Even before the results of Virginia’s gubernatorial election were decided, it seemed clear that the Democrats were headed towards disaster in the 2022 midterm elections. But now that Glenn Youngkin has been declared the winner, the Democrats’ fate is essentially sealed.
Although President Joe Biden was victorious in Virginia, Youngkin and Winsome Sears were able to win significant victories. This is not surprising to anyone who has followed politics in the recent years.
However, it is not just Youngkin’s victory that serves as a preview for what we can expect this time next year. The New Jersey gubernatorial election is still not decided, despite incumbent Democratic Governor. Phil Murphy was the favorite to win. The closeness of the particular race does not bode well for Democratic Party, even if Murphy wins.
The results of Virginia are not to be overlooked. However, the Virginia results cannot be ignored. Associated PressIt should be noted that:
Virginia governors have a limited term. Elections in odd-numbered year are also held. This makes Virginia the best place to gauge voter sentiment prior to midterms. It is usually used to warn the party at power in Washington, and this year it was.
The author of the piece also seems to realize that McAuliffe’s loss is an indicator of what will happen next year. He said:
The margin of victory for Democrats in Congress is only five votes, while the Senate has a one-vote advantage. In the past, Congress has almost always been won by the party in power. If 2022 is any indication of Virginia 2021 nationally, Democrats could lose much more seats than usual.
What this particular race reveals about the overall political landscape is that the Democrats’ usual line of attack is no longer effective. It exposed serious flaws in the left’s approach to winning over the public.
McAuliffe and his White House colleagues tried to make Trump the topic during the campaign. McAuliffe tried to link Youngkin with Trump, and to show that he was not the fringe element who took part in the Riot at the U.S. Capitol. This is an error, at least according to some of the Left. A Democratic operative told CNN that “McAuliffe relied too much on Trump in absence of anything else” and that this “was a mistake.”
However, there is another element of yesterday’s results that is flying under the radar. One of the issues on which people voted demonstrated that the hard left’s anti-police agenda is not popular with the American public. In Minneapolis, voters voted against a measure that would abolish the city’s police department and replace it with whatever folderal the hard left would come up with.
In fact, crime rates rose precipitously since the decision by the city council to cut funding for the police. This puts residents at risk. It can be no wonder that the people most affected by this voted against a further dismantling of the city’s law enforcement agency. This trend wasn’t just in Minneapolis.
In New York City, Eric Adams handily defeated his opponent in the mayor’s race. This is because Adams was actually nominated. Adams ran with a unapologetically law-and-order platform, and vowed to eliminate crime. The contrast was stark to progressives also running for the mayor’s office.
America doesn’t support reducing the number of officers assigned to their communities. They do not favor injecting far-left wokeism into the nation’s classrooms. Many people are becoming tired of COVID-19’s restrictive requirements.
These are but a small number of the many issues that the Democrats seem to be out of touch on. This, combined with the fact that President Joe Biden continues to botch every crisis he attracts, portends that next year’s elections might go even worse for the left than what people previously believed. Also, the fact that Democratic lawmakers failed to pass any meaningful legislation isn’t helping.
This trend could continue, and the Republicans may be able to gain huge gains in the House. They could also retake the Senate. This would be the proverbial death blow to Biden’s radical agenda and would prevent the Democrats from moving the country further left. It would set up the GOP for a 2024 return to the White House. The Republicans might even be able to run Bugs Bunny and win.
Now the question is, what will Republicans do after they are elected to office?
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