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Mitch McConnell’s Nightmare Scenario

April 25, 2022 at 11:49 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The Atlantic: “On paper, Republicans have a prime opportunity to recapture the Senate majority this fall. They need to pick up just a single seat to break the current 50–50 tie, and the political environment is tilting heavily in their favor. President Joe Biden’s approval rating is mired in the low 40s, inflation is rampant, and the Democratic majority rests on a trio of vulnerable incumbents in states—Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada—that the president carried by fewer than 60,000 votes combined in 2020.”

“Yet the GOP may be stuck with candidates whose pockmarked, and in a few cases, scandal-filled, résumés could render them unelectable—or at least they would have in an earlier era.”

As Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) recently mused: “How could you screw this up? It’s actually possible. And we’ve had some experience with that in the past.”

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