{"id":967909,"date":"2021-11-04T13:59:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T17:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=967909"},"modified":"2021-11-04T13:59:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T17:59:49","slug":"professor-weighs-in-on-democrat-defeats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/professor-weighs-in-on-democrat-defeats\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor weighs in on Democrat defeats"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprofessor-weighs-in-on-democrat-defeats%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=967909&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2571058\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2571058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin holds a broom as he greets supporters at an election night party in Chantilly, Va., early Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021, after he defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe. (AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 10:40 AM PT \u2013 Thursday, November 4, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Democrats may control the White House, but Republican campaigns <em>built back better<\/em>. The party won the offices of governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and a majority of the General Assembly in Virginia on Tuesday. They also came within one percent of taking the governor\u2019s mansion in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>These are two states Joe Biden won by 10-points and 16-points respectively in 2020. Though some could brush these outcomes as a fluke, University of Virginia Professor Larry Sabato believes this may be a sign of things to come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very high DEFCON rating for Democrats, that\u2019s what this small midterm election was,\u201d he stated. \u201cAnd unless Democrats have a major course correction in the White House and Congress, it\u2019s going to be the same DEFCON rating next year for the midterm elections nationally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sabato believes the elections were a referendum for democrats on a federal level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say Joe Biden\u2019s low ratings and the absolute inability of the Democrats in Congress to get their act together and to do so in the most embarrassing way possible in public\u2026had an impact,\u201d he continued. \u201cThere\u2019s no question, it depressed the Democratic vote. And the Republican vote, meanwhile, was sky high.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sabato, a critic of President Donald Trump, believes the 45th president would have hurt Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin had he been heavily involved in the campaign. He believes the Youngkin campaign courted Trump in a way future campaigns could emulate for success moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have to keep Trump\u2019s voters on their side by not being too offensive to Trump, but at the same time, in order to win the independents and to win enough votes maybe even from a slice of Democrats, they have to keep Trump, I would say, more than arm\u2019s length,\u201d said the professor.<\/p>\n<p>Sabato now looks for the Democrats to develop a new strategy in next year\u2019s midterms. If they don\u2019t, he believes they may suffer defeats similar to Terry McAuliffe.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sen-paul-takes-steps-to-ensure-veracity-of-fauci-testimony-thursday\/\">Sen. Paul Takes Steps To Ensure Veracity Of Fauci Testimony Thursday<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin holds a broom as he greets supporters at an election night party in Chantilly, Va., early Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021, after he defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":1898191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}