Defeated Republican Claims ‘Jesus Christ Could Have Run And Would Have Lost’ This Election

HuffPost · Elyse Wanshel · 2026-11-05 19:49 UTC

“Wow …what a quote,” CNN’s Anderson Cooper said in response.

Holy hell.

CNN chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju shared a few quotes on Wednesday from defeated Republicans about why they think they lost their respective races in the midterm elections, with Anderson Cooper and Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) delivering quite the gem.

Lawler lost his reelection bid in New York’s 17th Congressional District to Democrat Cait Conley, with Raju pointing out that Lawler already had an uphill battle, considering he was “one of the three Republicans running in a district that Kamala Harris actually carried in 2024.”

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