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So What Happened With That “Red Wave?”
Results-wise, here’s what you got in the big name races:
- Vance won (red)
- Abbott won (red)
- Fetterman won (blue)
- Kemp won (red)
- Shapiro won over a major election denier (blue)
- Finchem, another major election denier, lost in Arizona (blue)
- Boebert is currently losing but projected to win (red, but oddly)
- Kari Lake is losing and it’s too close to call
- Warnock vs. Walker is too close to call
- 200+ 2020 election skeptics have won races (red)
As Time Magazine, which I did not know was still relevant or had a digital presence at all, said: “Red wave is more like a pink splash.” Politico called it “the red wave that wasn’t.”
Even some late-night, tie-off-the-collar dudes on Fox News admitted this was bad for the Republicans:
“We have the worst inflation in four decades, the worst collapse in real wages in 40 years, the worst crime wave since the 1990s, the worst border crisis in U.S…
