Ɖ Gardịn vy on ɖ YS midtrm rzults: ɖ red wev ɖt wz’nt
(Transcription of a Guardian editorial of 9 Nov. 2022)
Ɖ Rpublicnz férd wrs ɖn xpctd, bt ɖ ćaḷnjz fr ɖoz hu cer abt funḍmntl rîts rmen imns
Wnzde 9 Nvmbr 2022
Sm setbacs cǎnt olmst az gd nyz. Clirli, ɖ Deṃcrats hv lost grǎnd in ɖ midtrmz. Ẃl it me b wīcs bfr cntrol v ɖ Senit z dtrmind, f Jorja gz t a runof, ɖ Rpublicnz stl apir lîcli t tec ɖ Hǎs, ɖo mor naroli ɖn hopt. Ɖe wl yz cntrol t mîr ɖ admiṇstreśn in lejsḷtiv dedloc n cmiti invstgeśnz. Hî-profîl Deṃcrats sć az Stesi Ebṛmz in Jorja n Beto O’Rurc in Texs wr olso īẓli dfitd.
Bt ɖs wz “defiṇtli nt a Rpublicn wev, ɖt z fr darn śr”, ɖ seṇtr Linzi Greym acnolijd az rli rzults cem in on Tyzde nît. Ɖ sns v ɖ GOP fōlñ śort z nt jst abt prīpoul punditri. Jo Bîdn me b on trac fr ɖ bst pformns bî an incumbnt in ɖ midtrmz sins 2002, ẃn Jorj W Bś injoid xtrordnri popylaṛti in ɖ wec v Sptmbr 11. Mr Bîdn’z apruvlretñz r mīdiocr at bst, ʈancs in larj part t hî infleśn. Yt ɖ prezidnt apirz t hv dn marcidli betr ɖn Barack Obama dd in 2010 on similr figrz.
It wz olso a bad nît fr Doṇld Trump, xpctd t dcler hiz 2024 canddsi ɖs wīc. Ɖr wl b an incrist Maga cōc̣s in ɖ Hǎs (gvñ Cevin MCarʈi, cuṛntli mnoṛtilīdr, a hedec). Bt ẃl ɖ formr prezidnt’s s’port me b criticl in prîṃriz, it lcs les hlpfl in jenṛl ilex́nz. Tru, JD Vans wún hiz Senit rês in Ohîo; bt ɖ Deṃcrat Jon Feṭmn flipt Pnṣlveńa, dfitñ Mehmet Óz, n in Miśign, ɖ guvnr Grećn Ẃitmr sw of ɖ ćalinj fṛm Tydr Dixn. Tū Rpublicn vicṭriz wr olmst az unwelcm t Mr Trump: ɖ riilex́n v Jorja’z guvnr, Brayn Cmp, hu dfaid hiz preśr t oṿtrn ɖ rzults in ɖ stet in 2020, n ispeṣ́li ɖ landslîd in Floṛda fr Ron DeSantis, sìn az ɖ most lîcli ćaḷnjr fr ɖ preẓdnśl noṃneśn – az Mr Trump’s ʈrets t ɖ guvnr śo.
In mni wez ɖ Deṃcrats’ pformns lct mor lîc ɖ rzult v a vot agnst Rpublicn xtrimizm ɖn a vot v confidns in Mr Bîdn’z parti. Infleśn wz ɖ top iśu fr votrz, bt aborśn cem clos bhnd – n ǎtranct it in Pnṣlveńa. Dspt GOP canddets’ last-minit atmts t blŕ ɖer hardlîn anti’borśn stansz, az ɖe riylîzd ɖer unpopylaṛti, votrz trnd ǎt t dfnd wimin’z rît t ōtoṇmi n hlʈcer. Caḷforńa, Miśign n Vmont s’portd baḷtmeźrz ɖt ifctivli privnt stetlejsletrz inactñ banz. In Norʈ Caṛlîna (a ci desṭneśn fr ppl fṛm anti’borśn stets), Rpublicnz dd nt gt ɖ sūṗmjoṛti ɖe sòt in ɖ stethǎs, ẃć wd hv alaud ɖm t inact a totl or six-wīc aborśnban. Pṛtctñ dmocṛsi wz anɖr ci cnsrn fr votrz. An alarmñ numbr v ilex́n dnîrz wún rêsz; sm wl nǎ oṿsi fyćr vots. Bt mni uɖrz wr rjctd.
Oṿol ɖ rzults r a filip fr Deṃcrat mrāl n, dspt Mr Bîdn’z reḷtivli lo profîl in ɖs campen, streñʈn hiz pziśn in hiz parti (ɖo acordñ t wn xitpoul, onli 30% v votrz sd ɖe wontd him t run agn in 2024; 67% sd ɖe dd’nt). H wl olso rten preśs oʈoṛti in inṭnaśnl dīlñz. Ol ɖs z a rlif. Bt aftr wn v ɖ most f’rośsli fòt ilex́nz, wɖ a staġrñ $16.7bn spent, ɖ YS’z ćaḷnjz n dviźnz r az glẹrñ az evr.
