Column: What do the midterms — and 2024 — hold for the GOP?
LA TimesRepublicans are in a triumphalist mood. Last week’s red wave election has many in the GOP counting on a crimson tsunami come next year’s midterms and fueled even more confidence that Joe Biden will be a one-term president. Democrats can obsess all they want about alleged racist dog whistles in Virginia to explain how Glenn Youngkin, the Republican candidate for governor — and Winsome Sears, the Black Republican candidate for lieutenant governor — won so handily, flipping Democratic counties red, out-performing former President Trump’s 2020 margins everywhere, and erasing Biden’s huge margins in 2020. “If we don’t solve the Presidential Election Fraud of 2020,” Trump said last month, “Republicans will not be voting in ’22 or ’24. It’s the single most important thing for Republicans to do.” Youngkin could avoid talking about Trump’s false claims about a stolen election while running for governor without antagonizing Trump or his superfans.
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