Edwards probably wins the run-off if he can't avoid it, but it definitely seems like there's some truth to the idea that Democrats like moderate Republicans a lot more than Republicans like moderate Democrats.
Outside of the south this still wouldn't be much of a problem with a governor as popular and well suited to his state as JBE. Southern whites are mentally unhinged, there's no getting around it.
JBE isn’t even a moderate though.
Yeah, like Donnelly and Heitkamp he is a fake moderate.
He is to the right of Joe Manchin
