Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
As a rule, it’s not great when congressional candidates agree to participate in a televised debate, and then walk out of the event midway through the broadcast. Nevertheless, it was just last week when Chuck Hand, a Republican candidate in Georgia, decided he didn’t like the line of questioning during a primary debate, and exited the stage.
It was, after all, just last month when another Jan. 6 convict, Derrick Evans, also lost badly in a congressional primary in West Virginia. What’s more, some Jan. 6 participants were on the ballot in Virginia last year, and they lost. A year earlier, HuffPost reported, “Many Republican candidates who were directly linked to the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S.
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