Senate Republicans have one clear edict from Mitch McConnell heading into the midterms: Embrace electable candidates who can reclaim the majority. Actually achieving that goal is proving impossible.
heading into the midterms: Embrace electable candidates who can reclaim the majority. Actually achieving that goal is proving impossible.” O’Donnell in 2010 as the poster child for haphazard campaigns that lost them winnable races. Even so, their laissez-faire approach to critical primaries risks saddling them with Republican nominees who blow it in November.
Republicans long assumed that either Mehmet Oz or David McCormick would prevail in Tuesday’s primary. A half-dozen GOP senators said this week that they hadn’t even heard of right-wing Pennsylvania Senate hopeful Kathy Barnette until reading stories by POLITICO and the Philadelphia Inquirer about her rise.
Trump said in a telerally for Oz on Thursday night that “the problem is nobody knows what she is, what she stands for, who she is. It’s very risky.” Asked whether he worries about Barnette winning, McConnell would only say: “We’re all watching with interest.”of Pennsylvania. If Republicans lose, their path back to the majority becomes much more complex, requiring them to net at least two seats elsewhere on a 50-50 Senate map filled with battle-tested Democratic incumbents.
Senate Republicans’ heavy-handed approach in 2010 didn’t exactly work either: Just ask NRSC-endorsed Charlie Crist, a Republican-turned-Democrat who lost his 2010 primary battle to now Sen.. Some in the party want to try a different approach: rather than picking candidates in primary fields, they’d like to focus more on calling out risky Republican hopefuls. That way, the GOP could follow through on its pledge not to nominate general election losers.
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