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A popular November 2018 U.S. election night Twitter thread, created by writer and Twitter user Ally Maynard, followed a collection of candidates President Trump had supported on Twitter for the 2018 midterm elections. Each time an endorsed candidate lost, she tweeted a picture of the President’s endorsement of that candidate: Based on this Twitter thread, the website Gritpost did some back-of-the-envelope-calculations to derive a headline claim that 71 Percent of Trump-Endorsed Candidates Lost Their Elections Last Night: While this figure might be accurate if limited exclusively to Twitter endorsements (though we have not investigated that approach), the headline claim regarding 71 percent of Trump-endorsed candidates is false, as it implies that 71 percent of all the candidates President Trump endorsed lost their election bids. If we consider House, Senate, and gubernatorial candidates as the pool of endorsements, Donald Trump issued 93 endorsements of candidates running in U.S. Senate, U.S. House, and gubernatorial races. (This figure does not include endorsements for primary elections or for non-gubernatorial positions in state governments.) Of that endorsement pool, as of 9 November 2018 some 50 candidates had won their election bids, 37 had lost, and six remained in races still too close to call. Conservatively speaking, that means Trump’s endorsements won at least 54% of their races and at most lost 41% of them: a far cry from the 71% the headline suggested. Below is a list of each of the Congressional and gubernatorial candidates President Trump endorsed, broken down by outcome (Updated 12 November 2018): Trump-endorsed candidates who won their races (50): Trump-endorsed candidates who lost their races (38): Trump endorsed candidates whose races have not yet been called (5):
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