The GOP’s horrible, no good, very dangerous week

The information had all been dangerous for the Democrats — till it wasn’t. Current polling has proven President Joe Biden’s approval drifting downwards and, most worryingly, beneath Donald Trump’s in 5 out of six battleground states. This led to the marginally belated realisation amongst senior social gathering figures that it might need been a good suggestion to give you a substitute for an more and more shaky-looking (in each sense) candidate whose 2020 victory is considered a vastly profitable compromise. Then got here Tuesday.

Enter… ladies

There was a flurry of gubernatorial, state legislature, mayoral and different native workplace elections, in addition to a collection of citizen initiatives. The Democrats vastly outperformed expectations — and it appears to largely have come right down to reproductive rights. Greater than a 12 months after Roe vs Wade was overturned by the Supreme Courtroom and state legislatures set about dismantling entry to abortion, voters, even in largely conservative states, have responded.

Andy Beshear, the incumbent Democratic governor in Kentucky, essentially the most crimson pink of states, simply beat Daniel Cameron, his MAGA-endorsed opponent. Beshear’s marketing campaign largely centred on portray Cameron as an extremist on abortion.