Youngkin won’t have the opportunity to sign a 15-week abortion ban into Virginia law. But that doesn’t mean it was a political mistake for Virginia Republicans to support a 15-week ban or that Republicans in other states should run away from one. In many cases, Republican candidates who supported that limit on abortion were able to withstand attacks over it and win in light-blue areas. If Republicans nationally could advance as deep into Biden territory as Virginia Republicans just did, they would win the 2024 elections comfortably.
That’s from my Washington Post column, which goes into some reasons I think the lessons of the Virginia (and Ohio) elections are being misread.