Republican losers look to run again in '24 -- and the party's at odds how to stop them

[RandySF]

House and Senate Republicans widely acknowledge that bad candidates cost them seats in the 2022 election. They just don’t agree on what to do about it in 2024.

After a midterm cycle that saw underfunded and deeply conservative nominees blow winnable races across the country, the new regime at the National Republican Senatorial Committee is reversing its policy of neutrality and will now selectively intervene to pick winners in open GOP primaries. But in the House, where Republicans are protecting a paper-thin majority, the campaign committee will remain largely hands-off.

The split over strategy comes at a critical juncture for the GOP: Some of the party’s most controversial losers from 2022 are launching campaigns or considering running in 2024. That includes Blake Masters and Kari Lake in Arizona, J.R. Majewski in Ohio and Joe Kent in Washington.

The crop of failed candidates mulling comebacks is causing headaches for party operatives who are desperate to address one of the big problems that plagued them last fall.



https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/17/midterm-losers-gop-primaries-00083137

[Meadowoak]

1. .

[BlueTsunami2018]

2. That's who their voters want and it's their own fault.

They’re the ones who encouraged this far right craziness. They’re the one who refuse to moderate and put their platform more in line with the American mainstream. They created this monster and now they can’t control it. Those whackadoos represent the base of the party and there’s nothing the party operatives can do about it. The looney toons will win the primaries and lose in the generals.

Play with fire and you will get burned.

[Chainfire]

3. Those Whackadoos ARE the Republican Party

Moderate, reasonable Republicans are the outliers.

[RainCaster]

4. I like this!

I see nothing wrong with this. They spent decades courting the craziest of the conservative world.

It's like the dog who caught the car- what's he to do?

[tanyev]

5. That's what happens when losing an election is way more profitable than real work.

[NowISeetheLight]

6. Get the Popcorn

I'm happy to see nutcase extremists like Kari Lake and friends try again.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. They shit their bed

Let 'em sleep in it.