A triumph of decency over dread

[KenH]

"Virginians have now rejected President Trump’s tawdry, tasteless, taunting brand of politics in consecutive years — in 2016, when Hillary Clinton won the state by a greater margin than President Barack Obama managed in 2012, and again on Tuesday, when Democrats swept all three statewide offices and gained perhaps a dozen or so seats in what had been a GOP-dominated legislature. The rest of the South may be Trump country — though even that is uncertain given the president’s anemic poll ratings — but Virginia most assuredly is not."

Opinion | A triumph of decency over dread

 

[Revmitchell]

The Virginia election says nothing about trump.

 

[TCassidy]

"Virginians have now rejected President Trump’s tawdry, tasteless, taunting brand of politics in consecutive years

You are aware, are you not, that President Trump did not run for any office being voted on in Virginia and was not on any Virginia ballot since last November?

 

[InTheLight]

You are aware, are you not, that President Trump did not run for any office being voted on in Virginia and was not on any Virginia ballot since last November?

This one was for Donald Trump.

Exit polls revealed an unmistakable anti-Trump backlash Tuesday, as Democrats won resounding victories in governors races in Virginia and New Jersey.

Majorities of voters in both states disapproved of the job Trump is doing as president, with significant numbers of voters in each state saying Trump was a reason for their vote. And far more of those voters said they made their choice to oppose Trump than to support him.

Half of Virginia voters said Trump was a reason for their vote — with twice as many saying they were voting to oppose Trump (34 percent) as to support him (17 percent). Northam won 97 percent of voters for whom opposing Trump was a factor.

Exit polls: This was a message to Trump

 

[InTheLight]

The Virginia election says nothing about trump.

Trump seems to think it was all about Trump. He tweeted yesterday (while about to speak to the South Korean legislature) that Ed Gillespie lost because "he did not embrace me or what I stand for."

 

[777]

Oh, Evan McMuffin again of course, he'd say that but "decency over dread", did he NOT see the ad where a Gillepse surrogate was trying to run over children? It was tied right to Northam even when he said otherwise

Ed did try to disassociate himself from Trump, doubt it helped him or hurt him - running as a big Trump supporter wouldn't have ever been able to win a state that rejected Trump by five percentage points.

All those felons Northam and McAwful rushed to restore voting rights to didn't help Gillepse, and that other race, the one in New Jersey had yet another awful candidate running against a Democrat in a Clinton state. I really don't blame the voters in Virginia in particular for getting rid of all those GOP state Congressmen, they had a big majority and did virtually nothing. And in NJ, now they got a big gun control freak, party's on.

 

[Bro. Curtis]

How many threads is Kenh gonna start on the recent election being bad for Trump ? Seems like he’s spamming the board.