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.

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    Hannity: “Democrats are trying to scare women into thinking Republicans don’t want abortion legal under any circumstances.”

    Nah, you guys are doing just fine on that without any help at all.

    While the other cable news networks stuck with live special coverage for the rest of the evening, Fox News decided that its audience needed a break from the deflating electoral results for conservatives. After Hannity signed off at 10 p.m., Fox aired its regularly scheduled broadcast of “comedy” show Gutfeld!, which was pre-taped and didn’t make any mention of the elections.

    Gotta protect their snowflakes from any hint of reality until they can figure out how to spin it properly.

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      Nah, you guys are doing just fine on that without any help at all.

      “Damn, those democrats shat my pants again!”

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

      if your opposition’s propaganda consists solely of unedited video clips of you speaking, it’s not propaganda