Republicans are likely to lose both governor’s seats and state legislatures, and they might fail to gain a single Senate seat. Here’s how unusual that is.
Oregon’s largest newspaper has declared Democrat Tina Kotek the winner of that state’s governor’s race. While the race hasn’t yet been called by other news media, Kotek’s victory would be significant nationally: It would assure that Democrats would actually gain ground in the 2022 governors’ races.
And that’s hardly the only evidence of a historic Republican underperformance in the 2022 midterms.
As we’ve emphasized many times, midterms are almost always good for the party that doesn’t control the White House. But this one has clearly not been — in multiple ways.
Republicans will still likely grab a narrow majority in the House, but it also seems likely they will fail to gain seats at every other major level.
