It might not end up mattering – as we saw in Virginia and New Jersey, voters now are more than happy to just saunter into the polling booth and pull the lever for whatever fool happens to have an R by their name if their 48 gallons of milk per month cost too much now – but the Republicans are really botching recruitment thus far. Just to recap their likely candidates:
NH-SEN: Probably Bolduc at this point (crackpot 2020 conspiracy theorist in a Biden+7 state).
PA-SEN: Sean Parnell looks likely (alleged wife and child abuser).
GA-SEN: Herschel Walker almost certainly (lives in Texas, insane, another wife abuser).
NV-SEN: Adam Laxalt almost certainly (another conspiracy theorist in a Biden state, though probably the best of the bunch so far; at least he has held elected office).
OH-SEN (extremely probably not competitive anyway but still): Likely either Josh Mandel or JD Vance.
MO-SEN (not competitive anyway but still): Eric Greitens at least possible (a third candidate who abuses women!)
At this point, really the only remotely competitive race which hasn't been a complete recruitment flop is Arizona with Brnovich, and even then Arizona has a time honored tradition of messy primaries where the candidates trip over themselves racing right.
War on Women II?
