Trump was on the ballot in Virginia. He lost.
By Dana Milbank, Washington Post
POSTED: 11/08/17, 3:35 PM PST | UPDATED: 2 HRS AGO
... Trump himself embraced Gillespie, endorsing him .. and urging support for Gillespie.
... Gillespie .. attempted to remake himself as a Trump clone. He played down conventional Republican talk about tax cuts in favor of a racially charged campaign right from the Trump playbook: support for Confederate monuments, fear of immigrants and outrageous calumny about Northam being a friend of pedophiles.
The commonwealth on Tuesday night gave a resounding rejection to this filth. Northam won by more than eight percentage points.
The half of voters, who said in exit polls that Trump was a factor, opposed the president by 2 to 1. Among the half who said that Trump wasn't a factor — they favored Gillespie by 15 points — well, perhaps it was more that they wished Trump weren't a factor in the race ...
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/opinion/20171108/dana-milbank-trump-was-on-the-ballot-in-virginia-he-lost
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