Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
Headed into the 2022 midterm elections, Senate Republicans were optimistic. All the party needed was a net gain of one seat to flip the chamber and enjoy the benefits of a majority. Historical models suggested such a result was all but inevitable, and Sen. Rick Scott, in his capacity as chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, boasted that his party had a path to a majority with 55 seats. Voters had other ideas.
Her dedication to the lie was so resolute that Trump urged fellow stop-the-stealer Blake Masters to follow her example. ” As regular readers might recall, Lake’s over-the-top radicalism and aggressive commitment to conspiratorial lies became so notorious that she was even lampooned on “Saturday Night Live.” After her defeat, Lake added her own race to her election conspiracy theories, insisting that she was elected governor, despite the actual election results showing otherwise.
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