Column: Biden as the comeback kid, Trump as the biggest loser: Takeaways from the midterm election
LA TimesA red wave fails to materialize as the abortion issue boosts Democrats and Trump’s intervention costs Republicans in several races. When Republicans lost control of the House and Senate in 2006, a humbled President George W. Bush described it as a “thumping.” Four years later, a chagrined President Obama referred to Democrats’ loss of 63 House seats as a “shellacking.” By contrast, what happened in Tuesday’s startling midterm election was more like a slap on the wrist. The biggest loser Tuesday may have been the worst day, politically, for former President Trump since October 2016, when a video surfaced of him boasting on “Access Hollywood” about sexually mauling women. The issue helped lift Democratic gubernatorial candidates to victory in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and helped Michigan Democrats hold on to the governor’s office and seize control of the Legislature.
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