GOP Senate hopefuls once dismissed as ‘fringe’ by elites are now in positions to win.
Republican outsiders written off by their own party leadership and considered easy pickings by Democrats have defied the odds to make their races highly competitive, with some now tipped to win.
Democrats were so confident that some of these candidates labeled “far-right” or “fringe” by the media wouldn’t win that Democrat campaigns and outside groups actually funneled money to them, thinking they’d be easier opponents in a general election than Republican primary hopefuls deemed more moderate or part of the GOP establishment.
Hilary loses to Trump with this exact strategy.
Libs: “Shame there weren’t any lessons to learn here.”
Dems prefer to campaign and fundraise from an underdog position, those people winning is good for their bottom line
Imagine if the plan to beat slavery in the US was to let Slavery be legal in every state, so that anti-slavery politicians would get more funding to win elections… to undo slavery in every state.
What the fuck is the end goal of this exactly
This article implies that the Democrats funded all of the fringe candidates they highlight, but that doesn’t appear to be true. Here’s a Washington Post article that actually lists dollar amounts . The only Senate candidate in this Just the News piece that appears to have received serious Democrat money is Bolduc, the New Hampshire guy. (Not Walker in Georgia, and not Masters in Arizona.) Most of the candidates the Dems funded lost.
The Dems did help fund Mastriano in the Pennsylvania gubernatorial race, though, and he’s one of the most dangerous people running this year.
I haven’t found any info about direct money funneling, but the Democrats did intervene just before the primary vote by reminding everyone that Lake’s opponent had previously donated to Democratic candidates.
Edit - National Review piece highlighting the ad says the Dems didn’t fund Lake, but they add more details and context to that story. Lake was also a former Democrat, but the party didn’t mention that part. https://archive.ph/aZEbt
“Look, listen, haven’t we all decided on occasion that, rather than holding and fighting for objectively good things such as M4A, redacting border security and so on, the best approach is to signal boost right wing lunatics? It worked out for Hillary if you exclude the electoral college and Putinbot interference!”
“And then hey, sometimes we lose to them, it happens; you just need to get over it!”
-Some former bluecheck lib condescending to me about the state of affairs in 10 years when we’re all sentenced to forced labor by President Mecha Hitler
Also, I LOVE that liberal politicians and fundraisers are actually deliberately and openly making things skew waaaaaaaaayyyyy right. Almost like they don’t actually care…
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