'A huge red flag for Republicans': GOP frantic as longtime voters abandon party over Trump

[workinclasszero]

‘A huge red flag for Republicans’: GOP frantic as longtime voters abandon party over Trump
Tom Boggioni 26 NOV 2017 AT 10:38 ET

Nearly one year after Donald Trump took up residence in the White House, the failures and petty squabbles of the new president are already having an impact on voters, causing Republicans to be concerned how much damage he can do to the party before the 2018 midterms.

Case in point: the recent election in Virginia that saw a traditional GOP stronghold flip for a Democrat.

According to the Washington Post, Chesterfield County backed a Democrat for governor for the first time since 1961 and the GOP is looking for answers to stop the bleeding in a county that is seeing more women voters going to the polls in the age of Trump.

“That’s a huge red flag for Republicans and an opportunity for Democrats,” explained Jesse Ferguson, a Democratic strategist. “There’s opportunity in these traditionally conservative suburbs with college-educated white voters who are unwilling to back a Republican candidate. It’s a function of and proof that Trump has tainted the rest of the Republicans running for office.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/a-huge-red-flag-for-republicans-gop-frantic-as-longtime-voters-abandon-party-over-trump/

[ProfessorGAC]

1. File This Under "Well, Duh"!!!

They couldn't see this coming? No ideas, all bluster, and now no progress!
Dummies!

[workinclasszero]

2. I hope the elections in 2018 are a bloodbath for the damned republicans

The democratic party must rescue this country once again from those traitor bastards.

[democratisphere]

3. If "we" have to put up with another year of drumpf's antics, it will be a bloodbath.

We need very dynamic centrist Democrats to step forward and step it up!

[LongTomH]

5. Actually, the largest number of 2017 victories were by progressive candidates

'Tsunami' of Progressive Victories Delivers Massive Repudiation of Trumpism.

Progressives are already organizing for 2018.

[Aristus]

4. Another case in point: Mrs. Aristus.

A once die-hard Republican, she has voted Democratic in Presidential races since 2008, although she voted for the Republican in the down-ballot races in those same elections.

Since the convulsive shock caused by Trump's electoral college win last year, she has vowed never to vote for any Republican ever again; not even for dog-catcher. A devout evangelical Christian, she stopped going to church when exit polling revealed that 81% of evangelicals voted for Trump. She told me she couldn't possibly go to church knowing that 81% of the people surrounding her in the sanctuary likely were Trump voters.

She is still in a deep, depressed daze a year later. Not just because she feels betrayed by the party and the church she has supported her entire adult life. But because, like the rest of us, she sees Trump's presidency as a catastrophic blow to American morality and integrity.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. To Steal A Line From Will Hunting!

It's not your fault!
Tell her that for me Aristus! Its not her fault! She didn't vote for the buffoon!