Separately, Sean Hannity fumed, “Democrats are painting Republican Senate candidates in upcoming elections and midterms as cruel and out of touch. Well, apparently Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is content to leave them out to dry and fend for themselves.”

Apparently, if Republicans don’t win the Senate in 2022, it will be Mitch McConnell’s fault.

Of course, McConnell can’t control who GOP primary electorates choose to nominate, and one glaring piece of counter-evidence is that McConnell’s super-PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund, just announced it would spend $28 million on television ads in Ohio to help elect J.D. Vance. For perspective, as of June 30, the Vance campaign had spent less than $3 million… total, not just on television ads.

How is spending $28 million “leav[ing] them out to dry and fend for themselves,” as Hannity characterized it?

The evidence is mounting that the 2022 GOP primaries nominated a bunch of candidates who are not great fundraisers and who could win contested primaries, but have real trouble connecting with the broader electorate.