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{"id":26879,"date":"2026-08-19T14:48:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-says-he-told-cory-mills-to-get-out-of-the-race\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:48:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:48:30","slug":"trump-says-he-told-cory-mills-to-get-out-of-the-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-says-he-told-cory-mills-to-get-out-of-the-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he told Cory Mills to \u2018get out of the race\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump says he told Florida Rep. Cory Mills to exit the Republican primary before his election defeat Tuesday but that the embattled lawmaker \u201cwouldn\u2019t listen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mills, who was defeated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/08\/18\/cory-mills-lost-primary-01041302\" target=\"_blank\">former local television news reporter Ryan Elijah<\/a> on Tuesday night in Florida\u2019s 7th District, was dogged by a litany of scandals, including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/10\/14\/cory-mills-restraining-order-florida-00608307\" target=\"_blank\">restraining order issued by a Florida judge<\/a> last year after a former girlfriend accused him of threatening to reveal her sexually explicit videos.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Trump endorsed him in February. But the president suggested on Truth Social on Wednesday that he was far from confident in the prospect of a Mills victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told Congressman Cory Mills of Florida, a friend of mine, to get out of the Race, but he wouldn\u2019t listen,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117122454656898588\" target=\"_blank\">Trump wrote on Truth Social<\/a>. \u201cHe thought he could win, so who can blame him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president immediately backed Elijah, whom he said \u201cstands for EVERYTHING MAGA, and is respected by ALL.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mills isn\u2019t the only Trump-backed Republican to see defeat in a GOP primary this summer. A slew of the president\u2019s governor picks \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/08\/15\/trump-endorsement-losses-01038555\" target=\"_blank\">including Mike Lindell in Minnesota and Randy Feenstra in Iowa<\/a> \u2014 were bested by other candidates. So too were Reps. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) and Navy veteran Amir Hassan. Catalina Lauf, the president\u2019s choice for Florida\u2019s 19th congressional district, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/08\/18\/florida-angie-nixon-trump-democratic-republican-primary-2026-01041405\" target=\"_blank\">lost on Tuesday to media executive Jim Schwartzel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t the first time Trump has distanced himself from a Republican after defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Ogles, he <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117054989318193595\" target=\"_blank\">said in a Truth Social post<\/a> after the Tennessee primary, \u201cwas a person who I remained loyal to even though he had virtually no chance of winning.\u201d And his opponent, former Tennessee Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Hatcher, was another \u201cGreat \u201cTrump\u201d Candidate,\u201d the president wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump says he told Florida Rep. Cory Mills to exit the Republican primary before his election defeat Tuesday but that the embattled lawmaker \u201cwouldn\u2019t listen.\u201d Mills, who was defeated by former local television news reporter Ryan Elijah on Tuesday night in Florida\u2019s 7th District, was dogged by a litany of scandals, including a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}