He stands for himself and his power, and using the Senate as a retirement home. That he massively outspent, out-organized, and was out-endorsed over his opponent and still couldn’t get above 50% of the vote in an election where Democrats routinely flood the open primary (with NO runoffs) was quite telling.
Field, you could have run a better campaign than Carr ran. I thought it stunk. He ignored the small donors, Seniors, Military, Ret Military. And W TN. Stuck to his own stomping grounds in Mid to East TN and big donors.