For all the woes faced by Biden, his party is pulling out wins.
Supporters of Ohio Issue 1 react to the results at a watch party hosted by Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights, Nov. 7, 2023, in Columbus, Ohio.sought to embrace a showdown over the issueElection Day 2023 instead continued a losing streak for conservatives on abortion-related issues that began virtually the moment the Supreme Court tossed out Roe v. Wade last year -- extending through states that are blue, red and decidedly purple.
In solidly Republican Kentucky, Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear was projected to win reelection on Tuesday while attacking his state's no-exemptions abortion ban as extreme. That law went into effect despite voters' rejection of a constitutional amendment that sought to do the same thing. "It's a wake-up call for the Democratic Party to say, 'It's time we think about Ohio and putting it back in play,'" Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb told ABC News on Tuesday. "When you see this extreme Republican movement, a majority of folks in our state won't want these kinds of policies on the books."
The results in Ohio showed how thoroughly the statewide electorate can be remade depending on the issues at stake. Exit polls showed that voters on Tuesday night actually supported President Joe Biden over former President Donald Trump by a 45-43% margin in 2020 -- even though Biden lost the state 53-45. Self-described liberals made up 34% of the electorate, a margin unmatched in exit polls in the state going back nearly 40 years.
In that state, Republicans had led a proposed change to the rules to make it harder to pass a state constitutional amendment, only to fall far short on that over the summer -- and then lose on the abortion issue itself on Tuesday. Voters were also simultaneously projected to endorse legalization of recreational marijuana, a move also opposed by conservatives.
"It was a victory that sends a loud, clear message -- a message that candidates should run for something, and not against someone," Beshear said in his victory speech late Tuesday.
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