What They’re Saying: “Republicans Are Struggling To Recruit The Best” Candidates After Yet Another “Significant Recruiting Setback”

A wave of news coverage is highlighting how Senate Republicans “are struggling to recruit the best” candidates – “part of a larger pattern” that is ​​”extinguishing Republicans’ hopes” in battleground Senate races.

See for yourself:

MSNBC: “Candidates matter, and right now, Republicans are struggling to recruit the best ones.”

• “The fact that Republican officials gave Hogan the hard sell, practically begging him to run, only to be rebuffed, is part of a larger pattern.”
  
  
• “Republican leaders asked Gov. Phil Scott to run in Vermont, and he said no. Republican leaders asked Gov. Chris Sununu to run in New Hampshire, and he said no. Republican leaders asked Gov. Doug Ducey to run in Arizona, and at least for now, he said no. Republican leaders asked Hogan to run in Maryland, and now he’s also said no.”

AP: “Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced Tuesday that he will not run for the U.S. Senate, rebuffing an aggressive recruitment push from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans.”

• “The governor’s decision… marks a second significant recruiting setback in the Republican Party’s broader fight to seize the Senate majority.”

POLITICO: “[Hogan] delivers another blow to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ’s efforts to recruit multiple Republican governors to run for Senate in 2022, including New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu.”

NYPost: “Hogan announced Tuesday he will not run for the Senate in November, spurning an aggressive recruitment campaign by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.”

Washington Post: “Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has ruled out running for Senate in 2022, extinguishing Republicans’ hopes.”

Fox News: “Reacting to the news, the rival Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee charged that ‘Senate Republicans are suffering a series of humiliating recruitment failures because their potential candidates know they cannot defeat strong Senate Democrats.’”

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