Former Republican operative Rick Wilson signaled that MAGA's reliance on President Donald Trump has backfired in primary elections this week.
In his Substack, the co-founder of the anti-Trump organization The Lincoln Project detailed how Trump ally Mike Lindell's "amusing and delicious loss" in the Minnesota Republican primary revealed just how the president's standing has fallen among voters.
Wilson shared a strategy that he expects will play out come November.
"The lesson of last night, and it’s one that I’ve repeated for several decades now, is that candidate quality matters most," Wilson wrote.
"Candidate fit-to-district is a very close second," he explained. "Don’t run a DSA candidate in a red state, no matter how good that makes you feel. If I were advising the GOP still, the lesson would be 'Don’t run a rabid MAGA screamer in a blue state or district,' not that the MAGA GOP has anything left but rabid MAGA screamers."
And with primary season wrapping up, he suggested Democrats could make serious gains in midterms.
"The final sprint is before us," Wilson added. "The landscape remains strongly favorable for big Democratic wins, as long as they stick to the message of economic affordability and ending the corruption that’s causing it. They win as long as they stick to their guns on tying MAGA candidates to Trump and his deeply, wildly unpopular positions."