Jungle primaries usually always help Democrats. Why implement a Democrat trap? Just find a candidate who can beat Tester.
It won’t help him in my state of Montana, which is moving in the same political direction as Florida as the Democrats get more extreme each election.
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“Jungle primaries usually always help Democrats. Why implement a Democrat trap? Just find a candidate who can beat Tester.”
A. These primaries “help Democrats”, if at all, only in heavily Democrat states or districts. Montana isn’t California or Washington. Yet.
Jungle primaries don’t help Democrats one bit in Louisiana anymore because the state isn’t 90%+ Democrat like it was in the 1970s when Eddie Edwards first implemented that scheme in order to screw Republicans.
B. This ensures a 1-on-1 battle in November, without Democrat shenanigans such as getting a Libertarian on the ballot to take votes away from the Republican, as happened in 2018.
The Libertarian (Rick Breckenridge) in that race, eventually realizing that he was just a dupe for the loony left and displeased with a particular dirty Democrat trick during the campaign, withdrew very late in the race and endorsed the R candidate. Tester got 50% — just barely — anyway.
This jungle primary may end up having no effect on the race whatsoever, even assuming some liberal judge doesn’t strike down this law before it’s ever used, but I give the Montana GOP credit for trying.
The reason they usually help Democrats is that they are usually done in Democrat strongholds. Republicans in Red States need to start adopting the same winning strategies the Democrats use. This is not the same as that ranked choice garbage.
The Democrat ballot fraud machine rigs Montana for Tester.
Cankles 2016 Tester 2018 Trump 2016 Rosendale 2018 Montana 177,709 253,876 143% 279,240 235,963 85%
The 75,000 extra Democrat ballots appeared like mushrooms in 2018...
It looks like a one-off deal if it were a permanent system like the one in California I would be unhappy.
I saw a deal here in Pennsylvania done to protect Pat Toomey when he was in the US Senate saying no candidate could get on the ballot to challenge him in a primary without a high bar for signatures.