Opinion from Phil Boas: 'Elections have consequences.' Will someone please tell the Arizona GOP? Because they clearly haven't gotten the message.
elected as party chair Jeff DeWit
Party leaders have enabled Kari Lake to bark at the moon and insist the governor’s election was rigged, even as she diminishes the party’s own brand and raises questions about her sanity.It doesn’t take much to understand the party’s essential problem. It suffers from terrible leadership. Following Trump’s lead, the Arizona Party promoted candidates too extreme for the general electorate.
In 2015, Andrew B. Hall, now a Stanford political scientist, studied what happens when Republicans and Democrats elect extremists to represent their parties in general elections.of their party’s general-election vote-share.Of greater concern for Arizona Republicans is that when either party does this they create an echo effect that can last for years, in which the opposing party takes control of an elected seat for cycles to come.
Thus is the power of incumbency that Kelli Ward and company at Arizona GOP handed over to Mark Kelly, Katie Hobbs, Adrian Fontes and Kris Mayes.The upshot is that the conservative revolution will take place in Florida under the better and more strategic leadership of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. DeSantis steered clear of Trump’s strange galaxy of stolen elections. He has all but cut his ties to Mar-a-Lago.
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