The Spectator’s 2022 midterms election night: live coverage
Commentary as the results come in from Amber Athey, Ben Domenech, Bridget Phetasy, Chadwick Moore, John Pietro, Matt McDonald, Matt Purple, Oliver Wiseman and Roger Kimball
2022 midterms
Tuesday
Monday
Blake Masters grows up
The Arizona Republican thinks out loud about his journey from libertarianism to the New Right
How Stacey Abrams blew it
She’s been running a national campaign for four years. Why is it backfiring?
Scoop: FBI warns local parties of election interference from foreign actor
The agency said they had intelligence indicating possible meddling attempts
The debt ceiling battle lurking after the elections
It could be back to the early 2010s, especially if the GOP wins and Democrats get desperate
Sunday
Republican support for Ukraine is fading
The GOP candidates aren’t all sold on more aid
Saturday
Manchin’s rebuke shows how toxic Biden’s energy views are
A Democrat was willing to blast them full-bore
Friday
The Pelosi/McCarthy feud at the heart of the midterms
They don’t like each other, and on Tuesday both of their careers are on the line
Could Gretchen Whitmer lose in Michigan?
She severely underestimated her opponent Tudor Dixon
Thursday
Patty Murray makes an anguished face
The Democrat is in the electoral fight of her life, and surely democracy itself is at stake
Democrats made Kari Lake a star
Why did Biden’s party labor to put ‘election-deniers’ on the ballot?
Kitchen tables versus kitchen tablets: the real election divide
Only in front of a screen does climate change matter more than the economy
Wednesday
Eight Democrats we all hope lose this November
And Beto is number seven
Biden’s wasted jaunt down in Florida
Democrats are bleeding in purple and blue states yet he chose to come here?
Tuesday
Saving San Francisco
The city’s leaders need a wake-up call — again
Tim Ryan has big ‘divorced guy’ energy
The Democrats’ Senate hopeful exudes a profound melancholy
Monday
Why the Democrats’ ‘election denier’ trope is backfiring
What if voters have accepted this is just how American politics is?
Sunday
Politicians’ backstabbing family members are the worst
Adam Laxalt’s relatives are going full Brutus on the senatorial candidate
Saturday
On the ground with Obama, Warnock and Abrams in Georgia
Politician-turned-celebrity attacks celebrity-turned-politician
Thursday
Democrats are losing because liberalism has become cruel
The ‘stop hate’ party embraces vicious identity politics, and voters have noticed
