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.

  • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
    215·
    1 year ago

    Hannity also groused that Republicans’ push to ban abortion in states across the country, as well as the reversal of the federal right to abortion, meant that “Democrats are trying to scare women into thinking Republicans don’t want abortion legal under any circumstances.”

    When Republicans keep saying things like “total abortion ban”, yeah, we get that impression.

    edit: fucking Texas is trying to make it illegal to drive to get around their abortion ban

      • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
        22·
        1 year ago

        Sometimes I wish we could go back to when they were mainly known for open beverage containers, but it was pretty fucked then too.

        • RedAggroBest@lemmy.world
          7·
          1 year ago

          Every time I see Texas in the news I say a little prayer for the man who my Greatx4 (5?) Grandfather, who definitely had some looser morals around things like murder and escaping prison twice, shot. If it weren’t for their unfortunate ass, my family might still be in that awful place.

    • Bizarroland@kbin.social
      32·
      1 year ago

      Fucking Texas made it so that someone that presents male, whom all of their classroom mates referred to as he, can’t participate in a high school play as a male character.

      • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
        20·
        1 year ago

        Not a violent person but I genuinely want to break things whenever I’m reminded of that. Just unbelievable from every direction, from people who preach about caring for children.

        • Tolos@lemmy.world
          20·
          1 year ago

          Republicans have never cared about children.

          Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren’t they? They’re all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you’re born, you’re on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don’t want to know about you. They don’t want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re preborn, you’re fine; if you’re preschool, you’re fucked.

          • George Carlin
          • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
            7·
            1 year ago

            Classic stuff. He was so dead on accurate for then and now, and even he probably wouldn’t believe where things are today. We would get some epic rants.

            edit: man, it’s hard to believe he’s been gone 15 years. The shit that’s happened since then.

    • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
      25·
      1 year ago

      Democrats are trying to scare women into thinking Republicans don’t want abortion legal under any circumstances

      Oh hun, you don’t need to blame Democrats for that. You’re spreading that message quite clearly yourselves.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Yep. It turns out that a great many people don’t fall for their bullshit gaslighting.

      ETA: Also, I think everyone given a chance to interact with Klannity should always ask when he’s going to be waterboarded.