turned 50, which he did in 2017) in 2018 (The Blue Wave) would likely not be a US mega MAGAt Senator today. It was an open seat, and yet McGraw refused to run against that vile creature. In 2020 it was also an open seat for the other TN US Senate slot, and McGraw again refused to run. I SO wish he would run in 2024 against white trash white power, christofash Blackburn, but I doubt he will. His promises seem to have been empty for all those years.
I am so disappointed in all of the following:
McGraw (twice in 2018 and 2020) refused to run
Stephen King in ME, in 2020, who would have likely defeated Concern Collins, refused to run
Sebelius in KS, in 2020, the first really good chance we had of winning a Senate seat (and it was another OPEN seat) for KS in over 50 years and likely 90 years, refused to run
Vilsack, IA 2020, as a very popular ex IA governor, plus also Axne (both would have been better candidates than Greenfield) both refused to run against a weak Ernst (she was very unpopular then)
Begich in 2020 AK (and he had already previously won a US Senate seat before there) refused to run, and thus we had NO Dem candidate, thus a weak indie, Gross, lost.
and finally
In NC, Jeff Jackson (my favourite) plus Stein and Foxx all refused to run against the very very weak Tillis (other than Cory Gardner in CO, Tillis was the weakest Rethug running in 2020, and Gardner's biggest issue was CO is now sold deep Blue, so Tillis was likely the pure worst candidate for Rethug incumbents running for Senate), thus we got stuck with the sexting scandal/adultery scandal Cal Cunningham, who blew up his campaign and lost a decent lead and blew the election.
six 2020 elections where we failed to field decent candidates and lost them all, with great candidates refused to run.
If we had just won TWO of those 6 (OR, if McGraw had ran and won 2 years earlier, when he had an even better chance of winning) won ONE of those 6, we would have had 52 seats post election, thus very little (or likely none) of the Manchin and Sinema destruction that they did, (and it was massive). I think we, in reality, would have ended up with 53 or 54 Dems, TBH, had all of the top candidates listed above run. We also, at a national level, failed to support Bullock in Montana against the weak Daines, and to a less extent, Greenfield in IA. Bullock had a decent lead (and Greenfield has a slim one at times) until they both got buried in 100 million dollars or so of RW, late, dark money-fuelled massive attack adverts. People wasted over 100 million in excess contributions contributing to wish-fulfillment pipe dream races in SC, TX, KY, and to a lesser extent, Gideon taking on Collins in ME (Gideon was a non native Mainer, which, combined with Manchin endorsing Collins so she could pump up her fake AF 'I am totally bipartisan!' bullshit, was used to smash Gideon). All of those Dem campaigns had so much money wastefully given to them that they had tens of millions that was never spent, whilst MT and IA bled out. The national apparatus did a poor job in both candidate recruitment and funding distribution.
It has all vexed me for 3 (and in McGraw's case, 5) years
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