McConnell's Senate takeover hopes set to suffer yet another blow: report
By: Tom Boggioni (Raw Story - Celebrating Years of Independent Journalism)
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According to a report from the Daily Beast, any hopes that Mitch McConnell might have had of being reinstalled as the Senate Majority Leader will likely be dashed this week as New Hampshire Republicans go to the polls.
At one point the seat held by Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan was considered a strong possibility of a pick-up for Republicans, but the failure to get popular Gov. Chris Sununu (R) to jump in the race, and the rise of yet another conspiracy-minded GOP candidate, has stuck a knife in Republican hopes.
As the Beast's Sam Brodey and Jake Lahut wrote, the likely GOP nominee for the Senate seat will be "Don Bolduc, a bombastic retired general who has embraced the MAGA wing of the party."
According to the report, "Republicans saw Sen. Maggie Hassan, the first-term Democratic incumbent, as an easy target who could pave the way to their recapture of the U.S. Senate majority. So did the press: a March 2021 headline from the Boston Globeblared that Hassan was 'the most vulnerable Senate Democrat up for re-election," but now, "Top Republicans fear a Bolduc win would all but eliminate their chances to win a state they once viewed as ripe for the flipping. Glaringly, his campaign has under $90,000 in the bank heading into the primary. Hassan, who has raised a staggering $26 million in the last two years, is sitting on a $7.3 million warchest."
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) expressed dismay at the events unfolding in the Granite State, telling the Beast that Bolduc is "not our best candidate."
"It would be a shame to nominate somebody who can't win in the general election. I'm afraid that would be the case for the leading candidate right now," he added.
For their part, Democrats agree, with one strategist saying of the GOP's troubles in New Hampshire "This whole thing has been a shitshow."
The strategist added, "They never had Sununu, they had no plan B, no plan C, nobody got in for two months. It was literally just Don Bolduc. In January you had a bunch of people get in, they all ate each other's fundraising and support, and nobody took off."
Republican Gov. Sununu has not been any help, refusing to endorse Bolduc and bluntly telling reporters, "He's not a serious candidate, he's really not, and if he were the GOP nominee I have no doubt we would have a much harder time," before lamenting, "He's kind of a conspiracy theorist-type candidate."
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You know you are dealing with a crackpot when they tie their political opponents to "Chinese communists".
Apparently, the candidates that are selected have consequences.
The party that claims maga is an existential threat to democracy has spent millions of dollars backing and promoting bolduc.
It seems to be working doesnt it?
Sure does. So you support giving money and publicity to people you believe will destroy America or are you just lying about maga being fascists to scare voters?
I guess the question is the Democratic Party who gives Money to him traitors or a liars?
[Deleted] when the democrats start telling people to vote for these weirdos in the general election you will have a point.
i suspect the democrats will be much harder on bolduc if he wins the primary than the republicans in his own party have ever been.
The only thing pathetic, and not comical in any sort of way, are Democrats and their supporters selling this bullshit.
The nation is literally heading into the shitter; and Democrats are trying to get the worst candidates possible they can face by spending millions just so they can keep power. Seems that turning the US into one gigantic Democrat bastion of stupidity is their only goal.
Hope they get some unexpected surprises and lose the Senate. They will deserve every last investigation, and potential impeachment, thrown their way.
Exactly, and anyone that thinks that this is amoral forgets that all's fair in politics and war.
So your argument, to the extent that such a thing exists, is that it is the Democrats fault a conspiracy freak election denier will be nominated for US Senator in New Hampshire, and not the fault of the Republican primary voters who will vote him. Sure.
The idea that the Democrats are responsible for these terrible candidates is bizarre.
The idea that Dems would spend this kind of money and not believe that it will yield real election benefits is bizarre.
Exactly, that's the whole point, help him win the primary to improve Dem chances in the general.
This is just a cynical political strategy, all the better when it kneecaps Repubs who accepted the 2020 election results and better yet, kneecaps some cases voted to impeach Trump. Machiavelli would be pleased to see his lessons being applied this boost the right-wingers, strategy.
This really isn't new although Dems have scaled it up this year. In 2012, SEN McCaskill had a tough reelection campaign and used this strategy by running ads elevating the wacko Todd Akin.