What I saw was that they tied the candidates to Trump. Here in West Michigan, they ran ads about John Gibbs that showed him with Trump, and then said he's for abortion bans. So basically, things that would make him appealing to Republican voters, but not appealing to Dems.

It basically defined Gibbs before he got a chance to pretend he wasn't an extremist in the main election.

It was a brilliant strategy, not only did you help the weakest candidates win the primary, but you ran ads that helped your candidate win the general. And it just shows how warped Republican values are.

The criticism wasn't based on ads praising them, because those ads didn't. it was just that we didn't want to give these crazies a chance to get into office should something weird happen.

My district was Gibbs vs Hillary Scholten. She routed him by 13 points. But this is a fairly even district, it was redrawn from R+9 to D+3, but I think that Peter Meijer if he won the primary would have been really tough for Scholten to beat. Mejier is from a very respected family in West Michigan, he's a vet, a moderate, and he voted to impeach Trump.

I think at the state level, Tudor Dixon was definitely the GOP candidate that Dems most wanted to run against too. One of the more moderate candidates Dixon beat in the primaries would have done much better than the extreme Dixon. Whitmer was always going to win though, she's been great and the state loves her.