“Flawed Republican Candidates” Are “Putting Republicans’ U.S. Senate Hopes At Risk”

The bad press continues to pile up for the clown car of “flawed Republican candidates” running for Senate, who are embracing “fringe and divisive” positions that are “unlikely to resonate with the crucial voters who swing between both major parties in elections.”

See for yourself:

MSNBC (WATCH): Flawed Republican Candidates Help Democrats Effort To Hold Onto Senate Control

• Consider these Republican candidates here for a moment.

• Herschel Walker in Georgia – bizarre, bizarre comments about everything from air pollution… among other scandals and his inability to debate Raphael Warnock.

• JD Vance saw backlash over comments he made on divorce, suggesting that people should stay in unhappy marriages even if those marriages are violent.

• And then in Arizona, Blake Masters last month had to defend comments he made in which he blamed the gun violence in this country on, “Black people, frankly.”

Reuters: Fringe candidates putting Republicans’ U.S. Senate hopes at risk
By James Oliphant
July 29, 2022

• Republican voters’ embrace of fringe and divisive candidates is jeopardizing the party’s goal of taking control of the U.S. Senate in November’s midterm elections.

• Far-right candidates who have echoed former President Donald Trump’s spurious stolen-election claims could win primaries in Arizona… on Tuesday, likely boosting the odds of Democratic victories.

• Republican nominees in competitive races in Georgia, Ohio and Pennsylvania are first-time candidates who have raised far less than their Democratic opponents and have struggled to broaden their appeal beyond Trump’s fervent, but narrow, base of support.

• Democrats, meantime, have become more energized in recent months by the Supreme Court decision overturning the Roe v. Wade ruling that recognized women’s constitutional right to abortion and the ongoing hearings on the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.

• Democratic Senator Mark Kelly has amassed a large war chest while Republicans have engaged in a bitter primary.

• Masters… has echoed Trump’s election-fraud claims and earlier this month cast doubt on the legitimacy of this year’s midterm elections.

• Talk of election fraud is unlikely to resonate with the crucial voters who swing between both major parties in elections.

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