US 最初の／主要なs will 実験（する） Trump's sway with 共和国の／共和党のs
Former 大統領 Donald Trump, pictured at a 決起大会／結集させる in Greenwood, Nebraska, has made 裏書，是認s in most of the May 2022 最初の／主要な contests
A 一連の bruising May 最初の／主要な contests will 実験（する） Donald Trump's 支配する on the 共和国の／共和党の Party as 投票者s 重さを計る his preferred 候補者s ahead of November's midterm 選挙s, starting Tuesday in Ohio.
A dozen 明言する／公表するs are 持つ／拘留するing 指名するing contests, with a 特に 残虐な 戦う／戦い playing out on the 共和国の／共和党の 味方する の中で 強行路線 権利-wingers 可決する・採択するing the former 大統領，／社長's scorched-earth （選挙などの）運動をする style.
Trump has made 裏書，是認s in most of the contests, making them a litmus 実験（する） of his 影響（力） 18 months after 存在 敗北・負かすd by 大統領 Joe Biden, and of his prospects for another run at the White House in 2024.
Across the 重要な battlegrounds of Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Alabama, nearly four in ten 共和国の／共和党の 2022 上院 最初の／主要な 広告s について言及するd Trump, によれば an AdImpact 分析 供給するd to Punchbowl News.
"The results of the 最初の／主要なs will 実験（する） whether the 共和国の／共和党の base is still the Trump base," Alexander Heffner, host of PBS's long-running "The Open Mind" and co-author of the 来たるべき "A 文書の History of the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs," told AFP.
"If Trump-是認するd 候補者s do not 成し遂げる 好意的に, the trajectory to the 2024 大統領の 指名／任命 will appear different, with the 可能性のある for 独立した・無所属 wings of the party to reemerge."
Author J.D. Vance was 是認するd by former 大統領，／社長 Donald Trump over a slew of more popular 競争相手s
In Ohio, the former reality TV 星／主役にする 選ぶd bestselling author and 投機・賭ける 資本主義者 J.D. Vance as he 企て，努力，提案s to be a 上院 候補者 in one of the most-watched races.
Vance, whose 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" became an Oscar-指名するd Netflix movie, was plucked out by Trump over more popular 競争相手s in a wide-open 最初の／主要な to 取って代わる retiring 共和国の／共和党の 上院議員 略奪する Portman.
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Trump couldn't get Vance's 指名する 権利 at a 決起大会／結集させる in Nebraska on Sunday.
"We've 是認するd J.P., 権利? J.D. Mandel," Trump said during the 決起大会／結集させる, 混乱させるing Vance with one of his competitors, Josh Mandel.
The former 大統領，／社長's 支援 has にもかかわらず 証明するd a 抱擁する boon for Vance, who once called his new patron "America's Hitler" but mo ved from obscurity in the race to a five-point lead after 首尾よく 法廷，裁判所ing Trump's 裏書，是認.
Mehmet Oz, pictured receiving a 星／主役にする on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in February 2022, has built only a small lead since his 裏書，是認 by Donald Trump
While Ohio is on course to 再確認する Trump's 役割 as 共和国の／共和党の 政界の実力者, the 75-year-old has also banked much of his political 資本／首都 in contests that hint at the 限界s of his 地位，任命する-大統領の clout.
On May 17 the 最初の／主要な season takes in the 決定的な battleground 明言する／公表する of Pennsylvania, which has 生成するd headlines with a Trump-支援するd celebrity 上院 候補者 of its own.
Trump's support for Mehmet Oz -- known to his legion of fans on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" as Dr. Oz -- seems to have helped the TV 外科医 leapfrog his closest 競争相手, former 財務省 公式の／役人 David McCormick.
But while Oz has built a small lead, the 投票ing doesn't show him （疑いを）晴らすing the field with a Vance-sized bounce.
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The 火刑／賭けるs are high in Georgia in November, a 明言する／公表する which 投票（する）d 民主党員 last time around but could change the balanc e of 力／強力にする in the 上院 if it swings 支援する 共和国の／共和党の, with 幅の広い 関わりあい／含蓄s for Biden's 大統領／総裁などの地位.
支持者s surrounded by Trump memorabilia listen as David Perdue speaks at a （選挙などの）運動をする event in February 1 2022 in Dalton, Georgia
It is also the 震源地 of Trump's 選挙 故意の誤報 （選挙などの）運動をする and the ますます bitter fight over 投票（する）ing 権利s.
Trump has 繰り返して berated 共和国の／共和党の 知事 Brian Kemp for certifying the 2020 results, which the 知事 was 要求するd to do by 法律 after Biden's victory in the former 共和国の／共和党の 要塞／本拠地.
In a direct 控訴，上告 to Trump 信奉者s who continue wrongly to question the 有効性，効力 of the 選挙, Trump-支援するd former 上院議員 David Perdue has made 誤った （人命などを）奪う，主張するs about 詐欺 a 装飾／要点 of his （選挙などの）運動をする.
Yet Perdue's fortunes are markedly worse since Trump's 裏書，是認, with the gap behind Kemp 広げるing from seven points to a 大規模な 25.
下院議員 Mo Brooks spoke at Donald Trump's 決起大会／結集させる ahead of the 2021 US （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 強襲，強姦
The clearest 脅し to Trump's 政界の実力者 status has come in Alabama, where he enthusiastically 支援するd 下院議員 Mo Brooks, a 目だつ （衆議院の）議長 during the January 2021 Washington 決起大会／結集させる where Trump 解雇する／砲火／射撃d up the 暴徒 that 嵐／襲撃するd the （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂, for the 上院.
Trump 取り消すd that 裏書，是認 in an embarrassing about-直面する last month, however, with Brooks 追跡するing 不正に.
Brooks has since turned on Trump, （人命などを）奪う，主張するing that the former 大統領，／社長 asked him to 不法に "無効にする" the results of the 2020 選挙 and help 除去する Biden from office.
Author, 新聞記者／雑誌記者 and political profiler 示す Leibovich believes reminding 共和国の／共和党のs that Trump's winning streak is not all it is 割れ目d up to be could be the best hope for more 伝統的な 共和国の／共和党のs to 勝利，勝つ their 指名／任命 races.
"The guy lost not only reelection, which is really difficult to do, he lost the 上院 for 共和国の／共和党のs, he lost the House for 共和国の／共和党のs, the White House for 共和国の／共和党のs," Leibovich told MSNBC in a 週末 interview.
"He's the first 共和国の／共和党の in 100 years to lose all three 議会s in a 選び出す／独身 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語."
