It was only 5%, which is a 2.5% swing, and that after being wildly outspent because Mitch pulled funds.
Masters actually did better than would normally be expected, even if the vote was on the up and up.
Michael Bloomberg showed that money only goes so far.
While I won't says Masters was a "bad" candidate, his campaign wasn't that great.
It seems to start out with positions that were easily framed as extreme. He started backpeddling on some them and that wasn't lost to his opposition.
Many GOP candidates won.
Lake (if she winds up losing)....but barely lost.
Masters got hammered, by comparison.
I only bring this up because I have to wonder who is thinking about going against Sinema in 2024 and what they are doing to prep themselves to have a good shot at unseating her. I like Sinema, but I would prefer a solid conservative (and, of course, that is always a broad reaching term) in there instead.
Sinema barely won.....again, against a not-so-great candidate.
I think a good Republican candidate easily wins. But that candidate needs to be prepping now and the GOP needs to be learning from it's past mistakes in order to win.
Sinema is an incumbent which means she has some built in vitality. It will be interesting to see if her party goes after her and how she plans to run again in 2024. Either way, if we just show up with someone (which is how I see Masters coming onto the scene) it's not going to end well......again.