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It's no surprise that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wants to flip the chamber in 2022.

But one potential obstacle keeps coming

up time and time again. Multiple Donald Trump backed candidates who might sweep their

GOP primaries but go on to lose in the general election. Take Georgia, for example. While Trump is

all been begging NFL legend Herschel Walker to run against Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock, McConnell views Walker's past as a vulnerability.

A recent AP story detailed Walker's record of threatening and violent behavior, including once allegedly holding a pistol to his then-wife's head and threatening to, quote, blow her effing brains out.

Walker has spoken openly about having dissociative identity disorder. Josh Holmes, Mitch McConnell's political right-hand man,

tweeted a link to the article writing, this is about as comprehensive a takedown as I've ever read,

my lord. The GOP's troubles don't just end in Georgia in Missouri. Former Governor Eric

Gritens is hugging Trump's big lie about the 2020 election in hopes of winning the

GOP nomination for retiring Senator Roy Blunt's seat. But he also has major vulnerabilities. In

2018, he was forced to resign after being accused of sexually assaulting a woman, tying her up and taking nude photos of her in order to blackmail her into silence.

Gritons admitted to an affair but denied the blackmail accusation.

If Gritons wins the primary, senior Republicans worry that they can kiss goodbye to what should be an easy election.

In Pennsylvania, Republicans are similarly worried

about the crop of GOP hopefuls looking to succeed Senator Pat Toomey. None of the major Republican

candidates has ever been elected to public office, and as the Philly Inquirer recently reported,

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