Death is Their Election Strategy?

Indeed they are following the former guy's destructive strategy that is clearly other destructive and actually self destructive. See Rick Wilson's "Every Thing Trump Touches Dies.
Rich

The protests against covid vaxes and precautions leads to needless deaths. Giving one's life for their country in war is leaps and bounds from doing it to prove loyalty, which is just stupid. Maybe all those vaxed will grow a third eye, but they'll be alive and might have better vision. The rest will be dead, in an almost suicidal manner. The proverbial horse led to the trough, doesn't have to drink. Die instead. It's your right.

From their fetishization of police violence, death penalty, foreign wars, and their general anti-science stances on everything from vaccines to climate change - they unironically are pretty much a death cult.