It was another big night for Democrats on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
One year after a surge in turnout helped the Democrats deflate talk of a red wave in the 2022 midterms, the party once again enjoyed major success on Election Day 2023.<\/p>\n
The Democrats appeared to get a big boost for a party coping with continued concerns over the economy and a plethora of international crises, from Europe to the Mideast to Asia.<\/p>\n
Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear cruised to victory in his re-election bid in red-state Kentucky, while Democrats won total control of the state legislature in Virginia, expanded their legislative majorities in New Jersey, won a state Supreme Court seat in battleground Pennsylvania and passed an Ohio referendum that enshrined abortion rights in the state\u2019s constitution.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For President Biden \u2014 who faces increasing doubts about his ability to win re-election next year after a slew of devastating polls in recent days showing him losing to former President Donald Trump in a 2024 rematch \u2014 the ballot box victories are seen as a much-needed booster shot.<\/p>\n
\u2018Across the country tonight, democracy won and MAGA lost. Voters vote. Polls don\u2019t. Now let\u2019s go win next year,\u2019 the president urged in a fundraising social media post and text on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
The president\u2019s re-election campaign argued that \u2018in hundreds of races since Donald Trump\u2019s conservative Supreme Court appointments overturned\u00a0Roe v. Wade, we\u2019ve seen Americans overwhelmingly side with President Biden and Democrats\u2019 vision for this country. That same choice will be before voters again next November, and we are confident the American people will send President Biden and Vice President Harris back to the White House to keep working for them.\u2019<\/p>\n
Veteran strategist and Democratic National Committee member Maria Cardona argued that Biden came out ahead, despite not being on the ballot himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018I absolutely think it was a big night for Joe Biden because the president is the head of the Democratic Party,\u2019 Cardona said. \u2018He is the one who\u2019s pushing the Democratic agenda\u2026 which is making this contrast that is enabling Democrats to win up and down the ballot all across the country.\u2019<\/p>\n
Seasoned Democratic operative Joe Caizzo told Fox News that \u2018what Tuesday night showed is voters across the country are overwhelmingly rejecting radicalism.\u2019<\/p>\n
But Caiazzo, a veteran of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders\u2019 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns, acknowledged: \u2018Make no bones about it, Democrats have some work to do before next year\u2019s elections.\u2019<\/p>\n
Pointing to Biden\u2019s underwater standing in the surveys, Caiazzo said that \u2018part of the reason why the president\u2019s poll numbers haven\u2019t been phenomenal is because he\u2019s governing. He\u2019s not perpetually on the campaign trail.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018I think the president has delivered for working families,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
Caiazzo predicted that \u2018once the campaign heats up and that argument is actually delivered to voters, it will be crystal clear that he\u2019s followed through.\u2019<\/p>\n
But Biden wasn\u2019t a fixture on the 2023 campaign trail, and Beshear secured re-election after keeping himself at arm\u2019s length from the president and national Democrats.<\/p>\n
Recent polls indicate that Biden faces rising concerns from Democrats over his age and that many Americans, including plenty of Democrats, do not want the president to seek a second term in the White House. Several top Democrats have suggested that the 80-year-old president should drop out of the 2024 race and pass the baton to a new generation.<\/p>\n