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.

  • Jesus_666@feddit.de
    161·
    1 year ago

    You need to keep in mind that 2023 COVID is a different beast than 2020 COVID. The currently most common strains tend to be less hard on the body as the virus has started to adapt to human hosts.

    I still wouldn’t recommend people to go unvaccinated but it’s not quite as suicidally irresponsible as it used to be. Still irresponsible, though.

    • roofuskit@lemmy.world
      152·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, but the elderly GOP base is getting it for the 2nd or 3rd time without having been vaccinated. It’s just as hard on them if not harder.

      That said I don’t think it’s moving the needle as much as MAGA politics are.

      • derphurr@lemmy.world
        45·
        1 year ago

        What bizarro world do you live in? It’s no longer a novel virus. Most boomers have been exposed or infected by COVID, also a great number (majority) of them got vaccinated. So by now there are miniscule number of boomers without natural or vaccine immunity. The vaccines boosters do little here in terms of death, because very few boomers are currently dying from COVID.

        Hospitalization rate of over 65 was

        16.4 per 100,000 during the week ending August 26 2023

        Death rate is a fraction of that.