If you don't have qualified candidates who speak truth to power, what do you think those voters are going to do?
This is simply a failure of the Republican Party that continuously cede big-city and blue state races to the Dems without giving these voters an honest choice.
See my comment #14 on this thread.
I worked for a Republican candidate in 2002, and since it was the Upper East Side, it started to look like he might have a chance. So the state party gave him a few million. Otherwise, they don’t. It’s just throwing money away.
As I said, it’s a vicious circle. Once we are in this bad of a shape, much worse than 2002, it can never get any better.
I know the one thing that might work but I’d be a fool to tell it here. If a campaign really wanted my advice, and not just my labor, I’d tell them.