A wave of new reports is highlighting how Senate Republicans are “elevating untested candidates who might not be prepared for the scrutiny” and are “feeling the heat” as news stories detail lies about their biographies, vulnerabilities stemming from their finances, a lack of connection to the states they are running in, unvetted policy positions, and other issues of “candidate quality.”
See for yourself:
AP: Money isn’t enough to smooth the path for Republican candidates hoping to retake the Senate
By Thomas Beaumont and Brian Slodysko
May 6, 2024
Roll Call: Republicans banking on the road less traveled to Senate majority
By Nathan Gonzales
May 1, 2024
MSNBC: In Senate races, GOP haunted anew with ‘candidate quality’ issues
By Steve Benen
April 30, 2024
The Rachel Maddow Show
April 29, 2024
Rachel Maddow: In Wisconsin, Republicans are running a Selina Meyer understudy, who is from California, whose bank is being sued for elder abuse, and who says don’t let people in nursing homes vote. And Pennsylvania Republicans are running a guy who lives in Connecticut who grew up in a literal president’s mansion and says it was a family farm where he was so poor.
See also: National Journal: If You Can’t Take the Heat; Washington Post: Could Republicans blow it with bad candidates — again?; HuffPost: Senate Republicans Have Rich People Problems; Axios: Democrats attack Senate GOP’s wealthy “carpetbagger” candidates; DSCC: What They’re Saying: Senate Republicans “Extreme Candidates Have Cost The GOP Before …and There’s Reason To Believe It Could Happen Again.”
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