suck up

“Trump loves to see people scramble and suck up.”

A clown car full of grifters and kooks, meanwhile, used the primaries as an opportunity to suck up to Trump, whom everyone knew would inevitably be the nominee.

“You’ve got Trump saying nice things about Hitler? And sucking up to Putin? No. He is clearly our enemy, Putin,” Cowles said.

The race for the White House is sucking up all the oxygen, to echo an old political cliche.

Trump, meanwhile, is likely to keep up his same strategy, trying to suck up all the media attention so that the low-propensity voters don’t hear what Harris has to say.