It's the Brian Larra Show on WNYC. Good morning everyone. Well, it was a very interesting election night with almost everywhere in America that matter,

trending more Democrat than expected, except Eastern Long Island and the Eastern Bronx.

Suffolk County will have its first Republican county executive in 20 years.

The East Bronx will have its first Republican City Council member since the

dinosaurs roamed Pelham Parkway. But in New Jersey the projection that the

Republicans could flip one or both houses of the legislature turned out to be way wrong.

Democrats expanded their majorities.

One explanation, possibly, is that the culture war issue of abortion rights defeated the culture war issue of parental

rights to know if their kids are presenting as gay or non-binary at school.

We're still waiting to see the school board election results themselves however from the nearly 600

school districts around the state and whether the parental right to no

candidates or the teenagers right to privacy candidates will prevail in districts where that was in play.

Abortion rights though were really the big winners nationwide.

Voters in Red State, Ohio, as you probably heard, approve the abortion rights referendum there.

That'll be part of the State Constitution now.

They approved recreational marijuana legalization too in that that red state and very importantly there was Virginia

Republican governor Glenn Yunkin was hoping to flip the state legislature red in Virginia by promoting a 15 week abortion ban.

That would be a new restriction in Virginia where it's more available, but he was arguing that's

a good middle ground position that shows Democrats are the

extremists on the issue not Republicans.

So what happened?

That argument was a bust.

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