GOP hopes for taking the Senate majority: finding better 2024 candidates and better anti-fraud and ballot harvesting preparation

Let’s start with Montana. Republican Tim Sheehy, a former Navy Seal, has entered the 2024 Montana Senate race.

I think he has a better shot at beating incumbent Democrat Senator John Tester than Congressman Matt Rosendale, who lost to him in 2018. That year, 2018, was a very good Dem year, and Tester won by 3.6%. Montana is more Republican in presidential election years.

Senator Steve Daines from Montana is running the GOP Senate effort for 2024, and he is trying to find candidates who have a good shot at winning general elections and making primary endorsements accordingly. An insider tells us that they don’t plan on making the same mistake as in 2022 again.

Rick Scott, who ran the Senate election strategy in 2022, was a failure, refusing to get involved in primaries. Hence, Georgia, Arizona, and Pennsylvania candidates and their losses.

In other 2024 races, West Virginia should be a pickup, with or without Manchin running. Montana will be close as all of Tester’s races always have been.

Ohio is a bit uphill: Sherrod Brown is running with basically the same platform as J. D. Vance did. He is an old-style Dem populist and will be tough to beat. Plus, there is no obvious GOP challenger.

Arizona is now a slightly lean-Dem state. Maybe Ruben Gallegos is too far left, or Sinema is a third-party candidate, creating GOP opportunities there.

Michigan is an open seat, but Elissa Slotkin is a good candidate for Dems. I don't think we will win Pennsylvania (Robert Casey, Jr. is a good candidate).

Rumor has we have a Republican House.

I can’t say that for a fact.

If there were a Republican House 87k IRS would have been nixed in favor of 87k border agents.

And lawyers for the J6ers would be going through 14k hours of video looking for exculpatory evidence.

I’ve heard from several big Trump supporters that there will not be any fraud in the 2024 election, and that is why Trump can win in 2024 when he got the election stolen from him in 2020.

I would presume that Trump’s triumph over vote theft will help down-ticket republicans as well. At least the ones he decides are worthy of his support, and by support I obviously don’t mean he’d give them money or anything because he doesn’t play that game, but that he might try not saying really bad things about them.

The Republican edge in the House is very thin, and the Supreme Court has just ordered racial gerrymandering in two states which will hand two seats to the Democrats. That nutcase freshman Congressman in New York is likely to be a one-termer. So the Republicans need to focus on the most vulnerable Democrats.

Granted, they make little use of their majority status, but at least they chair committees and can conduct hearings.

We need many, many representatives among THOSE WHO HANDLE THE BALLOTS AND COUNT THE VOTES. Boxes of mail-ins that have never seen the inside of an envelope, with all the signatures in the same three or four handwritings must be rejected out of hand. Ballot transport can NOT be trusted to any Democrat without a Republican watcher accompanying. Preferably armed, as self defense may become necessary.

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