Analysis: The cause of the low-quality candidates? Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) wasn’t subtle: “the support of the former president” — that is, Donald Trump — “proved to be very decisive in these primaries.”
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, McConnell revisited criticism he had made last summer, when a phalanx of Republican Senate candidates were trailing their Democratic opponents in polling.
He added: “We had an opportunity to relearn, one more time you have to have quality candidates to win competitive Senate races.” The cause of the low-quality candidates? McConnell wasn’t subtle: “the support of the former president” — that is, Donald Trump — “proved to be very decisive in these primaries,” and candidates like those in the states he mentioned were the result.
In Arizona, where Blake Masters lost by 5 points, and New Hampshire, where Don Bolduc lost by 9 points, the Republican candidates were taking on Democratic incumbents in states Joe Biden won in 2020. In every place where that combination was in play, the Republican challenger lost.Remember, though, that New Hampshire also voted for Biden by more than 7 points in 2020.
In other words, O’Dea did about the same relative to the 2020 presidential results as Bolduc did. Despite his being “perfect” and Bolduc being an exemplar of the opposite.
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