The Tightrope Act of Mitch McConnell’s “Perfect Candidate”

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Republicans harbor hope that Colorado could be winnable for them in a bad year for Democrats, and with the right candidate. They bet on both with Joe O’Dea.

Democrats’ post-primary efforts to label O’Dea as yet another out-of-step, right-wing, Trump-loving extremist who can’t be trusted.)O’Dea won the primary, 54 to 45 percent—an uncomfortably close margin against a candidate who leaders of both parties felt was unelectable.

So when I spoke with Peotter the day after Trump’s nastygram, he was flying high, if a little overwhelmed. Peotter described himself to me as a “libertarian on almost every issue,” but, “as a Christian, I am also very pro-life, and I’m the only pro-life option on the ballot.”“You can’t campaign against family values and expect to hold on to the conservatives in your state,” he said. “So when they argue they should moderate to the center because that’s the only way to win, I want to show them that the Libertarian Party will take their base from them.

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