Some Republicans are growing worried that two key Senate races once considered critical to holding their majority are slipping from their grasp.
In more than a dozen interviews with campaign officials, senators and operatives, there is recognition that North Carolina and Georgia are looking less competitive than the party once anticipated and that decisions need to be made soon about whether to keep investing, even as party officials insist they are not walking away from their candidates there.
Republican senators like North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, said it was time for the party to make some tough decisions about spending.
Georgia is a (decreasingly) Republican state, but not a MAGA state. The governor, who prominently refused to go along with Trump’s 2020 election lies, got primaried by a Trump-nut, who lost like 3-1. The GOP candidate for Senate is one of the Trumpiest politicians in Georgia (now that MTG jumped ship). I’d really like to think this could be one of the last battles in the GOP civil war., but going all-in on Trump in Georgia was definitely a bad plan, even before the leopard started eating their faces.
Not to mention, the Democratic candidate is the incumbent! Georgia is a supposedly “red state” but both Senators are blue (which basically saved the entire Senate in 2020 – y’all’re welcome).
Thank you! I remember watching the election results come in for Georgia in 2020. Very grateful for the work of Stacey Abrams and for Georgia going blue.
I get that, but we really need to declare the Republican Party to be as dead as the Whigs. Republicans were just the larval stage before they morphed into their final form: MAGA. I’m not giving them the gift of deniability. They’re all MAGAs now, and they’ll all face the same reckoning.
The governor that self-certified his own election and then illegally destroyed the ballots even though the courts told him he couldn’t? But for some reason he’s in office and not prison?
That’s the one. He’s not MAGA, but he’s still Republican.
Fun history of Georgia: as recently as 1998, Georgia elected a Democratic governor, and Democrats regularly won state-wide offices. In the wake of the 2000 fiasco, when everyone suddenly went to electronic ballots, Georgia chose a system with no paper trail, and no Democrat won a state-wide race for nearly 2 decades. Then, in 2020, they changed voting systems to one that includes a paper trail, and Democrats immediately won both Senate seats. The Republicans have never won a Georgia Senate race that included paper records.
Yes, the person who has no sense of basic ethics.
His ethics aside, what the fuck are the courts doing?
Sorry, in which context?
In the context of him blatantly rigging an election and destroying the evidence in defiance of a court order? How did nothing come of that?
But what does that have to do with this article?
Lemmy is a threaded conversation platform. The thread we have been participating in started here.
Yeah still no clue why you’re talking about the courts right now