re: Ben Shapiro Takeaways from last night

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5. Candidate quality matters -- underlying dynamics are not strong enough to drive bad candidates to victory.

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A lot of laughing emojis at this comment in this thread, but I'm not sure why.

I don't think it is meant to be applied as a general comment to both Republicans and Democrats and Shapiro is saying that it matters significantly to Republicans.

Democrats will elect anyone with a D next to the name. Republicans will stay home and not vote for someone they don't like or cast a "protest" vote for a Libertarian.

We may all think it's stupid or whatever, but it is generally true.

Look at Georgia:

Kemp is up on Abrams by almost 300k votes in Gubernatorial election.

Walker is down by almost 20k votes to Warnock.

In the GA Senate election, approx. 81k votes went to Libertarian candidate.

In the GA Gubernatorial election, approx. 28k votes went to Libertarian candidate

A better Republican candidate than Walker wins running away away.