Election night 2023 was a GOP disaster, and Fox News is pissed—killing off Youngkin’s candidacy before it existed and telling Republicans to set aside their abortion fixation.

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.

  • Kid_Thunder
    145•1 year ago

    “Democrats are trying to scare women into thinking Republicans don’t want abortion legal under any circumstances.”

    • Sean Hannity

    I think the GOP did that themselves last year in regards to the 10 year old girl who had to cross state lines into Indiana to get an abortion.

    • TechyDad
      57•1 year ago

      And don’t forget the “life of the mother” exceptions in places like Texas that can only be triggered if the woman is actively dying. If she’s not close enough to death, it is still “carry it to term or else.”

      • @Serinus@lemmy.world
        22•1 year ago

        Hey, but the doctor and all the medical staff could bet their medical licenses that the legal gray area would favor them in a particular case.

        Of course it might be harder to practice medicine after the hospital execs consult with legal and fire your ass.

        But hey, there’s an off chance that legally you could get away with saving the life of the mother before death was imminent. Well, depending on the judge in Texas that day.

        • @CADmonkey@lemmy.world
          3•1 year ago

          Of course it might be harder to practice medicine after the hospital execs consult with legal and fire your ass.

          Its also going to be hard to practice medicine when a distraught husband pays a visit to your office to discuss why you let their wife die. It’s Texas, too. So not only will a doctor have to get yelled at and threatened, he will be yelled at and threatened by the hysterically upset and armed man in his office who has nothing to lose.

    • @Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
      47•1 year ago

      Remember they were trying to push that moron Herschel Walker on people? That idiot straight up said that no exceptions were acceptable for abortion

      • Kid_Thunder
        33•1 year ago

        I mean I could post the quotes of him supporting a no-exception national abortion ban and the quote of him saying that if he really paid for an abortion that there’s no shame in that. But that’s low hanging fruit. Instead, I’m just going for the fruit that already fell on the ground:

        I’m this country boy. I’m not that smart.

        • Herschel Walker

        And people say, ‘Herschel, you played football.’ But I said, ‘Guys, I also was valedictorian of my class. I also was in the top 1% of my graduating class in college.

        • Also Herschel Walker

        So what we do is we’re going to put, from the ‘Green New Deal,’ millions or billions of dollars cleaning our good air up. So all of a sudden China and India ain’t putting nothing in there – cleaning that situation up. So all with that bad air, it’s still there. But since we don’t control the air, our good air decide to float over to China, bad air. So when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move. So it moves over to our good air space. And now we’ve got to clean that back up.

        • Herschel Walker again. This isn’t a joke.
          • @fritobugger2017@lemmy.world
            9•1 year ago

            He didn’t even graduate. He wasn’t smart when he entered UGA and after 2 decades of football, he has that football brain injury thing.

        • @jballs@lemmy.world
          10•1 year ago

          Jesus, that good air / bad air quote was hard to read. If I’m following him, and I might have too many braincells to do this correctly, he’s arguing that we shouldn’t have clean air because then someone else might benefit from our clean air? So we should just pollute the shit out of our air, because then at least the Chinese won’t have a shot at getting any of our sweet, sweet clean air?

          That’s like saying you’re not going to put indoor plumbing in your house, because your neighbor might not put indoor plumbing in their house. And if they’re going to live up to their necks in shit, you’ll be god-damned if you’re not gonna live neck-deep in your own shit too! Otherwise, if you weren’t absolutely drowning in your own shit, there’s a chance that you might catch a whiff of your neighbor’s shit, and ain’t no way are you gonna let that happen.

          • @Gamoc@lemmy.world
            14•1 year ago

            What are you doing? Either use the slur without the censor, or don’t use it at all. If you censor you’re acknowledging that you know you shouldn’t be using it and then you decided to do it anyway. Either own it or be better, you can’t do both.

            • @Dkarma@lemmy.world
              -11•1 year ago

              He did it so ppl like you would stfu and not get all pedantic about it but apparently u just can’t help yourself can you?

              • @beebarfbadger@lemmy.world
                3•1 year ago

                Oh, that is not pedantry, that there is the advice that one can’t have it both ways and use a slur while at the same time insulting the reader’s intelligence by pretending “oh, I didn’t use a slur, I made that one letter look different.”