OPINION | Should Republicans fail to take back the Senate, will that finally cause whoever is in charge of the Republican Party to finally reject Trumpism? Or will the Trump Train continue whistling past the GOP’s graveyard?
No dice, says The Senate Leadership Fund, a McConnell-allied Super PAC that canceled about...don’t blame McConnell or the establishment for acknowledging the problem; this conflict is coming to a head because the voters are rejecting weird or extreme Republican candidates.I’m with Mitch on this one. It was only thanks to Thiel’s money and Trump’s endorsement that allowed Masters to win the Republican nomination . Now, having elevated Masters, Thiel wantsTo be sure, McConnell’s no angel.
The point, though, is that we are witnessing a pseudo-internecine civil war in the Republican Party—at a time when a normal party would be cruising to a fairly standard midterm victory for an opposition party. But don’t blame McConnell or the establishment for acknowledging the problem; this conflict is coming to a head because theTake this week’s special election in Alaska to fill the state’s at-large House seat, which was vacated by the death of long-time GOP Rep. Don Young.
Sarah Palin lost the race to Mary Peltola, a former judge who will be the first Democrat to hold the seat in a half-century., it would be a mistake to over-interpret the significance of a Democrat winning in this red state. Republican candidates did garner 60 percent of the vote, and another election will be held in just two months to determine who holds the seat in the next Congress.
To be sure, Palin has a lot of baggage. But when you consider the parade of fringe candidates representing the GOP on the ballot this November it’s not hard to imagine that candidate quality could cost Republicans more than a House seat in Alaska. The GOP’s problems almost universally stem from a party that has not only tolerated Donald Trump and his MAGA minions, but has largely embraced them. And now, the chickens are coming home to roost.
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