Senate GOP drops hands-off approach to primaries after stinging midterm defeats

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Senate GOP drops hands-off approach to primaries after stinging midterm defeats
by Samantha-Jo Roth, Congressional Reporter |
February 04, 2023 07:00 AM

Senate Republicans are signaling they’re willing to box out weak GOP candidates in the 2024 primaries following a lackluster 2022 performance that ended with their minority shrinking in the upper chamber.

The shift reflects a widespread sense within the Republican conference that their roster of inexperienced and in some cases controversial candidates were at least partially responsible for the party’s failure to take control of the Senate.

This week, the Senate GOP's campaign arm, under the new leadership of Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), made clear that the committee is more willing to take sides in Republican primaries, a departure from its policy in the 2022 cycle. As soon as former Gov. Mitch Daniels decided on Tuesday not to run for Senate in Indiana to replace retiring Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN), Daines quickly pledged to work with Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), whom he called “one of our top recruits this cycle.”

Daines’s quasi-endorsement of Banks could be clearing the field for Banks. Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN), who was considering an Indiana Senate run, announced Friday that she will retire and not run for office at all in 2024.

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Handpicked by Mitch or we shoot you down.  Nothing new about that!

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The shift reflects a widespread sense within the Republican conference that their roster of inexperienced and in some cases controversial candidates were at least partially responsible for the party’s failure to take control of the Senate.

Did they ever consider that their failure to support those candidates may have played a factor in their defeat?  Maybe if the Republican conference had tossed some money in the direction of Laxalt, Lake, or Bolduc, we would be looking at a Republican majority right now.

This week, the Senate GOP's campaign arm, under the new leadership of Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), made clear that the committee is more willing to take sides in Republican primaries, a departure from its policy in the 2022 cycle.

Great.  They are now going to take what Mitch McConnell did in Alaska and repeat that in every other State.  Instead of giving Adam Laxalt money to defeat his Democrat opponent, they gave Lisa Murkowski money to defeat her Republican opponent.  Idiots.