Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.) offered some strange takes in quick succession as it became clear that Tuesday’s election results would be bad for Republicans and conservative causes.
“You put very sexy things like abortion and marijuana on the ballot, and a lot of young people come out and vote,” he griped on Newsmax.
Both issues were on the ballot in Ohio. The state has tilted red, yet voters on Tuesday passed measures protecting reproductive rights and legalizing recreational cannabis for adult use.
Santorum ― who was fired as a CNN pundit in 2021 after wildly racist comments about Native Americans ― called the two issues “a secret sauce for disaster” for Republicans in the state.
Then, he went a step further.
“Thank goodness that most of the states in this country don’t allow you to put everything on the ballot because pure democracies are not the way to run a country,” he said.
The comments caused Santorum’s name to trend on X, formerly Twitter, as his critics chimed in:
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