Absent either Adam Laxalt in Nevada, or Blake Masters in Arizona coming back from their current deficits. This year is the Lost Opportunity of Lost Opportunities for the GOP. What really hurts is these were both good candidates, that appeared to be on the path to victory.
However, there may be more than one way going forward:
Not a bad idea. Also convince Sinema to go independent and caucus with the Republicans. She is never going to win a Democrat primary in Arizona, so going independent is inevitable. She will not do this unless Manchin switches first. If the Republicans can get their act together and win the Georgia run off, a very big if, this still may be salavageable.
I tho k it is time to help Herschel Walker in Georgia, and then do a thorough post mortem on this clusterbomb of an election. After that, go forward.
Fetterman is a twit, but Toomey was a turncoat. Good riddance. Santorum said as much about Toomey years ago.
Laxalt has an opportunity to run in 2024 against Rosen.
I agree with your point about Sinema. Her best chance of reelection is becoming an independent and to caucus with the GOP. Masters’ narrow defeat does make him an excellent candidate in 2024, the same as Laxalt in Nevada.
Manchin’s vote for the Inflation Aggravation Act makes him toast in West Virginia.
Now, to move on to some higher hanging fruit…
Stabenow in Michigan has the brainpower of a potato. Her droning on about driving an electric car from Michigan to Washington, DC is a statement to be used against her.
Sherrod Brown from Ohio….Brown is a holdover from the days of Democrat hegemony in Ohio from the 1980s when Tricky Dick Celeste was governor, and Metzenbaum and Glenn were Senators.
Brown’s power base is Northeast Ohio, specifically Cleveland. Northeast Ohio used to carry Ohio into the Democrat column, but that trade union strength is gone. Tim Ryan from Youngstown could not harness it to victory for an open seat.
Now, the wasteland that is Pennsylvania…Bob Casey (Blob Lazy), the fixture from Wilkes-Barre, (as Jim Quinn puts it) becomes aware of his own existence once every six years.
He rode the anti-Bush and anti-Iraq war sentiment into office in 2006. He rode Obumbler’s coattails in 2012. He benefited in 2018 from the Trump-Russia crap.
In 2024, Stabenow, Brown and Casey will be tied to an extremely unpopular Joe Biden and his rotten policies. Maybe Tudor Dixon takes a shot at Stabenow in 2024. Pennsylvania has Dave McCormick, Kathy Barnett and Lou Barletta, any of whom has statewide support and name recognition…without Oz’ baggage.
Beating an entrenched incumbent Senator is always hard, but tying these three brain dead slugs to Bidenflation and putting them on the defensive should mean that one of them, at least, is cleaning out an office in one of the Senate office buildings in two years.
Jon Tester narrowly won reelection in 2016 in Montana. Tammy Baldwin has to run for reelection in Wisconsin.
On the GOP side, Utah needs to dump Romney and end that loser’s political career.
2024 is shaping up to be a great opportunity, even better than 2020 was. We will see what happens.
When votes take this long to get tallied the rational conclusion is fraud. Slow-rolling the counting in an attempt to get the candidate who is currently behind to drop out, then good old fashion vote creation/vote destruction when it becomes clear that that will not work.
If Arizona wants me to believe that their elections are legitimate they can start counting the votes in 24 hours, or at bare minimum start counting election day votes in all precincts by that point.
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Trust?
smdh