Where’d the red wave go?

Fox News: Biden’s approval ratings suck, the country faces its highest inflation in years, the GOP had been surging in the polls. But the predicted red wave at the midterms was nowhere to be found

Fox News: Biden’s approval ratings suck, the country faces its highest inflation in years, the GOP had been surging in the polls. But the predicted red wave at the midterms was nowhere to be found

A USA Today Op has a theory: Trump messed it up. Voters aren’t into bullies who deny election results

National Review agrees: Republicans chose bad candidates. If you nominate extremists and election deniers, that’s going to isolate a lot of voters. Republicans got in their own way

The Washington Examiner thinks the Republicans did a terrible job at exciting voters -- they had sucky Trumpy candidates and a muddled message

The NYT says it was because Democratic voters showed up. Thank issues like abortion, January 6, and election denialism. Democrats thought democracy was at stake here

A Guardian Op: Yup, abortion rights carried it home for the Dems

A WSJ Op thinks it was voter migration: Dems are moving to blue states and Republicans are moving to red states

On a similar note, an NYT Op thinks the red wave was averted because Republicans and Democrats are *such* different parties. Voters are less likely to flip-flop between the two

This Chestertown Op writes that the red wave never showed up because voters don’t think inflation, gas prices, and border control is all Biden’s fault

On the other hand, Time says Zoomers stopped the red wave: Young people had a record-breaking turnout in the 2022 midterms

And The New Republic thinks it came down to a bit of dumb luck: Democrats avoided a red wave, but Republicans had a few major victories. For example, JD Vance in Ohio. And DeSantis’ massive win in Florida

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