“Imagine that, in 2018, [Hillary] Clinton had been very active on the campaign trail, endorsing candidates that often went against the wishes of the party establishment, repeatedly claiming that the 2016 election had been stolen – and then there had been a FBI seizure of classified secretary of state records in Chappaqua. Would that have helped Democrats in the midterms? Probably not”
– Nate Silver in a FiveThirtyEight piece titled “Why Trump’s Presence In The Midterms Is Risky For The GOP.” Definitely an interesting question to ask and one that sticks out amid the long grinding hamster wheel of such pieces coming in from Nate and his cohort ahead of the election. Of course the reaction would be completely disproportionate, especially from the mainstream media, but you could see how there would be definite damage done in giving someone for Republicans to feel like they were running against that they didn’t really have in the real world in 2018. It was all just Soros and Caravans, maybe Robert Mueller to an extent, but Biden wasn’t in the picture.