Are they saying Senate Candidates will be dragged kicking and screaming to the Winner’s Circle?
That is exactly what is happening. President Trump has far more enthusiasm for an overall House and Senate victory for the Republicans in November 2018, than almost anybody else in Republican leadership positions. Paul Ryan doesn’t care, and Mitch McConnell seems uncomfortable with being Senate Majority Leader.
And the Koch Brothers don’t seem all that ambitious about an overall Republican victory either. Either they back Republicans who seem less driven to achieve, and have preemptively surrendered to their Democrat rival, or if by some fluke they DO eke out an electoral victory, they immediately go into “compromise mode”, virtually renouncing just about every talking point they ran on.