Let’s Be Thankful for One Moment, Democracy Won the Midterms
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November 15, 2022
Just like the confluence of Bernie Sanders, Russian bots, and showboating Comey cost Hillary Clinton the 2016 election, the intersection of abortion, Gen Z voting, and democracy hanging in the balance gave Democrats the Senate in the 2022 midterm elections.
Nancy Pelosi commented in an interview that after the attack on her husband, Paul Pelosi, by a deranged QAnon follower that nearly cost him his life, people approached her and said, “I wasn’t going to vote, but now I am. This has gone too far."
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