Going into the elections, Republicans held a slim 52-48 majority in the state House of Delegates, while Democrats held an equally slim 22-17 majority in the state Senate.
The House passed the bill in March without a single Democrat supporting the measure. The Senate has yet to bring the Parents Bill of Rights to the floor for a vote.
The Southern Poverty Law Center acknowledged Rep. Mike Johnson winning election to become House speaker by attacking what it called “hate groups” that celebrated his elevation.
“Their pervasive lie that women will die without Issue 1 was propped up by massive ad spending, funded by George Soros and a left-wing media machine," says the president of SBA Pro-Life America.
Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear won a second term after running a campaign where he cast himself as a moderate and distanced himself from President Joe Biden.
The Tea Party grandma who goes to church and who voted for Trump is, even for many “mainstream” Democrats, a bigger threat to “our democracy” than Islamists or Communist China.
