Most of the far-right candidates who were boosted by the Democratic Party lost to Democrats in key battleground states on Tuesday night.
The governor of Illinois looked to his supporters after defeating his opponent.
Republican candidate and election denier Donald Bolduc lost the U.S. Senate race in New Hampshire to incumbent Democratic Sen.
Hillary Scholten flipped a red seat in Michigan by defeating a right-wing candidate who had repeated the former president's false claims about a stolen election.
The Democrats ran ads that linked him to Trump and helped him win the Republican primary against a congressman who voted to impeach Trump.
The most significant impact of this risky strategy was felt across multiple gubernatorial races on Tuesday night.
Democratic candidates defeated right-wing candidates in several governors' races on Tuesday.
Lake, the vocal election-denying, Trump-backed gubernatorial candidate from Arizona, benefited from the risky Democratic strategy but the outcome of her race still remains in the balance, with Lake trailing her opponent by less than two points.
Democrats thought that elevating hard-right candidates in Republican primaries would give them an advantage in swing states with large numbers of independent or moderate voters. The Democratic Governors Association poured millions of dollars into attack ads against moderate Republicans in order to get them to vote for them. It was thought that hard-right candidates who questioned the election results would be easier to beat in November. As she faced low approval ratings and was fighting to keep her seat, the strategy helped her. Despite its eventual success, the strategy faced some blowback from within the party as many expressed displeasure for what they saw was a cynical attempt to boost election deniers and conspiracy theorists.
There is a red wave of optimism among Republicans.
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