Saddled with a historically unpopular president and American anger over crime and inflation, Democrats still managed somehow to win the marquee races of the 2023 election season on the strength of abortion messaging, early turnout and ad spending blitzes.
The Republicans' latest disappointing election performance - from Glenn Youngkin's failed bid to capture control of the Virginia legislature to Daniel Cameron's loss of the gubernatorial mansion in deep-red Kentucky - left many on social media Tuesday night calling for GOP Party Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel to be ousted for a losing streak that stretches back to 2018 and has exposed the Republican National Committee's weaknesses on messaging and get-out-the-vote operations.
A Republican won a key race Tuesday in Long Island for the first time in two decades while Gov. Tate Reeves in Mississippi survived a tougher than expected challenge from a distant cousin of Elvis Presley.
The marquee races that could have given Republicans momentum heading into the 2024 presidential election nearly all tipped Democrats' way on Tuesday.
The most common denominator: voters preferred Democrat support for abortion rights, whether at 55% on a constitutional amendment in deep-red Ohio or from the key candidates in the state Senate races that kept Youngkin, a rising GOP star, from capturing full control of the Virginia Legislature.
Early Wednesday, Republicans were also in danger of losing control of the Virginia House of Delegates too as Democrats led in most of the undecided races.
The GOP's problems in turnout in races when Trump isn't on the ballot were also apparent in heavily red Kentucky, where Attorney General Daniel Cameron, a young black conservative endorsed by Trump and Senate leader Mitch McDonnell, was handily defeated by incumbent Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear and his 60% approval rating with state voters.
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