Republicans spent Wednesday in a perpetual state of high-fiving after coal baron and convicted criminal Don Blankenship lost his bid for the party’s U.S. Senate nomination in West Virginia. The party, according to President Trump, had nominated candidates “who have a great chance of winning in November.” Turnout, according to Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), was way up in key states. Democrats, according to Congressional Leadership Fund President Corry Bliss, were in disarray. A poll from CNN was the cherry on top of the whipped cream: “Democrats’ 2018 advantage is nearly gone.”
What does all of this spin have in common? Like Blankenship’s chances of victory, it’s overrated and overdetermined. CONT.
David Weigel, Washington Post