Kentucky governor: Andrew Beshear(D) has won re-election. Daniel Cameron couldn't win against Beshear in a solid red state. Cameron ran a mediocre campaign that solely focused on his Trump endorsement.
Republicans still managed to win all of the downballot offices: SOS, AG, Treasurer and Agriculture commissioner.
The sad truth is that we probably shouldn't run a Black man as the GOP candidate in a southern state like Kentucky.
Ohio: Dems have won yet another abortion referendum in a red state. GOP needs to stop fucking having these referendums. Clear that abortion is sadly popular nationwide. Abortion is clearly a losing issue for Republicans.
Virginia Legislature: The Dems have kept the State Senate denying Governor Youngkin and the Republicans a tri-fecta.
Pretty terrible night for Republicans all around.
Losing Virginia sucks but you have to realize that the state is sadly blue. Democrats have won Virginia at the Presidential level since 2008.
Youngkin winning in 2021 required a lot of factors to align. Dems run a shit candidate, GOP ran a great candidate and the Dems lost.
Youngkin missed out on the trifecta today by one seat in the State Senate and one seat in the State House in a Biden +11 state.
Youngkin is a phenomenal politician that did the best he could in a blue state.
The GOP can absolutely learn how to message on key issues in swing states from Youngkin.
The House and the Senate in VA was lost because it is still a blue state that only goes red at the statewide level when the stars align and the Democrats run a bad candidate and the GOP runs a great candidate like Youngkin.
We didn't lose every race today because they were all rigged.
Cameron lost KY because he ran a mediocre campaign and likely because he was a Black man running in the South.
Reeves still won MS governor but it was close because Brandon Presley ran a good campaign where he pretended to be moderate.
PA Supreme Court was lost because Dems hammered us on abortion.
We clearly lost the Ohio referendum on abortion because the public sadly wants abortion to be legal.
There were some shady elections in 2020 and 2022 but tonight there was not a result where mail in ballots gave the Dems a win.
It is a copout to blame tonight's failures on rigged elections.
We lost so many races because the GOP position on abortion is hated by the electorate and the Dems weaponize it against us.
Additionally, we probably lost because people just didnt show up. I saw that in Ohio, the amount of Dem voters was largely the same as the 2020 election, but Rep voters were half of what they had been.
This "blaming everything on rigged elections" is starting to be a self-fulfilling prophecy, and people really need to stop or less this will keep happening.
Why is passing and enforcing election security laws to restore people's confidence in the system never an option? We don't have these problems in Florida and Texas.
I didn’t say it wasn’t. What I am saying is you shouldn’t allow the lack of such laws to keep you from voting. “But what if they cheat?!” Then that is one more vote they have to override.
That's fair, I personally vote in midterm and presidential elections even though I question what good it does. I tend to skip odd year elections, but my state doesn't have big off cycle stuff going on. I'm just sick of people neglecting the one thing that might save the GOP from extinction. Every year we bring a knife to a gun fight, and way too many people are convinced that we keep losing because we didn't train enough or we're picking the wrong knives.
Maga cultists gonna cultist. You can explain this until the sun burns out, they still won't believe you.
We'll believe you once we see evidence that "electable" non-MAGA candidates do any better than "Maga cultists". But they get slaughtered along with the MAGAs. And FFS not everyone who refuses to buy leftist lies about election integrity is some Trump cultist. I wanted to believe that candidate quality made a difference and I was a DeSantis supporter long before it was cool. Shit, I even voted for some RINO in the midterm primaries because I knew a Trump endorsement would be the kiss of death in my deep blue shithole. None of it mattered. The "electable" candidates got bent over the sink along with the MAGAs, and the same thing happened this year.
The problem is I don't have a year to get enough evidence to prove you wrong, but it's just about paying any amount of attention to literally anything.
We lost PA and az because of muh fraud and sucking off trump. Ks had issues because people bitched about abortion.
You know what wins? Crime and education, and not crying about fraud.
Yeah, nothing shady about extending the voting time in a city full of subhumans that vote pedo in exchange for gibs.
This argument would be more credible if these close calls didn't almost always go in the Dem's favor. The fact that Republicans pretty much never win when the margin is that close is suspicious as fuck.
This would be believable if we were only getting fucked on abortion referendums themselves. With Imp being right about women and a glut of simps lining up to cater to their every whim you're correct about the public's views on abortion. The problem is Republicans are getting slaughtered regardless of the political environment. It doesn't matter who the president is, what the economy is like, or how open the uniparty is about wanting to fuck your kids. The GOP gets fucked in the ass no matter what, then they beg for more unless their name is Donald Trump or Kari Lake.
I will say that there was election outcome affecting fraud in AZ, GA, WI, MI, PA in the 2020 Presidential election.
There was likely outcome affecting fraud in the AZ Gov election and AZ AG election in 2022.
In all of these elections the vote counters actually kept "finding" mail in ballots until the Dems won the race.
Today nothing like that happened. In which race today did they have the GOP candidate leading but the Dem still won after mail in ballots being dumped?
The outcomes of the races were known to us today on the night of the election. There was no midnight ballot dumps changing the outcome.
What happened today is clearly not fraud.
We lost many races today because the GOP's abortion stance is this vehemently hated by the degenerate electorate.
We cannot just say that every election we lose is stolen.
We must learn from our mistakes and change our messaging on abortion. We cannot win any swing race if our candidates get classified as restricting abortion.
We need to message better and not have our candidates painted as religious lunatics who want to control women's wombs.
This is what the electorate sadly thinks about many of our candidates.
True, but the pundit I listened to this morning was also blaming "messaging."
I hate to say it, it's not them messaging, abortion restriction are a loser almost everywhere. End of story.
If Republicans want to get control of the issue they need a clear policy at the state and national level (not national LAWS, but the agreement within the party). That's not going to happen. Repubs depend too much on religious absolutists on the abortion issue.
You do realize that abortion is the only thing keeping the population of “subhumans” (as you call them) in check, right?