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Kaitlan Collins Turns the Screw With Brutal Trump Montage

The president’s support doesn’t have the clout it once did.

CNN host Kaitlan Collins has shredded President Donald Trump in a new supercut exposing the dwindling power of his endorsement.

On Thursday’s edition of The Source, Collins flagged how the 80-year-old “personally backed a slew of candidates that lost in huge races.”

Trump spent much of the run-up to the midterms going all-in on several candidates. He traveled to cherry-red states to stump and give them his full support in a bid to shore up votes that once would have been sure things for the GOP.

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It was a doomed operation, as his Senate picks for states including South Carolina and Texas fell in historic defeats to Democratic challengers.

“That guy is a winner, and he’s tough as hell. For you, he’s tough,” he said of Rep. Michael Collins, who ran for the Senate in Georgia.

Collins was also on the receiving end of one of the looks-obsessed president’s ocular pat-downs, saying at a separate rally, “I actually think Mike Collins is a good-looking man. And, and he’s all man. He’s all man.”

It didn’t pay off, and Jon Ossoff easily batted him away in a 16-point mauling.

Trump also went out to bat for Michael David Whatley during his run for a North Carolina Senate seat.

“Michael Whatley is a warrior, and he’s a warrior for North Carolina—He’s a natural warrior for North Carolina. Michael is a warrior.”

Whatley had been hoping to secure outgoing Thom Tillis’s seat, but it was no good, taking an almost 20-point spanking from Democrat Roy Cooper.

Former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers was running in Michigan, where Abdul El-Sayed ultimately schooled him in a 7-point Senate victory.

“Mike Rogers is apple pie,” Trump had said previously on the tarmac by Air Force One. “He’s a perfect guy for our country.”

“Very good candidate,” he’d also gushed at a rally. “Very, very strong, very good Mike Rogers. Very good candidate.”

Ken Paxton in Texas got the treatment too. Trump regularly called him the greatest Attorney General the U.S. had ever seen, though he often couldn’t help but insult him in the process.

Even when he praised Paxton’s loyalty for sticking with him while he was being criticized, Trump said previously on the campaign trail: “I have to always remember that, because he could be a pain in the a-- sometimes. I’ll be honest.”

Darline Graham in South Carolina got it too. She had taken over the seat from her late brother Lindsey and was regularly called “fantastic” by Trump. She lost.

“Well, that’s what the president said about those candidates who were on the ballot,” Collins said after the cut.

“Tonight in all caps, he wrote this and said, ‘I just wasn’t on the ballot. If I were, we would have won in a landslide.’ But that’s not what the president told voters over and over and over again, right before the election.”

She then played a second cut of Trump in various contexts, pleading with voters to “pretend” that he had been on the ballot on Tuesday.

It didn’t work.

The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment.

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