Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) had a simple explanation for why Republicans didn’t do better in U.S. Senate races, Ben Smith reports.
And it wasn’t about the party being too conservative.
Said Barbour: “We had some shitty candidates. We pissed away two seats.”


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