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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: HandBasketHell

NJ Oz was an awful canidate for PA.


81 posted on 07/09/2023 7:29:13 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! )
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Bingo.


82 posted on 07/09/2023 7:31:11 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! )
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To: lowbridge
Because of Democrat voter fraud.

Voter fraud did not cause the base to sit on their behinds and keep their wallets closed. Our candidates were left twisting in the wind by those who supposedly supported them - to be overwhelmed and demolished by Democrats.

We can keep living in denial and just keep blaming voter fraud but we have problems way beyond this that allowed races to be close enough to begin with. But some of them were not particularly close.

83 posted on 07/09/2023 7:31:24 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: lowbridge

Money is the mother’s milk of politics.

The conservative GOP candidates got outspent by the democrats by several hundred million dollars in 2022.


84 posted on 07/09/2023 7:32:29 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: mikegreenwell39

That is rediculous Rhonda mcrhombus IS the swamp. Trump 1.0 trusted way too many swamp snakes, hopefully, no more of that.


85 posted on 07/09/2023 7:33:49 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! )
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To: AnthonySoprano

I agree, keep him away from President Trump. The South Carolina crowd was sending President Trump a message.


86 posted on 07/09/2023 7:35:13 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! )
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To: Jim Noble

Most of us here are still Republicans, as is President Trump.


87 posted on 07/09/2023 7:36:33 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! )
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To: Bratch

I guess it gets to the nub of the matter: Moderation is not necessarily the right choice if you want to save America. Making the right choice is what’s needed if you want to save America. Choose carefully. “Getting along” has given us the “diversity” that is destroying us.


88 posted on 07/09/2023 7:44:24 PM PDT by Paraclete
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To: Paraclete

World’s Shortest Book: “Great Moderates In History”


89 posted on 07/09/2023 7:49:43 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Bratch
Republicans are looking to recruit moderate and experienced candidates for Senate races in ... to avoid a repeat of losses

This is like a bad joke that keeps getting retold and retold. Every. Damn. Election cycle.

90 posted on 07/09/2023 8:00:43 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: quantim

The Republicans have had an identity crisis for a long time. They don’t know if they want to be an opposition party (conservative) or a “party that gets things done” (moderate) by working with the Democrats.

There are no moderates in the Democrat party.

“The myth of the moderate Democrat”

https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/the-myth-of-the-moderate-democrat


91 posted on 07/09/2023 8:00:50 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: Bratch

Trump won in 2016. That was 8 years ago. We have new stars like DeSantis and Youngkin. Time to go with them. Trump needs to focus on building his Presidential Library.


92 posted on 07/09/2023 8:04:18 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

I am kind of interested in Mike Pompeo as President.

And in that administration, Donald J. Trump as Secretary of State for 2 years, followed by Donald J. Trump as Secretary of Defense for 2 years.


93 posted on 07/09/2023 8:10:25 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: lowbridge

As it seems we’re in trouble because we’ve ignored or forgotten the basics, below are links to 2 short videos I did a few years ago and posted to YouTube shortly before they stated hassling me and I went to Brighteon and Bitchute. I THOUGHT YouTube scrubbed all my videos but just learned they’re STILL up...for now. ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL, PART 1 (2009) https://youtu.be/8QPQF-oOwrE ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL, PART 2 (2009) https://youtu.be/zelPyGJ19Jc


94 posted on 07/09/2023 8:16:54 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (=uran)
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To: ducttape45

You make a great point but if a Republican voter needed to see more campaign ads in order to convince them to vote for a Republican candidate over a socialist then they shouldn’t be voting.

In Georgia, if a Republican did t vote for Walker in the senate race because they thought he was a bad candidate they should hang their heads in shame.

I’m not one for the “vote for any R over a D” anymore. That’s why we have the grahams, thunes, etc. But if someone was willing to let the balance of the Senate go to the democrats and it understand what was going to happen they’re dumber than dirt.


95 posted on 07/09/2023 8:20:31 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: Bratch

Milquetoast rules.


96 posted on 07/09/2023 8:21:12 PM PDT by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads and Grumpy Grandads.)
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To: Paladin2

I would submit that about 46 of the 49 seats Republicans hold have been thrown away.


97 posted on 07/09/2023 8:23:12 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: MinorityRepublican

It appears that you have chosen THE MOST accurate name for yourself.

Enjoy i

Regards,


98 posted on 07/09/2023 8:25:30 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Maris Crane

Enjoy iT.


99 posted on 07/09/2023 8:26:07 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: linMcHlp
I am kind of interested in Mike Pompeo as President.

I actually like Mike Pompeo. He remained as a loyalist at the end of Trump's presidency.

100 posted on 07/09/2023 8:28:38 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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