Posted on 11/07/2017 5:25:42 PM PST by Coronal
Democrat Ralph Northam has won Virginia's race for governor.
Early unofficial results show Northam defeated Republican Ed Gillespie on Tuesday.
Virginia's hard-fought race was closely watched as a swing-state test of President Donald Trump's popularity. Northam, a pediatric neurologist and the state's lieutenant governor, repeatedly tried to tie Gillespie to the president during months of divisive campaigning overshadowed by racial overtones and attack ads.
Northam's victory was in large part due to a surge in anti-Trump energy since the president took office. Democrats said they had record levels of enthusiasm heading into the race.
Gillespie kept Trump at a distance throughout the campaign but tried to rally the president's supporters with hard-edge ads focused on illegal immigration and preserving Confederate statues.
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“Gillespie kept Trump at a distance throughout the campaign”
Explains it all right there.
In the last decade, thanks to illegal immigration and the establishment Republicans letting it happen, Virginia has become a solid blue state.
In Northern Virginia illegal aliens and green card immigrants have been registered by the tens of thousands, and they vote. Establishment Republicans control the legislature but with few exceptions allowed the illegal alien invasion and vote fraud continue because they wanted the Chamber of Commerce and cheap labor donor class support and funding.
Gillespie was with them supporting amnesty until he got desperate at the end and picked up the sanctuary city scheme, which he never would have lived up to. He barely beat a true Make America Great Again conservative Corey Stewart by less than 1% in the primary and then he and his campaign disowned those supporters and Trump voters by trying to woo democrat “moderates”.
He didn’t get beat by Northam. He got beat because he dissed the Deplorables base like the rest of the Virginia Republican establishment has been doing. He got payback.
Because of illegal immigration, Virginia is becoming the California of the east. And Republicans let it happen.
That was long long long before the arrival of 30 Million LEGAL immigrants during last 25 years. Majority came in as chain migrants, which simply means sponsored for a green card by another green card holder. A green card is another name for permanent resident visa, which is first step towards applying for citizenship 3-5 years later.
No surprise. VA is deep state now. In aer 10 years they will wind up like us here in CA
No surprise. VA is deep state now. In aer 10 years they will wind up like us here in CA
see #62.
Not really surprised.
We need Ed in the Senate....or at least the house...a voting position.
Exactly, we’re trying to get guys like Gillespie out of the GOP.
This election was a bloodbath. Rs lost everything and likely the legislature as well.
Too many D.C. commies have ruined the place.
The future of the R party lies in the working class voters of Ohio, PA, and the upper Midwest.
We have a “new” governor tonight. Thanks for playing.
“Hope the final result is close.”
With most of the votes counted it’s 53.3 - 45.4
Oddly enough, the losses Democrats suffered in all the other off-year and special elections were not -- repeat NOT -- due in large part to the disgust generated by Hillary or Obunghole.
NOVA is a huge part of the swamp. Everyone from Fredricksburg northward commute into DC for their government jobs. Sorry but Gillespie couldn’t shed his own swamp skin to convince enough downstate voters that he could make any difference.
Besides, the governorship of VA doesn’t mean diddly in the broad context of the reshaping of the US political landscape.
Fake news.
Real news: A Rino swamp creature loses Governer race to a leftist swamp rat.
bonehead.
We don’t have a RINO governor, thankful for that.
I'm really surprised that Gillespie did as well as he did. (And at one point appeared to have a chance.)
I didn't think that the swamp would enjoy being drained.
Agreed. The middle eastern, Asian, and Hispanic population has increased by a huge margin.
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