It’s election day in many states across the country, and the media will try desperately to tell you what the results “mean” in regards to President Donald Trump, Republicans, and the politics of the government shutdown. Get your boots on, it’s going to get thick and deep, plus it’s going to smell like you’d imagine the green room at MSNBC smelling – the kind of stench that haunts your dreams.
Allow me to save you all the time and hassle of listening to the analysis and tell you what it all means now: Either nothing or everything.
What the hell does that mean? It’s pretty simple, really.
The “big” races in New Jersey, New York City, and Virginia all heavily favor Democrats, so any wins there will mean Democrats still vote for Democrats.
In NYC, it’s a matter of just how many New Yorkers favor a lunatic over a jerk. It’s hard for me to care, but I think it would be hilarious if Andrew Cuomo won. Think about the deflated left on election night in 2016 as Donald Trump was declared the President-Elect – all that footage of leftists in absolute shock and disbelief. Now square it, then cube it, and you start to get close.
Democrats were more excited about which bathroom Hillary Clinton used than they were excited about her as a person. This was, of course, back when Democrats knew what a woman was. So the loss was less about her and more about identity politics and the concept of a female president. (Democrats have this weird belief that society prevents a certain type of person from doing things until they actually do them, which strikes me as having very low expectations of both the American public and those people, but whatever.)
If Zohran Mamdani wins, it won’t be a surprise, but if he loses, it will be a reckoning for the radical left. Don’t count on that; it is New York City, after all.
In New Jersey, on the other hand, there very well could be a shock. If Democrat Mikie Sherrill loses, or even barely wins, it will be a sign that the coalition President Trump put together last year to win his election is holding. Republican Jack Ciattarelli has run before and ended up a lot closer than anyone expected last time. After four more years of Democrats sucking and screwing up the state, will another bite at the apple be the one that does the trick?
If Ciattarelli wins, it will give Republicans another 90-10 issue to campaign on: plastic bags. As leftists ban them everywhere, people are sick of the paper or reusable petri dish bags they force us to use now, something Ciattarelli has campaigned on.
Jersey is a blue state that has been getting sick of the policies and the prices of policies from Democrats. It’s not quite red – the last Republican was Chris Christie, so….but that doesn’t mean it can’t flip. Maryland has elected Republicans to be 2 of its last 4 governors, so anything is possible.
That leads us to Virginia, where the current Governor is a Republican and won largely because the Democrats nominated an awful person in the former Governor Terry McAuliffe, the Clinton family money man. He was so horrible the first time, and so tone deaf on the issues that mattered to voters (parental rights, boys in girls' bathrooms) that a pretty conservative guy beat him.
Can his Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears beat a Democrat that the entire left-wing establishment is desperate to elect so they can redistrict the state in their favor? Maybe.
It’s kind of funny watching Barack Obama stump for Abigail Spanberger a year after lecturing black men on how they had to vote for Kamala Harris because of her skin color, campaign against a black woman on behalf of someone so white they could easily pass as a missing sister to Johnny and Edgar Winter (look it up). Identity politics matters…until it doesn’t, it seems.
Democrats are expected to win all of these and, if they do, they will pretend it is some kind of rejection of Donald Trump and Republicans, when the reality is, in those states anyway, it will be as predictable as the Harlem Globetrotters beating the Washington Generals.
But sometimes the Washington Generals do win. Be realistic, but always hope.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.