mcconnell welcomed the challenge and reminded reporters why republicans failed. we underperformed among independents and moderates because their impression of many of the people in our party and leadership roles is that they re involved in chaos, negativity, excessive attacks, and it frightened independent and moderate republican voters. the republican on republican cage matches come nearly 24 hours after arizona, home of barry goldwater and john mccain, said no thank you to the well groomed maga heiress, kari lake. her loss was the third of the four state-wide races for republicans and stand as a stubborn reminder that the mega maga party just ain t working, at least in arizona, which has reaffirmed its rejection of trump continuously. in a few hours, the leader of the faltering party, donald trump, is set to look that failure in the face and say,