I won’t dispute that as I don’t know much about him to be honest. But I do know he’d be have to be better than Cortez Masto.
I’m not convinced that a solid conservative can win statewide in Nevada any more with the pro-Democrat demographic shifts that have occurred in the state. Trump lost by only a couple of points both times, and Masto only won in 2016 by a couple of points, which may suggest there is reason to hope, but overall the trend in Nevada has been bleak over the last decade, ever since Sandoval coasted to re-election in 2010. That was the same year that the GOP flushed a chance to defeat the unpopular and loathsome Harry Reid in his last race by nominating the hapless Sharon Angle. Then Masto succeeded the retiring Reid in 2016 defeating Representative Heck. If I remember, Heck distanced himself from Trump, but since Trump also lost Nevada I’m not sure that decision by Heck made any difference one way or another.
I just think we need to be realistic. If Nevada voted like Tennessee, Alabama, Idaho, or Wyoming I’d eschew anything less than a genuine conservative (not that those states always deliver), but Nevada is not a conservative State. It’s like another race in 2010 in Delaware, when there’s was a popular, liberal Republican Congressman and former Governor (Castle) who likely would have won the open senate seat, but the unelectable Christine O’Donnell won the nomination instead, and then lost the general in a landslide as everyone knew she would. Now, would Castle have been a good Senator? No. Would he have won re-election in 2016? Maybe. Might he have pulled a Lincoln Chaffee and stopped caucusing as a Republican? Maybe. But would he have been better than the execrable Chris Coons, at least for a while? Yes, he would have been.
Nevada isn’t as bad as Delaware for sure, but it hardly seems like fertile ground for a solid conservative. So if it takes someone like Sandoval to win back the Senate then he’ll do.
—the sad reality is that , with 80% of the population in Clark County, no vote in any of the rest of the state makes any practical difference—
—and I agree he’d be better than C M or “Wacky Jackie”—