Who Ran The Worst House of Representatives Campaign in the 2022 Election Cycle?

[Tekken_Guy]

How is Sean Patrick Maloney not on here?

[Tekken_Guy]

I don’t know how JR Majewski didn’t at least get #2 on the GOP side. Close contest with Palin.

Like I said, there were far too many Republicans to choose from. JR Majewski is indeed a very strong Dishonorable Mention and barely missed being on the list, since I was privy to how Bruce Poliquin's carried out his campaign, and his arguments were very weak. Given the fact that Bruce Poliquin did much worse this time than he did in 2018, despite 2022 being a relatively redder year overall, and I felt that he deserved to be on the list. I do think it is debatable and that JR Majewski would be a reasonable replacement over Bruce Poliquin on the top 3 worst Republican campaigns for the House. After all, JR Majewski threw out a very winnable race with his misrepresentation of his military service (which REALLY pissed off the district's veterans), his drunken driving record, and his participation in the January 6th insurrection. The NRCC triaged the race and rightfully left him out to dry to a double digit loss in a district Donald Trump won, which is not something that the NRCC does very often.

I think you’re not giving enough credit to Garcia and Valadao. They won their districts more than the Democrats lost them. They are still beatable in 2024, but I don’t think anyone would’ve beaten them this year. On the flip side, you can’t just say every Republican has run a disastrous campaign against Golden. It’s way more Golden being strong. Poliquin is weak, but again I don’t think any Republican would have beaten Golden.

Gillen was just a victim of the wave. She would’ve won easily if Hochul won the seat by a typical Dem margin.

Campaigns that stand out as terrible to me are Majewski, Bo Hines, Joe Kent. In those races it’s more clear that running a better campaign would have made a difference. On the Democratic side, I think only maybe SPM can be held responsible. Zeldin won his seat easily, but if he wasn’t caught sleeping he would’ve won. Maybe McLeod Skinner in Oregon. Shrader might’ve won, but not clear. It’s just hard to recast yourself and be appealing to swing voters after challenging an incumbent to his left.

David Valadao was certainly not the easiest target to dislodge in California this cycle, but since none of the candidates were raising enough money to start the necessary Hispanic outreach measures in the area by the second quarter of June 2021, I and all of the volunteers who were interested in flipping CA-22 gave up and looked at other promising candidates such as Jay Chen, who seemed to exceed expectations when we were looking at target districts to volunteer in last year. I stand by my statement against Christy Smith. The race would not have been an easy flip even if the activist base had the sense to back an alternative like George Whitesides and Jess Phoenix. However, Christy Smith's freezing of the local candidate field and the activist base's refusal to listen to reason caused us to immediately write this off as a loss, as the situation was clearly beyond repair to our eyes thanks to the traumatizing volunteering experiences of her campaign. As for Laura Gillen, her campaign was pumping out this type of garbage in the mailboxes thanks to the internal disputes of supporting groups that she was unable to mediate. Not only was the message nonsensical and not based on any proof, I actually heard from a contact there that several Long Island Democrats were offended by this, as they do have some pro-gun views.

How is Sean Patrick Maloney not on here?

Blame the complete incompetence of the California Democrats, as the campaigns of those that I referenced were far too horrid to ignore. Sean Patrick Maloney is definitely another Dishonorable Mention, however, as he pissed off at lot of New York Democrats on all levels and bled a lot of voter support in the district that he chose to ran in because of the redistricting musical chair mess that he created.

Maloney was a DCCC chair and five term incumbent. His loss was way more embarrassing than Gillen’s.

[Tekken_Guy]

Laura Gillen's mistakes were far more high profile due to the simmering drama between her, Jacobs, and Keith Corbett's other supporters. I was definitely more aware of how bad her campaign than George Zimmerman's was, though, so I believe that Laura Gillen's campaign was slightly worse.

No Democrat is going to vote for the guy who shot Trayvon Martin.