The 2026 Election, 10th Edition. The Setting the stage for a Pyrrhic Victory edition.

 

We start off this edition with what might be a little light at the end of a tunnel:

GOP Senate Challengers Emerge To Take On Harriet Hageman In Primary

I'll note that the LinkedIn article is the first really good article on Skovgard's views that I've seen.  Personally, I'm favoring Mead.

And something to remember:

Hageman's Senate Run Reignites Criticisms Over Public Lands

And then there's this:

Wyoming Republican Party plans to buck law and endorse candidates ahead of critical primary

The GOP is really playing with fire here.  It's correct that as a private organization the government shouldn't tell it who it can and cannot endorse.  But then, the laws of the state shouldn't give a preferential position to a private organization, let alone a political party.  As a "major party" it has a role in nominating replacement for some positions and has pride of place in primaries.  When challenged in court, and it could be, this might be the first step towards an open primary in Wyoming.  That is, one with no parties noted at all.

In other races, the amount of money being violently hurled by Chuck Gray and Reid Rasner at the House race is simply nuts.  Weekly flyers now arrive, printed obviously by the same company, by both candidates, and television ads appear constantly.  Frankly Rasner's television ads are a little better than  Gray's, the latter of which basically amount to a swooning expression of love, albeit by a man who comes across as so angry its unhinged, and absolute fealty to Donald Trump.  Rasner has, in my view, less than zero chance of winning the seat, but if he has any success at all it will be due to his media blitz.  At any rate, both campaigns are largely self funded, which gives rise to the "well, it's their money" comment.  None the less, the expenditure of this sort of money is obscene and is reason enough that neither man should win office . . . any office.

The Star Tribune ran an article about the Democratic candidate taking on Art Washut, one of the best members of the Wyoming legislature.  Stewart McAdoo turns out to be a South Carolinian, so we'd put him in the carpetbagger category, and he's running on the predictable Democratic seas of blood support of infanticide.  

Related threads:

Pollice Verso. The 2026 Political Negative Endorsement. The Don't Vote For List.

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