“Look, if people thought they were voting for me, my brother would be up by 30 points. Come on.”

— Former New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R), quoted by CNN, on voters confusing him with his brother, who is running for U.S. Senate.

Jonathan Cohn: “Republicans keep saying their campaign against Abdul El-Sayed isn’t trying to exploit fear and hatred of Muslims.”

“Then they keep doing things to prove that it is.”

“They’ve been at it for months—literally since the first hours after El-Sayed won the Democratic nomination in early August, when the GOP launched ads referring to him by his full first name, ‘Abdulrahman.’ But they may have hit a new low last week, with an attack ad that’s all over the internet and television. Its central claim is that El-Sayed wants to impose sharia law, the religious code of Islam, on the rest of America.”

“Vivek Ramswamy has disgraced himself. Ramaswamy started with soaring rhetoric, post-partisan, data-dependent, technology entrepreneur, here to bring good government to the American people. But like the pigs at the end of Animal Farm: they despised the two-legged farmers, by the last chapter they’re living in the house, up on their hind legs, little vests on, pocket watches. They became exactly what they abhorred. That’s what happened here.”

— Anthony Scaramucci, quoted by The Hill.