.MaddowBlog: Republicans want to recruit candidates to run for Senate seats, but they’ve created a chamber that the best candidates don’t want to be a part of.
Brian Witte / APAs Senate Republicans took stock of the 2022 election cycle last year, they recognized that there would likely be competitive contests in battleground states such as Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. But GOP leaders also believed they could create some competitive races in reliably “blue” states by recruiting the right candidates to run.
“I sincerely appreciate all the people who have been encouraging me to consider it. A number of people have said they thought I could make a difference in the Senate and be a voice of common sense and moderation,” Hogan said. “I was certainly humbled by that and it gave me and my family a reason to consider it, but as I have repeatedly said, I don’t aspire to be a United States senator and that fact has not changed.
For Van Hollen, this was no doubt welcome news. There are no top-tier Republicans preparing to take him on, and the filing deadline is just two weeks away. But the fact that Republican officials gave Hogan the hard sell, practically begging him to run, only to be rebuffed, is part of a larger pattern.back in November, noting that the party is “struggling to land top-tier recruits even as the deteriorating political climate for Democrats puts them in a strong position to win back the chamber.” It was accurate at the time, and it’s even truer now.
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