There is no way to sugarcoat the fact that Republicans were duped in the midterm elections. The race ratings from the Cook Political Report, the overconfident statements from GOP leaders, and all the polls that we reported showing Republican candidates gaining ground in the closing days of their campaigns were all significantly overly optimistic about what we all saw unfold on Tuesday night. Although there were some GOP successes, like those of Ron DeSantis and Marco Rubio in Florida, J.D. Vance in Ohio, Ted Budd in North Carolina, Brian Kemp in Georgia, and Jen Kiggans in Virginia, conservatives were given…
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