By the way, Donald J. Trump had absolutely no chance of winning the presidency in 2016.
Trump's campaign is doing a last-minute reversal on Minnesota. Trump went dark on TV here this week -- after six weeks of cutting reserved ad time -- but campaign manager Bill Stepien says there will be a major a buy in the campaign's final week.
Jason Lewis (for Senate), Tyler Kistner (MN-02) and LtGov Michelle Fischbach (MN-07) will definitely benefit from this ad buy.
Except, he did, not a fair comparison.
She would certainly have as good a shot as any Republican in a statewide race whether she loses an unwinnable House race or not.
“By the way, Donald J. Trump had absolutely no chance of winning the presidency in 2016.”
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Coop, it is disingenuous of you to compare an ignorant statement from people in an echo chamber about the odds of victory of a Republican nominee for president to a sobering statement admission about the odds of winning of a Republican nominee in a black-majority district based in Baltimore that gave said nominee only 25% of the vote in a special election (a two-candidate race) earlier this year, gave President Trump only 20% in 2016, and gave Romney only 22% in 2012.
The only time in the past 50 years that the GOP has come close to winning a House race in a district in which the two previous presidential candidates had received 25% or below was in LA-02 in 2008, when Joseph Cao was elected (i) in a very low turnout December runoff, (ii) against an unpopular Democrat incumbent who was under indictment for bribery after the FBI found $90,000 in cash in the freezer at his office in the U.S. Capitol, (iii) in a district that was several percentage points more Republican than MD-07 currently is (the LA-02 had given McCain 25% that November and 24% in 2004). If Kweisi Mfume is arrested upon the FBI finding $90,000 in cash in his freezer and the MD-07 House election is delayed until December while the presidential race continues on November 3, then maybe Kim has a chance.
But, as things stand, she has a 0% chance, and all the spending in the world won’t change that.
And no one, repeat, no one can blame Kim for losing both House races in 2020. She has run her guts off and been a great spokesman for the GOP and conservatism. While she will not have a clear path to the GOP nomination for governor or U.S. senator in 2022 (Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford may run for the former and Gov. Hogan may run for the latter), her performance in the House races will be an asset, not a liability, for her among the GOP electorate in MD.