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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    I just want to point out that, nationwide, moms for liberty candidates lost 92% of the elections they were involved in. America HATES MAGA

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      Thank fucking God. They are the worst.

      Their platform is literally “ban all the books that might make you, ya know, think”

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    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

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    Kayleigh McEnany actually seemed to correctly diagnose the problem. I was shocked. And then she started in on her solution:

    Tomorrow, I want the House of Representatives passing legislation for men to pay women child support from the moment of conception, legislation to make the child tax credit apply to the unborn

    Her solution to the vast majority of Americans rejecting GOP ‘fetal personhood’ extremism is to… go right back to trying to shove fetal personhood in through a back door. They really do think everyone else is even dumber than they are.

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      Her idea to increase SNAP funds for young mothers and add child support for pregnant women isn’t that bad. The funny thing is, Republicans will never go for it. They’re not a party of policies, they’re a party that proposes “gotcha” bills that mock government and tax cuts.

      There’s no way Republicans will support any of her ideas. It’s funny that someone on Fox News doesn’t understand that.

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        The idea of creating pregnancy support and a tax credit for pregnant women is fine. The idea of expanding child support and the child tax credit to pregnant women is all about expanding the legal definition of “child” to include fetuses.

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

    • Sean Hannity

    I think the GOP did that themselves last year in regards to the 10 year old girl who had to cross state lines into Indiana to get an abortion.

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      And don’t forget the “life of the mother” exceptions in places like Texas that can only be triggered if the woman is actively dying. If she’s not close enough to death, it is still “carry it to term or else.”

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        Hey, but the doctor and all the medical staff could bet their medical licenses that the legal gray area would favor them in a particular case.

        Of course it might be harder to practice medicine after the hospital execs consult with legal and fire your ass.

        But hey, there’s an off chance that legally you could get away with saving the life of the mother before death was imminent. Well, depending on the judge in Texas that day.

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    So, I went to Faux News and looked at their front page. The very top headline is GOP Flips New York Seat Democrats Held for Decades, Causing ‘Political Earthquake’.

    This is followed by 29 more stories, including important stories like Couple’s Viral ‘Taylor Swift Jar’ Has Wife Paying Whenever She Mentions the Star and Global Study Names the World’s Booziest Nations - The Top Three Will Surprise You.

    Finally, a full 30 stories down the front page, you eventually reach After Dismal Election Night, Republican Candidates Hammer Trump.

    As an aside, it’s cute how, when they want to celebrate and promote the feeling that their party is all one big happy family, they refer to themselves as “the GOP”, but when they’re trying to distance themselves from the party, suddenly it’s “Republicans”.

    Anyway, well done, everyone!

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    “Republicans need to look at all of these numbers, and really think about what’s more important. Yes, most people that are Republicans are probably pro-life,” she stated. “And we love our babies. And I love being a mother. But what’s most important? Republicans taking over. And Republicans being able to keep our country!”

    Wasn’t expecting them to say this part out loud.

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      They’re being really blatant about it all of a sudden. Is this sort of statement effective on Republicans voters? Do they not have any sort of cognitive dissonance when hearing one of their beloved Fox and Friends anchors saying this?

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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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      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

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    You rightoid fuckers HAVE NO POLICIES outside of schadenfreude and bogeyman flavor of the month fearmongering. Conservatives are incapable of governance, and a lot more people are finally catching on.

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        In my opinion PotatoTown Tuberville and the rest of the GOP who don’t override the filibuster want to leave these positions open so they can stuff them with Christian Nationalists if they take the Senate next year.

        They don’t intend to let the next coup fail.