I live in this district, I have watched it from day one. This is a race that should have never been closer than 8 points, even with a less than stellar candidate....
Yet the messaging in this race was WRONG from day one.. and horribly so.
To give you an idea of how bad the messaging of this race was, Saccone was running around for the last week or two of the campaign repeatedly publicly saying “I was Trump before Trump”.
This campaign’s message was wrong from the get go. The D’s here are motivated, like they are everywhere, they are going crawl over glass to vote... The R’s simply ran on a campaign message that Lamb was a pelosi lapdog... that’s it... just red meat for the R base, and NOTHING to try to motivate the non traditional Trump/MAGA voter.. which is who they should have been targeting from the get go.
This race was LOST by GROSS INCOMPETENCE throughout the entire GOP ecosystem.
They ran a campaign message that literally could have been for any generic R for the past 15+ years, ignoring completely why TRUMP won this region in 2016!! Both why and HOW he won it.
The GOP LOST THIS RACE, PERIOD... the line people fought harder than I have ever seen in this district, and it was due to their hard efforts that they almost pulled it out in spite of the leaderships incompetence... but this race was LOST due to gross incompetence up and down the GOP food chain.
Fraud didn’t lose this election, this race should have never been closer than 8 points.... Fact is, it was going to be closer than it ever should have and it had NOTHING to do with fraud.
Good report on what happened, and I agree with you.
Did you see the story that an organization affiliated with Paul Ryan released some flyers praising Lamb’s position on the 2A? Might have been Breitbart. Your thoughts? To me, that’s the kind of issue which could save the D in a pro-gun blue-collar district
It was conservative treehouse, not BB. Ryan helped Lamb win?