Playbook: “He helped saddle the GOP with poor candidates, and he assisted the White House in its goal of turning the midterms into a choice between unpopular Biden and deeply unpopular Trump. Democrats lost blue-collar voters and gained white-collar voters in the Trump years. In some places, that has been a bad trade. But on Tuesday, it may have benefited Democrats, as their new anti-Trump supporters outperformed their former voters now on Team MAGA.”
“Meanwhile, the two breakout Republican stars of the night are Trump enemies. Gov. Brian Kemp, who stood up to Trump’s attempts to overturn the results in Georgia in 2020, easily defeated Democrat Stacey Abrams. In Florida, where Republicans dominated the state, Gov. Ron DeSantis crushed Charlie Crist by nearly 20 points — and actually broke through with voting groups that don’t traditionally support the GOP.”
