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One prominent journalist is attributing Republicans’ lopsided win this week to the Democratic Party learning the wrong lesson from the 2022 midterms. In a recent post to NBC News’ “From the Politics Desk,” chief political analyst Chuck Todd posited that Democrats failed to adequately prepare for the 2024 presidential election due to the “red wave” of 2022 never materializing. He wrote that President-elect Donald Trump catching Democrats off-guard was due to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris overestimating their popularity after Republicans failed to retake the U.S. Senate tw…