He’d be supporting the strongest Republicans in contested races and doing everything he could to bolster Republicans in vulnerable states and districts. You really need to understand that this is their idea of an election pitch:Former White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci will appear before the Senate this week for a hearing. No one's going to get Fauci to change his mind about the origin of the virus -- he still believes it emerged naturally, not from a lab, as do many other experts. (Fauci was serving as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a job to which he'd been appointed during the presidency of Ronald Reagan.) The facts of his career don't matter -- to the GOP base, Fauci in 2020 represents Democrats in 2026.