Our Young GunsIt is tough to find younger candidates who embody the right philosophy, who have the ability to win a hard campaign, and who will excel for their constituents and country when they reach office.
By Theodore Roosevelt Malloch
July 7, 2022
It is a maxim of business and sports that you are “only as good as your bench.”
That means you’d better have younger, talented people coming up the ranks who can jump in and take over when the time comes. Without them, you will lose or fail to perform. It is that simple. Many a team and company, in my experience, has put all their eggs in one basket, so to speak, only to find that they get injured, lose it, are traded away, or just don’t live up to high expectations. I could give you hundreds of examples. The landscape is littered with also-rans.
This is even more true in the hypercompetitive blood sport of politics.
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Where are the young, patriotic candidates in 2022? The National Republican Congressional Committee announced that 32 candidates in 24 House districts have qualified for the first tier of its “Young Guns” recruitment and support program. The list includes more than a dozen candidates who ran and lost in 2020 and two former members, Maine’s Bruce Poliquin and Montana’s Ryan Zinke, who are attempting comebacks.
“Recruitment is very strong across the board for Republicans, and this number of candidates this early, signals that,” NRCC spokesman Michael McAdams said.
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Republicans are largely on offense this election cycle as they attempt to capitalize on historical midterm trends and advantages in the redistricting process to win back the House of Representatives. They only need five seats to do that but with a Red Wave coming, they could take 50 to 75 seats in a midterm rout and realignment based on the failure of the Biden presidency and the out-of-touch leftward-bound Democratic Party on every policy front. We hear that a full 85 percent of all Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction. Something has to change.
As an illustration, let’s look at a handful of these races and candidates as possibilities for what is coming.
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Source:
https://amgreatness.com/2022/07/07/our-young-guns/
