Wisconsin Megathread v3: GOP in MASSIVE DISARRAY

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My party’s base makes worse decisions in primaries than a random group of chimpanzees from the zoo would.

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Kelly is an awful candidate who lost by over 10 in 2020 under the backdrop of the Democratic Presidential Primary, and lost by 10 again this year under the backdrop of abortion. Maybe the main problem is that he’s just a horrific candidate.

I would advise against people extrapolating too much from this result for this reason.

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Kelly is an awful candidate who lost by over 10 in 2020 under the backdrop of the Democratic Presidential Primary, and lost by 10 again this year under the backdrop of abortion. Maybe the main problem is that he’s just a horrific candidate.

I would advise against people extrapolating too much from this result for this reason.

Who is the non-awful candidate the GOP is going to nominate in 2024? The guy facing 34 felony counts? Who caused this abortion disaster with his SCOTUS appointments in the first place?

Well yes, as things stand right now Trump probably does similarly to what McCain in 2008 did.

But even then I’m not sure that these legal troubles help Trump in the long term, even in a GOP primary. But that’s a topic for a different story.

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Kelly is an awful candidate who lost by over 10 in 2020 under the backdrop of the Democratic Presidential Primary, and lost by 10 again this year under the backdrop of abortion. Maybe the main problem is that he’s just a horrific candidate.

I would advise against people extrapolating too much from this result for this reason.

If this was an isolated incident, I'd probably agree with you, but it just isn't. Republicans have consistently underperformed in general elections after 2020. This is part of a systemic issue with the GOP.

Because we run candidates who suck at raising money and former losers, yes.

Dorow would have sadly still probably have lost, but in no universe would she have collapsed in WOW or as many deep red counties like Kelly did. She would have atleast tried campaigning. And if she was the nominee, then Knodl would have won comfortably

[THG]

Kelly is an awful candidate who lost by over 10 in 2020 under the backdrop of the Democratic Presidential Primary, and lost by 10 again this year under the backdrop of abortion. Maybe the main problem is that he’s just a horrific candidate.

I would advise against people extrapolating too much from this result for this reason.

If this was an isolated incident, I'd probably agree with you, but it just isn't. Republicans have consistently underperformed in general elections after 2020. This is part of a systemic issue with the GOP.

Because we run candidates who suck at raising money and former losers, yes.

Dorow would have sadly still probably have lost, but in no universe would she have collapsed in WOW or as many deep red counties like Kelly did. She would have atleast tried campaigning. And if she was the nominee, then Knodl would have won comfortably

Knodl was the establishment choice who beat a disaster candidate handily in the primary, fundraised solidly, and ran a competent campaign. He had some extreme right-wing reactionary views but nothing more disqualifying than anything Ron Johnson has ever said. In a high-turnout race like this he should have had no problem at all and his barely skating by is probably the biggest flashing warning sign for the Wisconsin Republicans out of the many we saw last night.

Maybe Kelly losing by double digits also dragged Knodl down? Similarly to how Dixon and Mastriano losing by double digits dragged down multiple congressional candidates?

The disaster candidate would have lost by 6-7.