The fight for control of the Virginia General Assembly is heating up. One thing is clear: Democrats learned nothing from the 2021 wave that turned our “purple” state red. Pro-life Virginians defeated Democrats, and exit polls showed as many as 8% of Virginia voters citing abortion as their top issue. Those voters backed Gov. Glenn Youngkin by up to 17 points.

Democrats, drawing zero lessons from former Gov. Ralph Northam’s abortion extremism, are doubling down on abortion as their ticket to keep the state Senate and recapture the state House. And though local Democrats complain they aren’t getting enough help from the top of the ticket, President Joe Biden’s campaign poured at least $25 million nationally into this abortion-forward strategy.

But there’s a problem with their strategy. The Republicans who lost adopted the “ostrich strategy” — refusing to even talk about abortion or fight back as their opponents spent millions on attack ads distorting their positions.