NEW: Trump’s Top Allies Abandon Karrin Taylor Robson’s Sinking Ship

NEW: Trump’s Top Allies Abandon Karrin Taylor Robson’s Sinking Ship

New reporting from Axios details how Donald Trump’s top allies – campaign manager Chris LaCivita, pollster Tony Fabrizio, and PAC leader Chris Grant – are jumping ship from Karrin Taylor Robson’s weak, floundering gubernatorial bid.

Axios reports that political infighting and feuding between Taylor Robson and Trump’s advisers over ads she “promised” to run touting Trump’s endorsement caused them to abandon ship.

This follows Trump announcing a new, dual endorsement of both Taylor Robson and Andy Biggs – a huge blow to Taylor Robson’s campaign that Arizona Republican strategists mocked as a “death knell.” New polling shows Biggs leading her by a whopping 29 points.

DGA Communications Director Sam Newton said: “Even Republicans know that Karrin Taylor Robson is a weak and flawed candidate. It’s no wonder why they’re tripping over themselves to abandon her.”

Read more from Axios about Karrin Taylor Robson’s doomed gubernatorial bid:

• Three of President Trump‘s top political lieutenants are abandoning the campaign of Arizona gubernatorial candidate Karrin Taylor Robson amid a flap that led Trump to simultaneously endorse a second Republican in the 2026 primary.

• Driving the news: The exodus from Robson’s campaign came after Trump’s advisers spent months urging her to air TV ads promoting his endorsement — which she’d promised to do, according to three people familiar with the situation.

• What they’re saying: “It takes special skill to botch a GOP primary with the Trump endorsement, but unfortunately that’s what this candidate has single-handedly assured,” one GOP strategist told Axios.

• “It’s basically the greatest self-own in GOP political history.”

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