Part of it has to do with the fact that Lamar! secured endorsements from key players early on to avoid any serious/major elected officials from stepping up to run.
Conservatives / Tea Party should identify and target RINOs early. Quickly view the candidates (even offer a forum) to determine which CONSERVATIVE candidate to back. It really needs to become a two candidate primary.
Finishing 2nd in every one of these senate races isn’t going to change things.
The problems we have in TN makes dumping RINOs difficult, especially now.
#1, we don’t have closed party primaries.
#2, the complete collapse of the TN Democrat party means they are free to interfere in our GOP primaries and choose our most liberal nominees. In Joe Carr’s legislative seat, the most left-wing RINO running won the nomination. Dems and RINOs joined up to aggressively take out our best and most outspoken Tea Party State Senator, Stacey Campfield.
#3, we have no runoffs. You have enough liberal Dems or RINOs voting in a given primary, they merely need to count on Conservatives splitting the vote amongst numerous candidates and waltz to victory with a plurality.
All of these will have to be corrected before we can effectively get our people in.