Democratic midterm meddling in Republican primaries worked, but not perfectly Analysis by DavidMarkDC:
A recurring storyline through the primary season was the Democratic Party’s practice of meddling in GOP primaries in the hopes of producing unelectable nominees. And the tactic paid off. In five races where Democrats were successful in boosting hard-right candidates to the GOP nomination, the Republican candidate lost. That after struggling to raise money and being forced to explain past controversial statements.
The Illinois governor race early in the 2022 cycle wasn't expected to be particularly close. Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker sought a second term, and Illinois is a strongly Democratic state, with President Joe Biden having beaten former President Donald Trump there, 57% to 41%. Bailey won the Illinois gubernatorial nomination with 55.2% of the vote. But that proved the high point of his campaign. Gov. Pritzker and Democrats attacked Bailey in the fall over his conservative stands. And the downstate Republican’s comments about Chicago — he’d referred to the state’s largest city as a “hellhole” — didn’t exactly help in the main population base of Illinois.
The ad called Cox “Trump’s hand-picked candidate” and stated that Cox would “protect the 2nd Amendment at all costs.” The idea was to energize Republican primary voters who agreed with Cox’s stances, even though they did not align with the views of Maryland’s general electorate. Maryland is one of the nation’s most Democratic states, having supported Biden over Trump in 2020 65% to 32%.
Shapiro’s campaign dropped $840,000 on TV ads highlighting Mastriano’s — more than double what the GOP candidate spent on his own ad buys. Shapiro’s ads called Mastriano one of “Trump’s strongest supporters” and highlighted his belief that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Ahead of the Aug. 2 GOP primary, House Democrats’ campaign arm, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, paid for and released a TV ad putatively touting Gibbs. But only enough to get him through the GOP primary against Meijer, one of ten House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump over the events of the Jan. 6. The ad also aimed to soften Gibbs up to a more centrist general election audience.
"Having more women in the workplace does not benefit men, it only strains them. In the post-feminist workplace, men must bend over backward to make sure that they do not inadvertently offend any woman who might happen to hear a joke or comment uttered in humor and harmlessness," Gibbs wrote.
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