A Nevada Campaign Manager Thinks His Candidate Lost A Judicial Race Because He's A Man
By MORGAN BRINLEE
2 hours ago
Search Bustle...
A Nevada Campaign Manager Thinks His Candidate Lost A Judicial Race Because He's A Man
By MORGAN BRINLEE
2 hours ago
Adam Berry/Getty Images News/Getty Images
In the months that follow an election loss, candidates' campaign teams often seek to uncover exactly what went wrong. Perhaps it was inaccurate polling, a lack of advertising, a town hall gone awry. Or perhaps it was... the candidate's gender? One Nevada campaign manager claimed his candidate's sex cost him victory.
Months after Mark Bailus lost his campaign as an appointed incumbent, his campaign manager reportedly thinks he's uncovered why the Nevada judicial candidate's campaign failed. According to The Las Vegas Review-Journal, Bailus' campaign manager allegedly blamed the loss on 2018 being "an extremely difficult year to be a man and defeat a woman."
"The defeat was not by any means the fault of Judge Bailus, but more due to the political climate of the 2018 elections," The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported David Thomas, Bailus' campaign manager, wrote in a letter reportedly submitted alongside Bailus' application to fill a different vacant seat on the Clark County District Court bench. "Despite Judge Bailus' great commitment, he could not overcome the pattern that occurred in all major judicial races between a man and a woman in 2018."
"It was an extremely difficult year to be a man and defeat a woman in a judicial race," Thomas reportedly went on to write.
More:
https://www.bustle.com/p/a-nevada-campaign-manager-thinks-his-candidate-lost-a-judicial-race-because-hes-a-man-15938704
= new reply since forum marked as read
