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This is Michael Cohen, and you're listening to the Mayor Culper podcast.

Yesterday's GOP victory in Virginia and a too close call race in New Jersey

offer a potential preview of the horror show awaiting Democrats in next year's midterm elections

should they fail to heed what amounts to a very urgent wake-up call.

Glenn Yonkin has been elected governor of Virginia defeating Democrat Terry McCallough.

Yonkin pulling off a critical victory for his party in the highest stakes election of the night.

This is the first time. Republicans have won an election for Virginia's top office in 12 years.

I will tell you somebody in high up in McCullough's camp that was there with McCallough, put it this way to me about an hour ago. It's a bloodbath.

For the past five years, Democrats rode record-breaking turnouts to victory, fueled by voters with a

passion for ousting a president they viewed as incompetent, divisive, and fucking dangerous.

Today's results show the limitations of such resistance politics

when the object of resistance is out of power, the failure of Democrats to fulfill many of their biggest

campaign promises, and the still simmering rage over a pandemic that transforms schools into some of the country's most divisive political

battlegrounds. What had been planned as a typical school board meeting in Virginia's wealthy

Loudoun County this week devolved into pandemonium.

Shame on you! Shame on you! With hundreds of parents flooding an auditorium to accuse the school system of teaching their kids that racism in America is structural and systemic.

Perhaps most strikingly, the crushing setbacks for Democrats in heavily suburban Virginia and New Jersey hinted at a conservative stoke backlash to the changing mores around race

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