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kpete

(71,979 posts)
Wed Dec 7, 2022, 07:53 PM Dec 2022

Boo fucking hoo! 🎶You built this!🎶🖕

On the other end of the spectrum, commentator Erick Erickson pitched a markedly different theory. “Donald Trump picks the weakest candidates, and those tied to Trump lose in places that matter,” he wrote in a postmortem column Wednesday, while Senator John Thune called Trump an “albatross and a real liability,” according to HuffPost reporter Arthur Delaney.

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When all is said and done, Walker’s loss to Warnock will likely work out to a couple of percentage points––a margin that suggests a more generic, less scandal-scarred Republican might have won the race, just as Minority Leader Mitch McConnell predicted in April. “How could [Republicans] screw this up? It’s actually possible,” he said of the party’s midterm hopes at the time. And now, after witnessing a wave of less-than-stellar performances by the GOP’s inexperienced primary nominees, McConnell’s concerns about poor “candidate quality” appear to have been right on the money.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/12/republicans-blame-herschel-walker-loss



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https://www.latestly.com/socially/business/trumps-obsession-with-the-2020-election-became-an-albatross-and-a-real-liability-for-latest-tweet-by-bloomberg-4557886.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-07/republican-blasts-trump-as-albatross-for-gop-candidates-after-georgia-loss
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Boo fucking hoo! 🎶You built this!🎶🖕 (Original Post) kpete Dec 2022 OP
Surely they jest. I mean, NOBODY noticed that Trump's OWN political "inexperience" Rocknation Dec 2022 #1

Rocknation

(44,573 posts)
1. Surely they jest. I mean, NOBODY noticed that Trump's OWN political "inexperience"
Wed Dec 7, 2022, 09:11 PM
Dec 2022

cost him two popular votes in a row, and the second one by a margin TWICE as wide?


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