Thread by @YossiGestetner

.@RRHElections Indeed, candidate quality matters:

The machine's Martha McSally who lost #AZSen by 2.4% in 2018, lost it again by 2.4% in a year that Trump lost the state by only 0.3%.

@KariLake this year is down only 0.6 there and the AG candidate broke even.

cc @EWErickson

https://twitter.com/seantrende/status/1594858718658707458

.@SeanTrende Besides, many Republicans/Cons who whine about Trump Candidates, made it fashionable or even a call of patriotism for Republicans/Cons to oppose Trump/his candidates, and when they lose (often by fractions), the saboteurs are like all "see? We told you." cc @brithume

Hey @SeanTrende @RRHElections @EWErickson @brithume: I am not sure how candidates of such low quality that they fail in high turnout GOP primaries, would suddenly win the general. The first test is to win the primary, and candidates need many of these "crazies" for the general.

In the #PAGov primary, 1.3 MILLION Republicans turned out to vote and the two main Trumpsrs won a joint 64% of the vote.

If the machine wants to degrade them as the crazies who turn out in primaries and to paint them as zombies who can't decide for whom to vote, have at it.

The people whose McCain lost NV by 12.6 points and whose @MittRomney lost it by 6.7, are lecturing Trump (who lost the state by 2.4) why his candidate lost #NVSen by 0.9% while the candidate he backed for governor WON by 1.4!

Oh, their Sen candidate in 2016 lost by 2.4 points.

BTW, do you remember the "crazy" Sharron Angle? Ya, she lost #NVSen in 2010 against the then all powerful Harry Reid by a smaller margin (5.7 points) than the McCain/Romney 2012 losses.

Quality Candidate Dean Heller won #NVSen by only 1.2 in 2012; lost by 5 in 2018.

I'm not trying to freeze your brain with data.

I am simply zooming out on Nevada over the last 15 years to show you that Trump and "his" candidates did there the same or better than the Establishment. I didn't know it until I looked it up now 2:00 am.

Get a life, Yossi.