Republicans back losers, then act surprised when they lose
Zachary Faria
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Republican primary voters and GOP state parties keep nominating losers, and then everyone wonders why Republicans manage to lose.
This played out once again in Wisconsin, where conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court nominee Daniel Kelly lost to liberal Janet Protasiewicz. Most coverage of this race has focused on abortion, which is understandable, and yet considerably less coverage has been devoted to the fact that Kelly had already lost a Wisconsin Supreme Court race in 2020. In fact, Kelly’s margin in his most recent loss (11 percentage points) is almost identical to his 2020 loss (10.5 points).
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So the best Republicans in Wisconsin could do to try and keep the state Supreme Court from becoming a 4-3 liberal majority was to nominate a 2020 retread loser. Maybe this race was doomed from the beginning because Wisconsin just loves abortion, but Wisconsin Republicans didn’t exactly give themselves the best opportunity to find out.
Speaking of 2020 retread losers, former President Donald Trump gloated about Kelly’s loss and Wisconsin’s Supreme Court becoming majority-liberal. According to Trump, Kelly’s failure to seek his endorsement “guaranteed his loss.”
“How foolish is a man that doesn’t seek an Endorsement that would have won him the Election?” the ex-president wrote on Truth Social.
How foolish is a party that nominates a man for president who is willing to let liberals win elections because of his own ego?
Trump could have sucked up his pride to give Kelly his magic election-winning endorsement and then take the credit for Wisconsin’s Supreme Court holding a conservative majority. But Trump loves losing recently, and many Republicans love losing enough that they want to nominate him for president again.
The loser retreads for the GOP are everywhere. Kari Lake and Blake Masters are being discussed as candidates in Arizona after their embarrassing losses. The Michigan GOP chose its loser from the secretary of state race to lead the party after getting wrecked in a blue wave. Joe Kent lost a House Seat rated R+11 after Republican primary voters helped him oust an incumbent Republican. He’s running again in 2024.
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This is the trend that is going to lead to Republicans underperforming in election after election. It starts with Trump, the loser who lost to President Joe Biden in 2020, and it bleeds through to losers in congressional and state races such as Kelly.
Evidently, GOP voters really did get tired of winning, just as Trump once predicted. Every 2022 or 2020 retread running who lost a winnable race is another loss waiting to happen. Republican primary voters keep supporting losers, and no one should be surprised when those losers lose.