The democrats are in charge. They have no power here until midterms, and then the general election. I don't know why they haven't fixed that issue yet.

It's not a conspiracy, they literally would prefer to have MAGA Republicans as their opposition.

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/27/1106859552/primary-illinois-colorado-republican-candidate-democrats-ads

There it's from NPR.

So yeah. I mean, seems like a no-brainer.