Commentary: It’s Groundhog Day for the GOP. Failure after defeat is becoming a Republican hallmark
by Kurt Bardella, Los Angeles Times
Dec 01, 2022
3 minutes
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A favorable map. Media narratives dissecting the uphill climb for Democrats. A Senate majority within sight.
But Republicans underperform and fail to win the Senate. A postmortem is ordered by the Republican National Committee.
Sound familiar?
If it feels like history is repeating itself, that’s because it is.
In 2012, the Republicans had everything going for them heading into the election — just as they did in 2022 — until the candidates
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