National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Jesse Hunt:
Republican senators have incredible records of accomplishment on behalf of their constituents and it’s important they tell that story. Those accomplishments stand in stark contrast to the disturbing pattern of scandal and extremism that’s engulfed Democrat campaigns. [WaPo, edited]
Given that Republican senators have lamented how this Congress’ Senate, under the leadership of Senator McConnell (R-KY), has done virtually nothing beyond confirm conservative judges, their “incredible” accomplishments will be confined to those four years prior to to 2018. The 2016-2018 period of accomplishments consisted of a failed effort to replace the ACA with an inferior bill in which most Senators did not participate in writing that bill, and the ineffective 2017 tax reform bill, which gifted higher profits to corporations, while doing diddly-squat for everyone who was not an investor.
The two years before that was the end of the Obama Administration, in which McConnell, once again, permitted very little to happen.
I fear these campaigns by GOP incumbents will be a great tax on their storytelling capabilities. Much of it will be justifying their votes on the Kavanaugh nomination and, even more painfully, the Trump impeachment trial.
And Hunt will be desperate to justify a remark which appears to be ridiculous, if only to their family.
