An Off-Year Election of Setbacks for Freedom

Early in the evening last Tuesday, on-air personalities began to call Virginia's governor race for Abigail Spanberger (D) over Winsome Earle-Sears (R). Despite refusing to call for Democratic attorney general candidate Jay Jones to drop out of the race after texts surfaced of him fantasizing about the shooting of a political opponent and the death of his children, voters still elected both Spanberger and Jones.

On the red-and-blue maps the news anchors stood in front of, this trend continued into New Jersey, where Mikie Sherrill (D) defeated Jack Ciattarelli (R) and, up in New York City, where democratic-socialist Zohran Mamdani (D) trounced Andrew Cuomo (I).

All of these races were different—and will have very different impacts on citizens' Second Amendment-protected rights—but a far-left, very anti-gun sweep was a common theme.

In Virginia, a majority of voters rejected a candidate for governor who stands so devotedly for individual freedom …