You and I must have been watching different debates. Warner was the aggressor and had Ed on the defensive the whole time. Ed failed to go after Warner for signing the Gang of 8 bill. If he had approached it Dave Brat style, he could have hit a homerun.
The Gang of 8 bill triples legal immigration to 33 million over the next decade and doubles the guest worker programs from 640,000 to 1.4 million a year--all at a time when 21 million Americans are underemployed or unemployed. Illegal aliens are costing the state of VA over $2 billion a year. The Gang of 8 bill also provides amnesty for at least 12 million illegal aliens, which will cost $6.3 trillion according to a Heritage Foundation study.
Gillespie is going to lose because he is playing the political consultant game of trying not to make a mistake.
He’s going to lose because the RPV didn’t understand the game, and so let Warner leave office with an extremely high approval rating, and then left him alone and failed to attack him when he ran for Senate the first time.
The democrats understand the game, and how you tear down every possible candidate ahead of time, which is why none of our republican former governors are viable, even though every one of them did a better job at leading our state than the last three democrats in that office, two of whom are now Senators.