AP’s absurd spin: ‘Pro-Trump wins in blue states threaten GOP hopes in November’

The mainstream media relentlessly pushes its narrative, no matter how absurd and counterfactual it is. The media would have us believe that watery, compromised, corrupt, me-too RINO Republicans such as Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, and Adam Kinzinger are the candidates who are electable, as opposed to solidly conservative, patriotic candidates. Even as pro-America First candidates win election after election, AP still spins this story on the primary wins for genuine patriots as a net loss for the party. Even if this were true, it would be irrelevant. A Republican Party that is just a pale copy of the Democrat Party has no reason to exist at all. If the Republicans aren’t going to present a genuine alternative, they are betraying their supporters and the nation. Let the Republicans live or die with pro-American candidates rather than with more establishment hacks.

“Pro-Trump wins in blue states threaten GOP hopes in November,” by Susan Haigh, Associated Press, August 20, 2022:

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Republicans have found success in Democratic strongholds like Maryland and Massachusetts when they have fielded moderate candidates who could appeal to voters in both parties. With Democrats facing headwinds this year, Republicans had hoped that strategy could pay off yet again.

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But Republican voters have nominated loyalists of former President Donald Trump in several Democratic states, including Maryland and Connecticut, making the GOP’s odds of winning those general election races even longer. Massachusetts will face its own test next month as GOP voters decide between a Trump-backed conservative and a more moderate Republican for the party’s gubernatorial nominee.

“It can’t continue,” said former Connecticut U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays, a moderate Republican and Trump critic, referring to the GOP choosing pro-Trump candidates. “One of the things that will happen is that a lot of the Trump candidates who won the primary will lose the general election. And there are a lot of unhappy Republicans who hold office now who believe that the Senate now is in jeopardy of staying Democratic.”

Trump’s influence was on full display earlier this month when his last-minute endorsement helped propel Leora Levy, a member of the Republican National Committee who opposes abortion rights, to victory in a Republican U.S. Senate primary in Connecticut over the party’s endorsed candidate, former House Minority Leader Themis Klarides. Klarides supports abortion rights and said she didn’t vote for Trump in 2020.

“Sad day for CT …,” tweeted Brenda Kupchick, the Republican first selectwoman of Fairfield and a former state representative, after the Aug. 9 race was called for Levy. Days earlier, after Trump endorsed Levy on speakerphone at a GOP picnic, Kupchick tweeted, “How is that helpful in the general election in CT?”

Kupchick’s tweets sparked criticism in both GOP camps. Trump supporters accused Klarides of not being a “true conservative.” Moderate Republicans predicted that Levy’s nomination ensured Democratic U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal would sail to victory in November, despite a Quinnipiac poll in May registering his lowest job approval since he took office in 2011.

The last Republican to represent Connecticut in the U.S. Senate was Lowell P. Weicker Jr., who served from 1971 to 1989, though Connecticut has elected a moderate Republican governor as recently as 2006, with M. Jodi Rell….

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