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GOP Is Leaning Into Moderate, Experienced Senate Candidates In 2024 To Avoid Another Failed Red Wave, Experts Say
The Daily Caller ^ | July 9, 2023 | ARJUN SINGH

Posted on 07/09/2023 5:57:15 PM PDT by Bratch

Republicans are looking to recruit moderate and experienced candidates for Senate races in 2024 to avoid a repeat of losses in the 2022 midterms, GOP campaign experts and conservative commentators told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), the GOP’s campaign arm responsible for Senate elections, is looking to place moderate nominees with elected experience in competitive races, experts told the DCNF. An emphasis on electability offered by experienced candidates, they said, is essential to winning — unlike novice candidates subscribing to former President Donald Trump’s brand of populism. (RELATED: In Blow To GOP, Rep. Mike Gallagher Decides Against Senate Run)

In the 2022 midterm elections, Trump’s endorsement helped several populist candidates in Arizona, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Georgia win primary races over moderate candidates. All of them went on to lose their elections, which observers ascribed to their Trump-style views that were unpalatable to general election voters, with a “red wave” failing to materialize.

The concern has led to “electability” as being a top priority for candidates endorsed by the NRSC. A spokesperson for Republican Sen. Steve Daines of Montana, the NRSC’s chairman, told the DCNF that his “number one priority is recruiting candidates who can win a primary and a general election.”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gope; rinos; senate; swampcreatures; uniparty
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To: Bratch

I wouldn’t give a dime to these fabian republican candidates.

I want patriotic, traditionalist, Christian, native born Americans.


121 posted on 07/10/2023 4:59:05 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: cowboyusa

No doubt. For example Maine is never going to elect a conservative.
So electing a Moderate is the best one can get. I get that.


122 posted on 07/10/2023 5:00:18 AM PDT by tennmountainman (FUJB)
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To: lowbridge

“Because of Democrat voter fraud.”

And the RNC - and even many here, didn’t go all-in to support the candidates we had - “principles” they called it.


123 posted on 07/10/2023 5:20:07 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: Bratch

Moderates = Republican who are really Democrats, but won’t say it!


124 posted on 07/10/2023 5:20:29 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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To: Bratch

Yah, RINO’s Unite!!!!


125 posted on 07/10/2023 5:44:47 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: Bratch

Correlation is not causation. Just because PDJT endorsed some candidates that failed doesn’t mean it was *because* he did.

This is just the RNC machine still trying to purge PDJT and act as though he isn’t popular. He isn’t, with them. Neither are they, with us.


126 posted on 07/10/2023 5:51:52 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Bratch
Oh great! "If elected I promise to just do whatever the demoncraps tell me to do." Hell of a republican party plank you've got there.

The party is no longer needed at this point. Replace it with the MAGA Party.


127 posted on 07/10/2023 6:07:52 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Well, you are definitely in the minority among republican voters.


128 posted on 07/10/2023 7:56:35 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: Bratch

Unfortunately, there is some truth to all this. Look at what happened in Michigan just a year ago. Trump, Guilliani and the pillow guy got some ridiculous candidates and they got slaughtered. Michigan Republican party, and the State, is set back 10+ years. It may even lead to Whitmer to president


129 posted on 07/10/2023 7:56:57 AM PDT by Oystir
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To: MinorityRepublican

Other possibility: Allen West


130 posted on 07/10/2023 10:16:48 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: tennmountainman

PA can be won,but only with ballot harvesting.


131 posted on 07/10/2023 10:20:50 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! )
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To: Kazan
How much money did Trump donate to helphis endorsed candidates in the 2022 election cycle?

Mitch McConnell actually help them more than Donald Trump did.

132 posted on 07/10/2023 10:24:20 AM PDT by hcmama
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To: cowboyusa

Yep.


133 posted on 07/10/2023 10:38:34 AM PDT by tennmountainman (FUJB)
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To: Jim Robinson; Maris Crane

👍🏼 👍🏼


134 posted on 07/10/2023 11:53:32 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: hcmama

How much money did Trump donate to helphis endorsed candidates in the 2022 election cycle?

Mitch McConnell actually help them more than Donald Trump did.


Nonsense.

Former President Donald Trump’s super PAC donated $20 million this month to another PAC responsible for supporting Trump’s endorsed candidates.

Trump’s PAC, Save America, donated $20 million to Make America Great Again Inc. (MAGA-Inc), according to FEC filings released Oct. 27 (pdf).

How much did your boy Midge donate....out of his Senate Republicans war (to KEEP RINOs) chest/slush fund?

We DO know he donated to Liz Cheney.....the traitor House lefty.

And, did your honey happen to flip the Senate?

Your TDS is showing again, m-m-mamma.

No....make that your UniParty/RINO TDS....bwahahaha.


135 posted on 07/10/2023 12:03:25 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: Bratch; Impy; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; LS; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; ...

Keep nominating left-wing RINOs and you’ll have plenty of Commie RED tsunamis for the Demonrats.


136 posted on 07/10/2023 12:18:06 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Trump also won in 2020. He will win again in 2024.


137 posted on 07/10/2023 12:18:58 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: Bratch

Wave those white flags McRonna.


138 posted on 07/10/2023 12:31:40 PM PDT by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
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To: Bratch

Moderate means Trans Dem like Romney and Collins, etc.

They’ll vote with Dems on omnibus budgets, big government spending, climate hoaxes etc al.

No thanks.


139 posted on 07/10/2023 12:34:06 PM PDT by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Y-you mean ever time I hit my head with this hammer, my brains will leak out the crack?/s


140 posted on 07/10/2023 12:46:58 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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