All the more reason to be active at the primary level.
Thad lost by 1,418 votes out of 318,902 in the MS GOP primary. Two years earlier, 710,746 voted for Mitt. Less than half showed up for the current primary. Voter turn-out could have easily changed this from the establishment guy.
did you hear about what happened in MASS?
They used their state convention to block 2 conservatives from being on the ballot. It took months to reverse one of them (the other guy couldn’t afford to fight it) and by then the damage was done.