MD-GOV 2022: Can Maryland GOP win a third gubernatorial term in 2022?

[GALeftist]

Titanium D flip now lol

[GALeftist]

There is a lot of funny cope from Twitter "RINOs" (read: vote for every single Republican but like having liberal friends) whining about how this is actually Democrats'/Hogan's/whoever else's fault. Let me break it down here:

1. There is no hypocrisy from the Democratic perspective about boosting Cox. He would be a danger to democracy if elected, but he won't be elected, so the point is moot.
2. Hogan, and any other Republican for that matter, needs to deviate from Trump and the national party significantly to win in Maryland. It's just a fact. If that is incompatible with winning a primary, then tough, but there's no other route here short of avoiding the primary altogether.
3. Can we start treating Republican voters like they have agency? They have reasons for voting for the candidates they do, lol. The way people supposedly on their side talk about them is so infantilizing.

[GALeftist]

Maybe Cox deserves credit for winning the primary? Atlas always says the most right-wing candidates are "unelectable" and they consistently beat expectations on this forum. Republican primary voters still love Trump, but the far-leftists on this forum can't understand how somebody can support Trump except for "muh racist" or "muh fascist" or whatever.

Not saying Cox will win the general election, but don't act all shocked when Trumpist candidates win primaries and (some) win general elections.

No one is surprised when Trumpist candidates win Republican -primaries-.  It is much more surprising when Trumpist candidates don’t get the nomination.

But that doesn’t make them “electable”.  The number of Trumpist candidates that have won general elections in swing states is pretty small.  And as far as I can think of, the number of Trumpist candidates that have won in states or districts as blue as MD is zero.

inb4 Mayra Flores

I'm being negatively polarized into caring about that race even though I absolutely hate Gonzalez.