Election night 2023 was a GOP disaster, and Fox News is pissed—killing off Youngkin’s candidacy before it existed and telling Republicans to set aside their abortion fixation.

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.

  • @Serinus
    9•1 year ago

    It’s kind of amazing how much the military still leans right after all the Trump shit.

    The draft dodging, the incredible disrespect for the military, the obscene bullshit like the hurricane marker incident, the dictator worship, the subservience to Putin, and of course the coup. I would think military people would be better at recognizing incompetence at least.

    • @Sterile_TechniqueEnglish
      7•1 year ago

      A couple redditers put together a list of links to articles highlighting each of Trump’s attacks on our own military, from policy to just disrespectful shit like his “I lIkE pEopLe wHo wErn’T cApTUrEd.”

      Ignoring the shit he did against every other slice of our nation, and JUST focusing on things that hurt the military/vets, there had to be around a hundred links.

      I definitely converted a few people with that list.

      But yeah, the right’s kool-aid is a potent drug - it’s easy to just keep chugging without question.

        • @Sterile_TechniqueEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          No, the original got deleted. Looks like there have been a few attempts to recreate it though: found one that looks decent, but reddit’s being fucky with the comments actually showing up in the thread they were posted - it’s a 3 part post and only one shows up, but if you look at the user’s comment history you can see them all back to back. This link should bring you to the correct page, ctrl+F “PT 3 -.-” to jump to it. It’s reverse chronological, so the the pt 3 is the last, with the 2nd and 1st appearing under it.

          Infact, fuggit, I hate directing traffic to reddit, and I’ve got the pages open now. Gimme a min and I’ll just get the list + links over as a post here.

          Edit - Here ya go:

          https://lemmy.world/post/8041636