The results were a continuation of the narrative of midterm contests a year ago. The Democrats also got the better of the GOP as well as a series of special elections. This election abortion rights have been protected at the ballot box.
SMT-11 | Republicans on Tuesday decisively lost key electoral matchups across the country that came down to one issue over and over again: abortion. But even as some in the GOP spent Wednesday licking their wounds and reconsidering their strategy, it remains to be seen whether the party’s slate of presidential hopefuls – set to take the stage for their third debate – got the message.
Competitive races in Ohio, Virginia and Kentucky that directly or tangentially involved reproductive rights all slipped away from Republicans in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn a woman’s guaranteed rights to an abortion. The results were a continuation of the narrative of midterm contests a year ago in which Democrats also got the better of the GOP as well as a series of special elections in which abortion rights have been protected at the ballot box.