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Tartarus Sauce
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« on: March 14, 2018, 01:25:01 AM »


Has anyone yet thought that the GOP might not be so forgiving of Saccone's giant fumble of a perfectly winnable race in which he held almost all advantages just a few months ago? Then he fumbled it with the fault being nearly all his own. I don't know guys, I think he could very well lose the nomination.

Saccone’s weaknesses are overstated. Conor Lamb won because of Trump. Period. Yeah, Lamb was a superior candidate, but Saccone wasn’t exactly a Roy Moore. In fact I would argue he was better than Karen Handel in terms of his perceived weaknesses. It was just that Ossoff was a lousy candidate who ran on sheer #RESIST energy

And still managed to lose by only 3.5 percent. It baffles me why some think GA 6 suddenly became a safe R seat after Ossoff's loss. If Ossoff lost a seat formerly held by Gingrich and won by Price by well over 20% margins by that little with all his aforementioned flaws, it's quite clearly no longer an even remotely safe Republican seat anymore.
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Tartarus Sauce
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« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2018, 04:00:46 PM »


"Basically a tie" in what would normally be a safe R seat is ok to them?

The interesting thing is, lying to themselves doesn't put an end to the electoral bloodbath waiting later this year. At best, it's just their public face and they understand the implications privately. At worst, they are actively deluding themselves, thus potentially hindering their ability to do things that could help blunt the impact of a backlash in November.

Personally, I don't think there is much they can do at this point, but if there was anything, stuffing Trump away in the west wing, taking his phone away and basically making him a ghost would probably help somewhat. Most of the GOP's problems right now are of Trump's own making. The man is a walking scandal. If it isn't something from his past, it's something new coming from his mouth and/or twitter account.

^This

Trump's need to constantly view himself as popular handicaps the ability of Republicans to actually engage in course correction. Trump will refuse to believe that the party's problem's stem from his actions.
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