Do You Want a Silver Lining After Tuesday’s Elections? Here It Is.
Matt Margolis
4–5 minutes
There’s really no need to beat a dead horse on the outcome of Tuesday’s elections in Ohio, Kentucky, and Virginia. It was not a great day for Republicans, but it’s nevertheless a learning opportunity for them to understand how and why they keep losing winnable elections. Abortion was a key issue of the elections, and it’s an issue that succeeds in boosting turnout among Democrats who have been led to believe that even the most mainstream of abortion restrictions are total bans. This has given Democrats a huge boost in off-year elections.
It’s easy to feel like the GOP is doomed, but trust me, there’s always a silver lining.
If you’re in the Biden White House right now, you’re likely advising Joe Biden to make the 2024 election about abortion. Why not? It’s been working so far, right? Of course, it didn’t take Tuesday’s elections to give Democrats an epiphany about this. They’ve been all about abortion, abortion, abortion since the Dobbs v. Jackson decision was leaked early. But abortion isn’t likely to have the same impact in 2024 as it did in 2023 or even 2022.
For starters, off-year and midterm elections have much lower turnout, meaning the impact the abortion issue will have on the 2024 election will likely not be nearly as pronounced. That doesn’t mean the GOP shouldn’t fine-tune its abortion messaging, but polls have shown that the issue won’t nearly be as important in 2024 as the economy.
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