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.
And they just officially stole both houses in Virginia's legislature. Anyone still think Younkin is the future of the GOP? He's a lame duck who will happily turn over the keys to some kid fucker come 2026. The GOP has no future. We just barely stopped them from stealing an election in deep red Mississippi.
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.
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.