#2025-elections

#2025-elections

TAC Right Now: The Right Fights over Fuentes, the Left Wins Elections TAC staffers discuss the week's events. Andrew Day, Sumantra Maitra, and Joseph Addington discuss the election night "blue-bath" and whether the GOP must transform to survive. Then, they discuss Kevin Roberts' defense of Tucker Carlson from attacks over an interview with Nick Fuentes. Recorded November 5, 2025. More like this

Democrats, furious about President Donald Trump's remaking of American government and society, turned out in extraordinary numbers for an off-year election to sweep virtually every competitive election on the map. The results served as a rebuke of Trump and his Republican Party and a salve for Democrats who have not had many good nights in the past year. Next will come a fierce, yearlong fight,

In the Commonwealth of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, bro, what are you spending time in Iowa [for]? You just ended your political career last night. As a native Virginian, you destroyed, you, destroyed the Republican Party for a generation. There are seats in the House of Delegates that are unfathomable that were lost last night, to a supermajority, a super majority in the House. Bannon raged at Youngkin for backing Earle-Sears, whom Bannon called a Trump-hating disaster.

When the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade more than three years ago, unleashing a wave of state-level abortion bans, the justices catapulted abortion rights to the top of US voters' minds. The issue has dominated every election cycle since and 2025 is no different. The gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia could have sweeping consequences for abortion access in two states that have become havens for women fleeing abortion bans. In Pennsylvania, what should have been a relatively sleepy judicial-retention election has evolved into the most expensive race of its kind in nearly 50 years, largely due to heated fighting over abortion.