The Other No Good, Very Bad Stories About GOP Senate Candidates

It’s not just Georgia. The last 24 hours have brought a wave of negative stories for GOP Senate candidates across the country:

• (AZ) New York Times: The Strident Writings of a Young Blake Masters Dog His Senate Run. “The Arizona candidate, now 35, chose a CrossFit chat room to express his opposition to U.S. involvement in World War II and downplay Al Qaeda as a threat to Americans.”

• (PA) POLITICO: Where in the world is Dr. Oz?“Mehmet Oz is trailing in polls. A key Republican has yet to endorse him since the celebrity doctor won the GOP nomination for Pennsylvania Senate more than a month ago. And Oz has gone dark on the airwaves since May 21 — even as his Democratic rival John Fetterman burnishes his brand on TV as a political outsider, and paints Oz as a carpetbagger from New Jersey. This is not the general election kickoff in a pivotal Senate race that Republicans were hoping for.

• (OH) Vice News: JD Vance Compared Abortion to Slavery. “JD Vance compared abortion to slavery in an interview last fall, drawing a controversial parralel between America’s original sin and a procedure that until recently was a constitutional right.”

The harsh headlines come after The New York Times reported that “Republicans are assembling what one top strategist laughingly described as an ‘island of misfit toys’ – a motley collection of candidates the Democratic Party hopes to portray as out of the mainstream on policy, personally compromised and too cozy with Donald Trump.”

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