governors, obviously extremely left wing, how did they survive? in michigan, prop 3, an abortion bill. it got all of the abortion people out to vote for gretchen whitmer and turned abortion in an issue in michigan when tudor dixon was talking about covid. gretchen whitmer is the worse governor in america on covid now that andrew cuomo is gone. so there was a mixed opportunity there. voters were kind of looking at a different issue than our side won it. but, you know, kathy hochul, i can t describe how disappointing it was other than to say, that s new york. and it s a tough place laura: molly, going to go to you on this. back to the hochul thing. it can t be stressed enough how important it was that lee zeldin campaigned all across the state. like we have a 50-state strategy
gop this cycle. now, this is the future of the republican party. second point, the 50-state strategy continues to be the best hope for the gop going forward. now, we just don t have enough power right now to stop the hard left. and we can t get more power by staying home and running up big margins in close states. that s not going to work. but lee zeldin, think about this, given no chance for most of the year, he came within five points of beating hochul. that was the best showing for any new york republican in 20 years. now, as i predicted last night, that performance, five-point margin helped republicans flip four democrat seats in the house. this sent aoc in to app lexty today. real progress in liberal strong holds keeps the republican party in growth mode. that s the message. in liberal oregon, christine drazen is down 3% from radical leftist tina kotek in the
now, while the late broke really appears to have broken toward republicans, you can see in the exit polls and the vote count for election day, the democrats appeared to have done very well. at getting a lot of votes before election day. so, look, if everyone had voted yesterday, we might have seen the red wave that was being picked up in some of the polls. but we don t have election day anymore. it s more like election month. and that means that going forward, the gop cannot count from on this coming from behind strategy in states like new york or virginia or michigan or even pennsylvania. the democrats are going to be ready to start turning out their voters on the first day of early voting. okay? and republicans going forward are going to have to do the same. they did in this in miami dade county. that was fantastic. we got a lot of republicans voting early in miami day. but the old turnout models just don t work anymore, they just don t. also, you need to be in the
gop this cycle. now, this is the future of the republican party. second point, the 50-state strategy continues to be the best hope for the gop going forward. now, we just don t have enough power right now to stop the hard left. and we can t get more power by staying home and running up big margins in close states. that s not going to work. but lee zeldin, think about this, given no chance for most of the year, he came within five points of beating hochul. that was the best showing for any new york republican in 20 years. now, as i predicted last night, that performance, five-point margin helped republicans flip four democrat seats in the house. this sent aoc in to app lexty today. real progress in liberal strong holds keeps the republican party in growth mode. that s the message. in liberal oregon, christine drazen is down 3% from radical leftist tina kotek in the
realclear po clear politics. tom , so i m we re already talking about twenty , i twenty four . but this is going to be quite something, is it not? and another opportunity for republicans to get this right. you the map in 2020 fouri thn is actually very good for republicans. i think they re just they re defendin dg very few seats. i think the top democratic top target on that list for democrats was was rick scott, who barely won his, wh race oust bill nelson. but given what happened in florida last nightappene , theyy want to rethink that strategy. and then you go down the list, braun in indiana, marsha blackburn and tennessee, these ara, marshe safe seats.s. josh holly in missouri, these are seats that republicans could easily hold on to. ted cruz is going to draw a loto of attention and especiallyesid during a presidential year, hees was in a fairl iy close race lat time around against beto o rourke. so i suspect cruz will broure o. but the democrats are defendingt an awful lot of t