Serious own-goal if this holds in the primary. Tony Evers has a 100% chance of winning the general if he makes it. The others lack that level of certainty.
It seems like whenever Democrats nominate a woman, it’s an own-goal, but it’s not the case when Dems nominate flawed male candidates like Scott Wallace.
In some cases, there is an objectively strongest candidate in the Democratic field. In Wisconsin, it happened to be Tony Evers. In Minnesota, it is Tim Walz. It is not always going to be a male candidate who is the strongest, but it is the case in both MN-Gov and WI-Gov.
But people only vocally complain when the female candidate wins. There were countless threads about Kara Eastman being a worse candidate than Ashford, but not a hint of disappointment when Scott Wallace, a carpetbagging BDS donor from South Africa spent $2 million of his own money and beat out a local Navy veteran for the Democratic endorsement in PA-01, even though she would’ve had a much easier time beating Fitzpatrick.
