Opinion: During the Republican primary season, Democrats took a big risk: They spent money on ads for Trumpist, election-denying candidates to try to nominate more extreme — and potentially more beatable — opponents. Unfortunately, it seems to have worked.
. Democrats rewarded Meijer’s courage by dumping hundreds of thousands of dollars into ads boosting an election-denying rival named John Gibbs — more money than the Gibbs campaign spent itself.There were also some non-financial shenanigans. In Arizona, former television anchor Kari Lake, who lit up the Republican debate by insisting that she would not have certified Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, defeated more moderate rival Karrin Taylor Robson, after Democrats sent out an email thanking Robson for.
In fairness, it’s not all that likely that Republicans would have carried deep-blue Illinois or Maryland, no matter who the candidate was. But Pennsylvania’s governorship was potentially winnable — and “” Doug Mastriano lost it by a wide margin. Bolduc and Burns have gone down to defeat in New Hampshire. And Hillary Scholten successfully defeated Gibbs to flip Meijer’s seat to the Democrats.
The first is that the cynicism will stop being a political tool, a necessary concession to human realities, and start being the primary modus operandi of campaigns that no longer have any real principles except “Give me power.” But the second is that pure cynicism will, ironically, not be quite cynical enough.
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