You are delusional, the GOPe hates West and he was gerrymandered out of an easy win into an easy loss. We do this all the time, just like we did to Trump.
Every day now we see red meat issues that the GOP says they are introducing now that they have zero power to bring any of them to a vote. Then consider what they promised to act on if only we gave them all three branches then consider the ones they didn't make any attempt to pass. Republicans always get more conservative as elections get closer.
Many Republicans are secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Dan Bongino.
FL-18 was specifically created to give both West and Rooney (moved to FL-17) an easy layup.
Rooney hit the shot and West missed, and cementing his loss (and future exodus to Texas), West's FL-18 opponent Patrick Murphy was a rare one-termer, replaced by Brian Mast, who would later be a finalist for Trump's VA Sec'y.
FL-18 got West out of FL-22 versus the inexplicably popular West Palm Beach Mayor Loi$ Frankel, and gave West a weak primary candidate in Crowder, instead of having to take on Rooney. Get your facts straight.