A year after promising viewers a ā€œred tsunamiā€ 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 stateā€™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 stateā€™s General Assembly. Instead, not only were Youngkinā€™s hopes of a Republican sweep dashed, but the Democrats now control both chambers.

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      Weā€™ve been talking about this since COVID hit. Theyā€™re too fucking stupid to accept the truth.

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        I remember how the cons were cynically thinking it was going to hit the ā€œurbanā€ people harder and the worst among them were cheering that on. Whooooops.

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          Theyā€™re always thinking that the world is more dumb than they are and hilariously never coming to the realization that itā€™s because theyā€™re so dumb that they think that.