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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NJ Oz was an awful canidate for PA.
Bingo.
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.
Money is the mother’s milk of politics.
The conservative GOP candidates got outspent by the democrats by several hundred million dollars in 2022.
That is rediculous Rhonda mcrhombus IS the swamp. Trump 1.0 trusted way too many swamp snakes, hopefully, no more of that.
I agree, keep him away from President Trump. The South Carolina crowd was sending President Trump a message.
Most of us here are still Republicans, as is President Trump.
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.
World’s Shortest Book: “Great Moderates In History”
This is like a bad joke that keeps getting retold and retold. Every. Damn. Election cycle.
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”
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.
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.
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
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.
Milquetoast rules.
I would submit that about 46 of the 49 seats Republicans hold have been thrown away.
It appears that you have chosen THE MOST accurate name for yourself.
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I actually like Mike Pompeo. He remained as a loyalist at the end of Trump's presidency.
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