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Republicans are struggling to recruit candidates where it matters

The GOP has yet to land a single top recruit to run for the Senate anywhere in the country.

By James Pindell Globe Staff, Updated August 2, 2021, 11:21 a.m.

The surest way that Republicans can stop whatever legislative agenda President Biden has in mind after the 2022 midterm elections is to win a majority in the US Senate.

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On paper, it seems easy enough. Republicans need to win just a single seat in order to flip the 50-50 Senate and possibilities for doing so are all over the map. Given that midterm elections often benefit the party out of power, and Democrats control two out of three levers of the federal government, Republicans wouldn’t be overly optimistic in assuming Mitch McConnell might soon rule the Senate again.

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There are four states with vulnerable Democratic incumbents in the 2022 cycle. These incumbents include Senators Mark Kelly in Arizona, Raphael Warnock in Georgia, Catherine Cortez Masto in Nevada, and Maggie Hassan in New Hampshire. Defeat just one of them, and if everything else stays the same, control of the Senate has shifted.

But here is where we stand in those races. In Arizona, the top Republican recruit is the state’s governor Doug Ducey, but he keeps ruling out a run because he is in open war with Donald Trump over Biden’s victory in the state during the 2020 election, and Trump has vowed to defeat him in a Republican primary. In Georgia, the Republican contest is frozen because Trump keeps pushing his friend, former NFL star Herschel Walker, to run. But last month, news of Walker’s turbulent past emerged, including allegations of domestic violence.

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