The only candidate quality problems I see are the candidates the RINO’s supported. Sure, Trump had a few doozies in there, but his track record or 219-17 is still impressive.
And as a side note, of the 17 who lost, the majority were either from Georgia or Michigan, two states with serious ballot issues.
I suspect that Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp was given the keys to the 2018 "election" [mass ballot adjudication] by parties who wanted him in thrall to their national agenda.
In Michigan, a shadowy "voters group" acquired the 2016 ballots from the red counties [the blue counties were too large to hand over the 2016 ballots till January of 2019].
Unsurprisingly, there was a "blue wave" in the smaller red Michigan counties - but no "blue wave" in the blue counties at all...
US Senator Debbie Stabenow [D-Michigan] in fact nearly out-performed Hillary Clinton 2016 in a MID-TERM "election".
And as a side note, of the 17 who lost, the majority were either from Georgia or Michigan, two states with serious ballot issues.
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...and Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, and Arizona
Add Washington State’s 3rd district to your list. McCarthy played f@ck-f@ck with funding the candidate that defeated GOPe Princess Jaime Herrera-Beutler in the primary. She was a personal fav of ole Kevin’s.
The ex-Green Beret America First candidate lost by 2k votes to a real doozie in the general election. I attended a late forum where the rat bitch actually told the audience they weren’t smart enough to understand the subtle nuances of allowing tranny’s to participate in women’s sports nor understand that drag queen reading hour is good for children. You should have heard the constituents response, can you imagine how stupid a person must be to say something like that at a rural candidate forum?
Because it was mid-October and the ballots had already been mailed out, Joe Kent needed a rapid reaction piece produced and it needed to flood the zone, however McCarthy pulled the funding knowing what was going to happen. Bastard.
Had McCarthy not pulled out, a late media blitz showing the commie bitch saying that stuff would have been 1/2 or more of what was needed to send the commie packing. The other half of the problem here is the stupid rank and file GOP voters in this state have acted like extremely spoiled kids, myself included, concerning the way this state conducts mail-in elections.
Instead of figuring a way to make the system advantageous to the guys/gals wearing the White Hats, we instead dug our heels in and cried like little spoiled children and some of us really intelligent ones stopped voting period. A very smart set of things to do. /sarc
Rumor has it, the scorned candidate Joe Kent is either running to the lead the currently impotent State GOP or is putting together a slate of GOP activists to lead the party next month at the re-organization convention.
Our current 3 time GOP Chair is a good guy, a Hillsdale College graduate, but he’s not effective at anything a vibrant chair needs to be. Because of the fact Pugetopolis, a 3 county area that is our City/State election spoiler, like NYC is to the state of New York and Chicago is to Illinois, we’ve not had a Republican governor for 50 years and during the current GOP’s chairman’s tenure, the last 10 years has seen a dimocRAT supermajority in the state legislature.
GOP Chair Caleb Heimlick came straight out of Hillsdale College and was hired as a political strategist to the former GOP Chairman. See the problem there? No real world experience.
All of the GOP’s misfortunes have caused many in the GOP leadership to be either cowards, victims of the Battered Wife Syndrome or a combination of both. Smart, tough leadership is what the GOP in this state desperately needs. Joe Kent would be the prescription to the road to recovery.