Experts this past week cited a number of reasons for Lamb’s landslide loss — from his own missteps, including strategy, spending and underestimating his opponent, to timing and an unlucky matchup.

“It certainly didn’t turn out the way they might have imagined — or a lot of people would have imagined,” said Christopher P. Borick, director of Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion. “It was hard to find someone more regarded in electoral politics than Conor Lamb.

“What he didn’t have was the right match for this moment in American politics and, particularly, in Pennsylvania politics.”