A year after promising viewers a “red tsunami” in the 2022 midterms, only to be left with egg on their faces after the GOP drastically underperformed, Fox News was once again wondering what went wrong after Democrats romped to victory in statewide elections on Tuesday night.

Despite recent polls showing President Joe Biden deeply underwater with voters and even losing to Donald Trump in several battleground states, the Democratic incumbent governor easily won victory over his MAGA-endorsed opponent in deep-red Kentucky. And over in Ohio, a state Trump won by eight points in 2020, voters overwhelmingly passed an amendment ensuring access to abortion care in the state’s constitution.

The continued drag that undoing Roe v. Wade has had on the GOP was especially apparent in Virginia, where Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin had promised to implement a 15-week abortion ban if the GOP was able to gain unified control over the state’s General Assembly. Instead, not only were Youngkin’s hopes of a Republican sweep dashed, but the Democrats now control both chambers.

  • @Ibex0@lemmy.world
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    1001 year ago

    We all remember that 10-year-old rape survivor in Ohio and the repugs who demanded she give birth to her rapist’s baby.

    • athos77
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      291 year ago

      I’m just going to point out that, in a bunch of states, if you give birth to your rapist’s baby, the rapist can get parental visitation rights.

      • @CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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        151 year ago

        They’re just trying to make America great again: the good old days where if you wanted a woman you could just rape her and she’d have to marry you to avoid the social shame!