Pretty bad when your party members think that attending your excuse for a convention will only hurt them at the polls:
"Representative Tom Barrett of Michigan, a first-term Republican defending a competitive seat, is not going. 'I can't control what the president's going to say at the convention, but I can control where I'm at,' Barrett told Politico last week." -from the article linked to.
Scary Austin JUST VOTED BLUE!
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