[Kazan]

Establishment Republicans stayed home or wrote-in the name of other candidate.

The Republican party is known as the stupid party for a reason. The establishment is at war with base of its party.

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Establishment Republicans stayed home or wrote-in the name of other candidate.

It's not like they were all Rockefellers or DC swamp creatures. They were people who lived in Alabama, who just couldn't take Roy Moore. They might be your friends or relatives or neighbors if you lived in the state, not millionaires and lobbyists and DC hacks.