"I took a lot of time over the summer thinking about the 2018
Senate race in building a “Theory of the Case”. Essentially, the question was
“what would justify the long-shot candidacy of an inexperienced man, in a
heavily Democratic state, who has lived only ten years in MD, and who knew few
people in the state outside his own town?”
That (admittedly thin) case was built around a central
proposition—that Hillary Clinton would win the upcoming Presidential election,
that in the first election in her off-year Presidency her party would take a
beating, that the Democrats wouldn’t necessarily want to spend money (at least
early on) to shore up what was generally an “in the bank” state, that a popular
Republican Governor would be on the ballot, and that Obamacare would have had
two more years to fester, creating additional problems for the Democratic
incumbent.
Under these circumstances, a perfectly run, well-financed,
and “lucky” Republican could have a small chance.
Donald Trump’s victory Tuesday dramatically alters the
landscape. The Party on the hotseat in 2018 will be the Republican Party, with
whom my brand of conservatism is somewhat out of fashion. Obamacare will not be
an albatross to hang around the Democrats’ neck, as it will by then have been
reformed.
And so, I simply can’t justify all the sacrifices that I and people I
love would have to make for this run to happen. I tried to bring method and
planning to the decision, so that in the end, my case for running was more than
“I’d really like to be a Senator”. The tentpole planning supposition of that
method and that case has now fallen, and all I am left with is the desire to be
a Senator and the desire to make things better. I will always think these noble
impulses, and if I were independently wealthy, nothing would stop me. But I am
not, and so I bring this process to a close.
Thank you so very much for having taken me seriously for the
past few months, and thank you for being a part of my life.
Bryan McGrath
The State of Maryland is lesser for it.
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