What will the 8th Senate District Republicans do now? Election denier leads their ticket.

The contest for the Republican presidential nomination is over and Republicans in the 8th Senate District must be filled with dread. Frontline party organizers in the 11-town district vented their frustrations on Facebook as they pointed the way forward in the immediate aftermath of their disappointing 2022 election.

The first lesson: “time to be rid of Trump forever, and ignorant ‘purity’ tests during primaries are counterproductive.” There are not likely to be many primaries this year, the Republicans will once more have Donald Trump at the head of their ticket.

There’s no indication the “the toxic politics of Trump” will do anything but accelerate–as he delights in donning the mantle of retribution and continues to extoll the talents of murderous dictators.

A woman’s right to abortion serves is not likely to recede as an issue Republican candidates will continue to spend time explaining. Election deniers have not gone away. George Logan, running again for Congress in CD5 will embrace a leading one on March 16th when Speaker of the House Mike Johnson headlines a fundraiser for him.

Avon Republican Lisa Seminara won her first term in the senate by defeating Democrat Paul Hong by 124 votes of the 45,784 votes cast. The two will compete in a rematch this fall–with the most famous election denier three spots away from Seminara on the ballot. It must be a relief for Seminara that Republican activists have spotted no “election deniers and extremists” in her district.

Published March 7, 2024.