Republican Michigan Congressman Bill Huizenga tells the Detroit News that he won’t be entering the GOP primary for next year’s Senate race, leaving the field empty save for 2024 loser former Congressman Mike Rogers, trying again after his defeat to Elissa Slotkin. “After careful consideration with Natalie and my family, as well as in consultation with President Trump, I have decided against a bid for US Senate in Michigan,” said Huizenga, which translated to normie-speak means “Trump told me I can either stay in my seat or be out of a job in 2027 because he’s not endorsing me.”

If there’s one thing that Trump has been doing right – in his own self-interest, of course – or at least appears to not be acting like a fucking complete shitbrain in it’s been his management of the party ahead of the midterms. It was obvious enough with the gerrymandering fights he’s starting in Texas and supposedly Ohio and even Missouri in his obsessive quest to maintain the House GOP’s majority but the other side is the admittedly impressive level of discipline he’s enforcing on front-line seats, that just in a single morning we’ve got Mike Lawler and Bill Hugzafucka whatever his name is announcing they’re staying put to give the fat bastard fewer open House districts to worry about.

Outside of the shitshow in Texas, which is kind of a sui generis situtation given the mutual loyalty between Trump and Picasso-faced Attorney General Ken Paxton, it’s definitely a switch from 2022 Trump’s absolute fucking trainwreck of a candidate slate. Hugzagroina may or may not be more electable than a guy who last year lost a Senate race in a state Trump won by like 80,000 votes but the Orange God Emperor isn’t willing to find out and values his House seat more than a Senate flip.