The GOP helped Regina Seltzer win the RAT nomination by running billboards in which the party thanked Congressman Michael Forbes (who had been a Republican until maybe a year before) for his votes in favor of the Contract with America. Given that Heitkamp and Manchin have been RATs throughout their Senate careers and haven’t voted with the GOP on anything important, it would be very difficult to tout their respective voting records publicly in a way that would be effective in convincing ND and WV Democrats to vote for their moonbat challengers. Besides, I don’t want anyone even to imply that those two faux-moderate Communists have voted anywhere close to how a Republican would have voted. Even the worst RINOs in the Senate have far better voting records than those two (the most liberal RINO in the Senate is Susan Collins, and even she voted for the nuclear option to get rid of the filibuster for SCOTUS nominations, while Manchin and Heitkamp voted to keep the 60-vote requirement to get the Gorsuch nomination to the floor).
Excellent point, my friend.
We certainly don’t want general election voters to get the impression they are conservative.
Manchin has been upset before, by Charlotte Pritt in the 1996 Gov primary, though she was far short of 50% and likely would have lost a runoff with Manchin. Still I pray the Berner psychotic might pull it off.