Republicans Fall Short on Election Day 2023
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 8 November 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:28.8 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:38.0 | 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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