[Zathras]

Agreed.
If the GOP had run a Senate Candidate in CA who came as close to winning as Beto did in TX, it would have shaken CA to its foundations.

The MSM has caused us to loose critical States like WI, PA and possibly AZ
Do the math.....

[wiseprince]

That’s not how it works...”Obama” lost a Senate seat in Massachusetts and the GOP ran a candidate who was its Governor and Obama didn’t even have to campaign there. “Trump” lost Montana, he will not lose Montana in 2020. As much as Trump tried he wasn’t on the ballot and every Rupuke doesn’t have the same appeal as Trump does. Also, Trump know how defend Trump policies and will do so unequivocally. That’s not true for anyone else running.

[cuban leaf]

Every year the MSM has less power than they did the year before.

[Trump.Deplorable]

MSM did not cause us to lose those states, we lost those states because our candidates sucked.

We needed to field better candidates, instead of just GOPee hacks because it was their turn

[Buckeye McFrog]

The MSM has caused us to loose critical States like WI, PA and possibly AZ

I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you there.

PA has NEVER been onboard with mainstream GOP economics (free market or Chicago school or trickle down....whatever you wish to call it). PA was willing to support Trump precisely because he represented a break from that.

Many people here have been intrinsically programmed to vote Democrat through literally decades of propaganda pumped out by labor unions. They only veer from that if the Dem candidate is too radical. Thus the Dems continue to fool them with white, clean-cut, relatively unthreatening candidates like Conor Lamb.

For that reason Pat Toomey remains very, VERY vulnerable should the Dems ever manage to nominate someone who isn't a fringe criminal screaming lunatic.

The GOP's biggest problem is that they run sh*tty candidates.

[ScottinVA]

If the GOP had run a Senate Candidate in CA who came as close to winning as Beto did in TX, it would have shaken CA to its foundations.

The only way that would happen now is if Cali split into at least two entities. As it is now, that state is lost.

[MrEdd]

You do not seem to understand anything at all about Texas.
Robert Francis didn’t do well here because of anything positive about himself.

When a mob of violent lefists attacked voters attending Trump’s Chicago rally in 2016, Ted Cruz claimed that the fault lay with the voters and Donald Trump.

This isn’t California. That doesn’t fly in Texas, and medium and long term the Republicans will have to find another candidate if they wish to retain the seat.