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highplainsdem

(48,988 posts) Tue Dec 12, 2017, 11:35 PM Dec 2017

Senate Leadership Fund CEO: "Candidate quality matters" & "Bannon cost us a critical Senate seat"

Picking this up from FiveThirtyEight's live blog of election results, this reported by David Wasserman at 10:28 PM:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/alabama-senate-election-results/

Damning statement from Senate Leadership Fund CEO Steven Law: “This is a brutal reminder that candidate quality matters regardless of where you are running. Not only did Steve Bannon cost us a critical Senate seat in one of the most Republican states in the country, but he also dragged the President of the United States into his fiasco.”