The Jolly special election in Florida is the most appropriate for this discussion.
After the GOPe moderate, female, etc candidates lost to the conservative in the primary the GOPe then rallied behind the conservative winner with money and organization.
Jolly was an aide to the former moderate GOP congressman and a lobbyist, a believer in the pork barrel political tradition.
Jolly’s campaign alluded to the former pork barrel congressman with Jolly calling himself a “Bill Young Conservative” or in other words a “pork barrel conservative”.