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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Republicans Fall Short on Election Day 2023

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin ends up with a Democratic Legislature, voters in Kentucky re-elect Gov. Andy Beshear over the GOP's Daniel Cameron, and Ohio enshrines abortion in its state constitution. Does the success of Joe Biden's party buoy his prospects for 2024, and how will Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis and company react at the coming Republican debate in Miami? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

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A good night for Democrats on Election Day 2023 as they retake the Virginia House, hold the

0:46.1

Kentucky Governor's Mansion, and put abortion into the Ohio Constitution.

0:50.4

And the 2024 Republican presidential candidates set to debate tonight in Miami are already jockeying over the party's disappointment.

0:59.0

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

1:02.0

We are joined today again by my colleagues

1:05.0

editorial board members Kate Batchelder O'Dell and Manet Uquebuwa. Kate let's start in

1:11.7

Virginia Governor Glenn

1:13.1

Yunken has high approval ratings has put a lot of political capital on the line

1:17.3

trying to retake the State House paving the way for the passage of a

1:22.4

Glenn Yunken agenda and it looks like he is going to have instead a frustrating next two years.

1:28.4

Can you give us a sense of what the results in the State house races are looking like.

1:32.8

So Gleneyakin did put a lot on the line to try to flip the state senate and I think he deserves

1:37.6

credit for that for making a real run at it and incumbent governors tend to lose seats in midterms.

1:43.4

That's just how political gravity works.

1:45.5

And there were some reasons here that we were discussing yesterday

1:48.0

why flipping the state Senate was going to be really tough for Governor

1:52.0

Junken of seven swing districts for the state Senate.

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