Just to make a point (and I HATED McCain) there were many things John McCain was conservative on, especially Right to Life issues. As another poster said there is no chance of traction for a MAGA candidate in Maryland.
I’m not sure that’s true. A Repub almost won NJ Governnorship (probably did without voter fraud). Maybe, like in NJ, the Repubs have simply abandoned these states and with no funding and no interest from the party apparatus, we’ve forfeited any chance in them without a fight?
Everyone says IL is a solid Dem state, but that simply isn’t true. IL was Republican until the liberal Repub. Gov. George Ryan destroyed the Republican party. IL has elected several Repub senators and governors in the last several decades. A republican can win IL under the right conditions, and I have to wonder if the same could be said for many of the liberal NE states.