Posted on 03/19/2023 10:43:43 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — As the Republican Party gears up for the 2024 presidential race, there’s a large image in the rearview mirror that refuses to go away: The 2020 presidential election.
About a week ago, the Colorado GOP selected a 2020 election denier to lead the party for the next two years. That came weeks after the Michigan Republicans selected a 2020 denier to lead their party as well.
When a party loses a presidential election, typically it sorts through the wreckage and figures out how to move forward. The GOP, however, has not done this following the aftermath of the 2020 election. A new paper authored by two academics from Stanford University has found that this has had consequences. The paper argues refusal to move on has real impacts on the party in two important ways. First, the attitude makes Republicans more likely to nominate election deniers in primaries. And two, if and when those election-denier candidates get their nominations, they are likely to face additional challenges in general elections.
The paper specifically compared the 2022 primary and general election results for statewide Republican candidates who were and who were not election deniers, finding some concrete effects.
The paper found that Republicans who were election deniers received, on average, a bump of about 2 points in primaries compared to the non-election-denying Republicans, meaning they were more likely to win the nomination. But when the general election came along, election-denying Republicans performed 2.3 points worse, on average, than Republicans who say who held, correctly, that President Joe Biden won the presidency in 2020.
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Of course MAGA candidates didn’t do well in the 2022 MidTerms. The same methods of cheating against Trump in 2020 were still in place with cheat-by-mail-in ballots with no signature checks, drop boxes, and Dominion. Just look what they did to Kari Lake! Robbery in broad daylight.
Fraud-deniers exists in both parties and they gang up to lynch the candidates that dare to speak the truth
Dante Chinni sounds like one of those Clintoon supporters who was sitting in the Javits Center on the night of 9 November 2016 waiting for a skydiving Hillary to come crashing down through the glass ceiling while trying to make a point. Fortunately for Dante and Hillary, it didn’t work out and they even had to cancel the Souza extravaganza and fireworks show.
Proving, only, that the GOPe is nothing more than the ‘right’ wing of the UniParty.
BTW olde, that epithet in #25 not directed at you. You keep on doing what you do. You and Conservative98 bringing it home in OP (original posting).
“Or maybe a candidate that is acceptable to the the GOPE and the likes of Jeb, John Bolton, etc. like DeSantis.”
Sounds like you haven’t yet heard what DeSantis said regarding Ukraine - no way in hell they can support him in November, if he makes it there - since that would mean their DREAM of dismembering Russia would end.
Yes, engineered "elections" tend to do that.
When you can manipulate the outcome, you manipulate it so that Dante Chinni (D-NBC) can write stories about it afterwards.
Herschel Walker - "poor quality candidate".
John Fetterman - "top-notch quality candidate".
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