2024 GOP Primary Candidates Forced to Grapple with the Party’s Election Day Failure on Abortion

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Pro-abortion supporters march during a protest after the Supreme Court issued their ruling in Dobbs in Washington, D.C., June 26, 2022.

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Tuesday night’s election results are sure to have the 2024 GOP primary contenders searching for a way out of the electoral trap the party has fallen into on abortion in the wake of Dobbs.

In Virginia, where Republicans had hoped to win unified control of the state legislature, Democrats were instead able to maintain their majority in the state senate and to reclaim the majority in the house of delegates, dealing a tough blow to Governor Glenn Youngkin’s rising national star and sounding alarms for the party’s approach to abortion.

Brittany Bernstein

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Brittany Bernstein

Brittany Bernstein is the deputy news editor of National Review Online.

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