I am well behind on my political commentary, but I felt this Washington Post editorial board editorial about how well the Republicans are doing in Maryland was worth posting.
They made a big mistake. I guess there were so few of them voting in the primary that their Trumpian candidate got the nomination for governor, and it was downhill, fast, from there. A Trumpian candidate will not do well in this state. And he didn't.
This election is a chronicle of a disaster foretold for Maryland’s GOP
"Mr. Hogan himself publicly questioned the mental stability of state Del. Dan Cox, the GOP’s gubernatorial nominee, who flirted with QAnon and called former vice president Mike Pence a “traitor” for refusing to block Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election. The governor endorsed neither Mr. Cox nor the Republican candidate for attorney general, Michael Peroutka. Mr. Peroutka regards the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, not as a terrorist assault but an inside job — and, glorifying the Civil War South, calls himself a “true Confederate.” Mr. Cox lost by more than 20 points; Mr. Peroutka by nearly as much."
Well, in Maryland at least, we prefer our candidates to be sane, to begin with. And we also prefer the Democratic, most of the time.
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