Opportunities to expand their majority are few and far between for House Republicans, which makes the perennial and prolapsed candidacy of Jim Hagedorn a problem. The Minnesota Republican won his primary and probably lost what would have been one of the House GOP’s few pickup opportunities in 2018.

That’s because Hagedorn is possibly the worst Republican candidate in the country, considering his past and the current political environment.

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