Instead, we focused on a handful of swing districts. Here in West Tennessee, in House District 97, we had a great candidate, Jesse Huseth, who ran an excellent race. He exceeded all of his fundraising and campaign targets. He still lost. There are a lot of reasons for that loss, most of which have nothing to do with Huseth or his team. In our opinion, the biggest reason was that the Republican machine was able to focus exclusively on District 97, because previously, in race after race surrounding that District, no Democratic candidate showed up to run.
