I expected Republicans to win competitive governorships, the House easily and be favored to win the Senate.
First we actually lost nearly every fucking single competitive governor race.
I am stunned that we lost all of these so called competitive governor races: Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Kansas, New Mexico, Maine, Oregon.
I thank God that we somehow won governorships in Iowa, Ohio, Texas, Georgia and did amazing in the Florida governor race.
Kari Lake might even lose. I am livid. How the fuck does this happen?
We lost congressional house districts today in places that I never thought we would lose this year. We lost tossup congress races in fucking Ohio.
The Senate is a nightmare. Oz lost to Fetterman without the Dems even stopping the count and flooding it with mail in ballots.
Dems likely going to keep the Senate
We barely flip the House at this rate. I swear if we somehow fail to flip the House.
Today was worse than 2020.
I thank God that in my state, Texas, Republicans atleast won every statewide race.
Ronna McDaniel, Rick Scott, Kevin McCarthy, Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump all fucked up massively with messaging, candidate selection and cohesion.
The impact of the repeal of Roe v Wade, 1/6, Trump's shitty primary picks and woke college educated whites turning out massively harmed us so much.
You know, the only person of note I heard calling for a nationwide abortion ban this election cycle was Mitch McConnell, who pretty obviously has an interest & preference in remaining in opposition over potentially having to deal with a slate of America-First senators and has actively sabotaged them (ex. Masters, Bolduc) with more than just words where he could. Even the most hardline bans still include exemptions for the life of the mother, and from a realpolitik POV, they also only happened in states that were already staunchly conservative like OK.
A 15-week abortion ban even just on the state level, with exemptions, was IMPOSSIBLE as long as Roe v. Wade remained in force. The whole point of that case was that it unilaterally legalized abortion across all states, without a single vote outside of the nine Justices who decreed that it be so. It was impossible to do anything beyond curtailing the most extreme practices which only the demonically possessed could tolerate in the first place, such as partial-birth abortion, so long as that ruling stood.