You are assuming that nationalizing races in blood red Trump states makes sense. The DCCC coming in will allow Gianforte to credibly tie Quist to San Fran Nan and New York Chuck, who I'm sure aren't that popular in Montana. Whose to say Thompson wouldn't have lost by a larger margin had the KS-04 race been nationalized more?
But the Republicans did that anyways. Estes literally says in one of his ads that Thompson "will vote the way Pelosi tells him to."
The result of this election can be attributed to the fact the GOP put a ton of resources into this race after they realized they might lose. Instead of capitalizing on that momentum, the Democrats just sat on their asses and said, "well, we can't win every election."
Democrats constantly think they're playing a chess game with the GOP where they have to sacrifice some moves, when in reality the GOP is playing dodgeball and constantly putting time and money into these elections and winning.
As a non-democrat would you like to know the difference between GOP and Democrat house campaigns? The Dems are fantastic at running on coat tails (either on a dems popularity or on an GOP unpopularity), that is what their strategists and candidates do best, and they attempt to shoehorn all their candidates into this mold.
Republicans are better at running their candidates as individuals, which is why they so easily tie dems to unpopular national dems. This is easily the biggest difference I see in so many dem/rep house campaigns
