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s it stands as
we go to press
in late April, the
polling suggests
that Republicans
are headed for a
potentially devastating midterm
election setback
across the country. Democrats
have led in virtually every “generic
ballot” that asks voters who they
prefer to win the midterm vote. In
fact, on my weekly appearances
on Fox News Channel, I’ve been
warning Republicans of impending
disaster for many months.
But… maybe not in Georgia’s
U.S. Senate race.
While I’ve consistently declared U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff the
favorite to win reelection, a closer
examination of what could take
place— and I emphasize could-suggests Ossoff could be defeated.
And that’s regardless of which
candidate wins the Republican
senatorial nomination.
This of course assumes that
various fundraising groups that
play a big role in such a contest,
such as the heretofore incompetent National Republican Senatorial Committee, get their act
together. In the midterms in 2022
it wasted huge amounts on the
re-election of the basically useless
Lisa Murkowski in Alaska by pull-
attached of producing the same
old non-creative ad production and
ad buyers?
A GOP Path to Defeat Ossoff
ing the rug out from under competitive nominees who then-GOP
Senate Leader Mitch McConnell
deemed “bad candidates.” (By the
way, McConnell now has a whopping 15 percent approval rating
in his home state of Kentucky.) A
quick look in the mirror by McConnell would have shown what a
really bad candidate looks like.
In any event, perhaps some
good news: The Senate Leadership
political action committee vowed
in April to commit $44 million to
defeating Ossoff. But will the cash
come with the typical D.C. strings
Assuming miracles take place
and the campaign and national
groups decide to actually work as
hard and smart as Georgia’s state
GOP leadership, let’s consider the
playbook for an Ossoff defeat.
It starts by recognizing how
much harder it is now to game
Georgia general elections, notwithstanding the Democrats’ idiotic and
historically inaccurate comparison
of Georgia’s election reforms as
“Jim Crowe 2.0.” Mail-in ballots
now require a photo ID and actual
Social Security or driver’s license
numbers (last four digits for the
Social number). That stipulation
would have effectively shut down
the Democratic ballot harvesting
I personally witnessed on Christmas Eve of 2020 when a group of
around a hundred Democrat ballot
chasers were gathered at our Cobb
County hotel sharing stories of how
they snagged ballots.
Then there is the limit of voting
line parties, with all sorts of goodies
to eat and drink, that took place to
lure in voters in 2020 and the subsequent Senate runoffs. That ban was
quickly turned into a “no water for
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