I gotta love this report from Steve Benen’s campaign roundup (I’d take it right from the Wall Street Journal, but I lack a subscription):
And according to The Wall Street Journal, [President] Trump was directly involved in convincing Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene not to run for the Senate in Georgia next year. The president apparently showed her a polling report that suggested she could win a primary, but she’d lose to Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff by 18 points.
The contrast of winning a primary but losing by 18 points to the incumbent, all in a reddish State, suggests the intolerant zealots retain their grip on the Republican Party, while independents and moderate Republicans are increasingly unimpressed by those same zealots and their choices. And this in a State with a popular and apparently competent executive in Governor Kemp (R-GA), who also refuses to go up against Senator Ossoff (D-GA).
In the end, Georgians may end up just hoping Senator Ossoff has no major character flaws as he turns out to be the only acceptable choice.
