Trump predicts tumult among Democrats in Virginia will turn the state red in 2020
Source: The Washington Post
By John Wagner February 7 at 8:36 AM
President Trump predicted Thursday that the tumult involving Virginias top three Democrats would help him carry the state in 2020 and said far stronger action would be taken if the politicians involved were Republicans.
Link to tweet
His tweet referred to controversies threatening the careers of Gov. Ralph Northam (D), Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D) and Attorney General Mark R. Herring (D).
Herring acknowledged Wednesday that he dressed in blackface during college. That added to the drama fueled by the emergence of a racist photo from Northams 1984 medical school yearbook and an allegation of sexual assault by Herring in 2004, which he has steadfastly denied.
Trump did not spell out what actions would be taken if the three men were Republicans or who would initiate the actions.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-predicts-tumult-among-democrats-in-virginia-will-turn-the-state-red-in-2020/2019/02/07/3435bcfe-2ad9-11e9-984d-9b8fba003e81_story.html
bearsfootball516
(6,378 posts)underpants
(183,303 posts)Only the Gov is restricted to one consecutive term.
Turbineguy
(37,488 posts)what or who people vote for. They just want the power.
underpants
(183,303 posts)In fact there was no Dem primary in 2012 when Brat beat Cantor - Dems voting against Cantor as a cry in wilderness was why Brat won.
Of course 2018 also saw Wexton and Luria win.
Oh and there was that 2017 off year state election (as we do here) when everyone was exhausted by politics and the Dems came within a name drawn out of a bowl (after a dubious court ruling tying the election) from taking control of the state house. That election featured a transgendered candidate beating the old fogey who introduced a Bathroom Bill here. Roem beat Bob Marshall a standard in Va politics since 1992.
Lets also not forget that a court ordered re-districting will be in place for this years election wiping out the ridiculously gerrymandered state districts that are the only thing keeping the oooold Dominion types in power.
NewJeffCT
(56,830 posts)how did that prediction work out for him?
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)You beat me to it!
Trump doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground!
The political genius who guaranteed a red wave in the midterms!!
Idiot45 watches Fox & Friends daily and thinks it's REAL!
smb
(3,486 posts)Trump doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground!
In all fairness, before he can tell his ass from a hole in the ground he faces the difficult task of figuring out which end is his ass.
True because in his case, shit comes out both ends!
MissMillie
(38,653 posts)...his ability to muck things up. And he still has over 600 days to do that.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)I block and mute him on Twitter only to see his bullshit posted here daily
DBoon
(22,475 posts).. has Trump's ear.
I wish I could be as optimistic as the other posters, but these folks have a lot of victories, from Ed Muskie to John Kerry and to HRC
LiberalFighter
(51,866 posts)Grins
(7,312 posts)Yeah; in 20105 a Confederacy-loving, anti-immigrant Republican white supremacist* would be chosen to head "His" presidential campaign in the state, then nominate said Confederacy-loving, white supremacist to run for Governor a year later with the endorsement of the neo-Confederate group, "Save Southern Heritage", where he would lose by a mere 1.2% of all Republican votes. Unbowed by the rebuke of their racism, the Republican Party then nominated him to run for the U.S. Senate a year later, where he would manage to get 41% of the total vote - i.e., 1,370,702 (almost 1.4 MILLION) REPUBLICANS voted FOR this public bigot!!
* If you don't know, Corey Stewart.
Marcuse
(7,594 posts)Probably true.
marieo1
(1,402 posts)I don't get it - we have the biggest sexual predator of all in the Whitehouse and he acts like he is completely innocent and can make stupid comments like this. Apparently he has no guilt or shame. He is a disgusting piece of humanity.
maxrandb
(15,478 posts)It works on Democrats because we haven't lost our souls yet.