<p>Conservative commentator Victor Davis Hanson told Megyn Kelly what he thinks happened in the 2022 midterms, as he explained that President Joe Biden&#8217;s &#8220;dark Brandon&#8221; speech attacking Republicans &#8220;actually worked.&#8221;</p>
<p>During the Sirius XM &#8220;The Megyn Kelly Show&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocjvqe8RF8w">podcast</a> on Monday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/megyn-kelly">the host</a> read an analysis from Tom Bevan of Real Clear Politics that, &#8220;independents went for the incumbent party by two points.&#8221; She also read that Democrats did vote &#8220;partisan lines and the GOP did too, but the Dems did it a little bit more.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/victor-davis-hanson">Hanson</a> listed several things he thought was the cause for why the Republicans failed to not only take over the Senate but are projected to barely eke out a victory in the House despite rising crime and inflation. One big take away the conservative commentator noted was that the youth vote was successfully pandered to by Biden.</p>
<p>&#8220;So, in the last 60 days, the youth of America was said, &#8216;I&#8217;m going to cancel a lot of your student loans,'&#8221; Hanson shared noting Biden&#8217;s promise. &#8220;We thought, &#8216;ah that&#8217;s just pandering. Nobody would believe that.'&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;Then they [Biden] said &#8216;we&#8217;re going to give you amnesty for marijuana conviction,'&#8221; he added. &#8216;Oh, who cares about that it won&#8217;t effect that many people.&#8217; Or &#8216;these people are going to take abortion away from you.&#8217; And those issues for that rubric and they&#8217;re galvanized on the campuses &#8230; they just were overwhelmingly deleterious the Republican cause.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hanson told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-one-will-miss-her-megyn-kelly-political-commentators-react-to-msnbc-host-being-dropped">Kelly</a> that even the president&#8217;s move before the election by &#8220;draining the strategic petroleum reserve,&#8221; which he said probably brought gas prices down about ten cents a gallon, &#8220;apparently might&#8217;ve worked.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;So what we consider pandering and demagoguery,&#8221; the political commentator added. &#8220;Or whoever believed that &#8216;Phantom of the Opera&#8217; speech that Biden gave that was so obnoxious and repellent, that actually worked.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hanson stopped short of repeating the idea that the only way to win in 2024 is to get rid of former President Donald Trump and said that Biden pushed his &#8220;effective propaganda&#8221; that Trump or those that support the former president were &#8220;un-American&#8221; or an &#8220;election denialist&#8221; or &#8220;semi-fascist.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;And you are on the other side saying Joe Biden is &#8216;non compos mentis&#8230;and it&#8217;s all an attack on Biden,&#8221; Hanson added. &#8220;And they&#8217;re saying &#8216;these people attack, they attack&#8217;, then it becomes even more important to have a positive message&#8230;They [GOP] thought by attacking Joe Biden in negative terms, all justified and all true, they were going to reduce him into a caricature of a caricture. But what it did was it amplified the Democrat message that &#8216;these people are shrill and they are angry. And they disrupt elections.'&#8221;</p>
<p>He also said the party really needs someone like late-President Ronald Reagan that will appeal to all Republicans, noting that the person will have to appeal to not just those who came on board and supported people like late-Sen. John McCain or Sen. Mitt Romney but also those that joined the GOP because of Trump.</p>

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