Dems had a strong well-funded candidate here in a D+9 Democratic wave year and he still got thumped. Unless you think 2020 is going to be a megagigatsunami, why in the world would this district be the slightest bit competitive? It's barely even trending D.
Losing by 6.3% when the race only came on the national party's radar pretty late in the game doesn't =/= getting thumped. Getting thumped means losing by more than 8%, at least imo.
6 points is not a landslide but it is not particularly close either. And I remember Clarke Tucker being hyped up from the very beginning of 2018.
Sure, but no one really invested resources in this race until too late in the game for it to matter.
