The Republicans Are Trying Hard to Defeat Themselves
Edward Luce: The storm is coming, according to Donald Trump in his latest nod to QAnon, the far-right conspiracy hive. Nobody will be less delighted about that than Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate leader, whose partys chances of regaining Congress are waning by the day. Midterm elections are normally a referendum on the party in power, which ought to be bad news for Joe Bidens Democrats. But history is an increasingly useless guide. There is nothing normal about todays US politics.
If, as McConnell dreads, this Novembers elections are turning into a referendum on Trump rather than Biden, the party chiefly has itself to blame. This is especially true of the Senate, where a batch of Trump-endorsed candidates is befouling Republican hopes of the one-seat net gain it needs. The libertarian billionaire Peter Thiel has also played a role. His bets on controversial figures such as Arizonas Blake Masters have made McConnells task harder.
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