Republicans don’t know who to blame for the loss of Herschel Walkers

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As the right grapples with the defeat of Republican Herschel Walkers in the Georgia Senate runoff, a circular firing squad has emerged between Donald Trump loyalists and his critics over whether the former president has become the kiss of electoral death. Walker, a former star football player who was dogged by endless scandal throughout the race, topped the GOP primary thanks to an early endorsement from Trump. But in his Tuesday runoff against Sen. Raphael Warnock, he delivered a far worse performance than any Republican candidate who ran statewide in Georgia, sparking a cascade of finger-pointing.

On Fox News, host Laura Ingraham fired at the Republican National Committee, blaming Walkers’ loss on allegedly lackluster parties despite her myriad character flaws. We felt it coming. For me, it never felt like Senate Republicans wanted this guy in power. He was a Trump pick, they didn’t like it, but there wasn’t the intensity from Republicans like there was from Democrats, Ingraham said shortly after the call. of the race on Tuesday evening. We have the same people in place in management. The same people in place, apparently at the RNC, maybe that doesn’t change. We keep doing the same thing over and over again. I’m pissed tonight, frankly. I’m mad.

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At the other end of the spectrum, commentator Erick Erickson has presented a markedly different theory. Donald Trump chooses the weakest candidates, and those linked to Trump lose in the places that matter, he wrote in a post-mortem column on Wednesday, while Senator John Thune called Trump an albatross and real disability, according to HuffPost reporter Arthur Delaney.

Meanwhile, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the incendiary Republican from Georgia, tried to blame the Walkers team, apparently arguing that he lost because his campaign didn’t embrace Trump enough during the second round. Greenes’ sentiment came in response to John Bolton who pointed out that the Republican deficit in Georgia was mainly due to Trump and his persistent lies about the 2020 election. This has to be the dumbest assessment of the loss of our Senate,” she replied in a tweet. Her campaign told Trump to stay out, so don’t blame Trump, she added. Blame whoever was holding it statewide, among many other reasons. It’s unclear who Greene is referring to in regards to the grip. However, it should be noted that Senator Lindsey Grahamnot Trump appeared to chaperone the former footballer in various media appearances in the final weeks of the race.

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