I cannot help but think back to 2014 and the Mississippi primary and “runoff”.
Does anyone out there think the Arizona Republicans are any different than the Mississippi Republicans?
I don’t know about MS, but one of the things that recently distressed me greatly was to see that financial assessment of some conservative and Tea Party related organizations that collect millions and millions of dollars from conservatives.
In it, there were a dozen or more that had extremely pitiful $ to candidate vs. expense ratios (mgt, payroll, expenses, etc.). (to me, some of the percentages I’d consider an outright scam).
I remember the founder of one of them on TV in the aftermath of Eric Cantor’s historic embarrassment in Virginia. She was explaining how the ‘helped (or talked to)’ the primary winner with a lot of blah, blah, blah - but they gave him no money. Her added comments were “We’ve been busy helping Chris Daniel to defeat Thad Cochran...blah, blah....”
In the end, I don’t think they really gave him much, if any, either.