Did you even read the article? He lost the REPUBLICAN primary election but was nominated by a different party. Yes, he lost to one party, but that doesn’t mean he lost the entire election. Usually one waits until the actual election to declare a winner or loser to said election. A primary vote does not an election make.

If you are speaking in terms of ‘from within the party’, then I can see your point – if one supports Republicans for the sake of supporting Republicans, then it doesn’t matter what Democrat gets elected. It would be understandable, then, for the Party to maneuver in some way to ensure as much weight as possible goes to the most electable candidate, even if he is not the one ‘endorsed’ by the party. But the damage is already done; hate-mongerers have made sure the party is split around the issue of equality. That is bad maneuvering on their part in the long term, but it would still make career politicians a hair more cautious.

Each of the 3 now have about $20-25,000 cash on hand. Andrews has never raised much and McDonald and Marchione exhausted their war chests fighting each other.

But going forward, McDonald is well positioned to re-stock his chest and can count on help from the NY Unity PAC, created by Paul Singer. Marchione can only be competitive if she gets significant help from the GOP senate committee. They are obligated to support her, since she holds the GOP line, but they could easily decide to send her a token check. Their nightmare scenario is one in which Marchione and McDonald are evenly matched and end up splitting the GOP vote, thus electing Andrews. So if they know that McDonald will have real money and the Cuomo endorsement, they may well conclude that they are better off not restocking Marchione’s war chest.