Every candidate Trump endorsed for 2017 in his own posts, and how each race went: his words with a link to every post, and every result with its source.
2 candidates
1 state
1 race decided
Picks found with AI help · his words checked word for word
Results last checked
His record · 2017
He endorsed 2 people in 2017. 1 lost.
Won 0
Lost 1
Through 0
Waiting 1
Out 0
Primaries and runoffs
0–1
The main vote
0–0
Close ones
0–0
Election Day was Tuesday, November 7, 2017. Won and lost count every vote: a primary loss is a loss.
By state
Won–lost in each state. Tap a state to see only its picks.
Newsdesk, the newsroom tool behind the show, reads every one of Trump’s posts for endorsements (“Complete and Total Endorsement” and the like). Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, picks out who and for which race, and a pick only counts once its quote is found word for word in his post. Every pick links to his posts.
Results come from Wikipedia’s election results, which Newsdesk reads itself. For the few races it can’t find there, Claude searches the web, and those say Found with AI help. Races are looked up again the morning after the vote, then every 6 hours for a week, and each result links to its source. A count can still change until it’s certified.
Every race, his or not, comes from Wikipedia’s pages for the year’s Senate, governor and House elections, where editors mark each winner as the race is called. Newsdesk reads them itself, with no AI, and a call shows here once two reads in a row agree, so one taken back within minutes never shows.