Yep, then Dobbs happened, and dims ran 24/7 ads that the GOP was gooing to invoke back alley abortions.
That is why the GOP needs to seize and control the narrative. Problem is that the complicit MSM won't let that happen.
I won’t deny that that Supreme Court decision probably had a factor. But that decision came in June 2022, and even as late as September or October polls were predicting a Republican red wave.
I think it was Joe Biden’s “MAGA Republican” speech that changed the GOP’s fortunes along with left wing groups promoting Trump endorsed candidates in their primaries who won the primaries but lost their general elections. And people like Ron DeSantis, Brian, Kemp, and even our own senator Ron Johnson, who have a more restrictive view on abortion than probably the average American, still won their reelections.