to time, ignore his instructions. NBC NewsDonald Trump failed to deliver a victory Tuesday in a Nebraska GOP primary for a gubernatorial candidate accused of groping multiple women, NBC News projects, handing the former president his first loss of this year’s election season.
As of a month ago, Charles Herbster appeared well positioned to win this primary, right up until eight women accused the first-time candidate of. Among the accusers was a sitting GOP state senator, who claimed Herbster reached up her skirt at an event in 2019. In the days that followed, as the first-time candidate denied any misconduct, The Nebraska Examiner, which first broke the story,
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