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.
Oh yeah, absolutely. No doubt. But they would never have gotten this far without Putin’s Internet Research Agency and the constant flow of misinformation and propaganda that is still flowing unchecked into all our media and digital interactions. It’s still Putin’s coup.
And I would add that if “Coach” Tuberville were to get run over by a passing truck of consequences tomorrow, another coup plotter would instantly rise up to take his place in blocking military promotions. “For the children,” they would say.
Truer words were never spoken.