PBS Analyst: If Dems Lose In Virginia, It'll Be 'Close to Civil War Within the Democratic Party'

newsbusters.org ^ | 11/4/2017 | Tim Graham

[rktman]

With statewide elections on Tuesday in Virginia and New Jersey, the PBS NewsHour week-in-review segment strangely focused on Democrats for a change. Liberal analyst Mark Shields shocked PBS anchor Judy Woodruff by saying if Virginia’s Democratic candidate for governor, Ralph Northam, can’t defeat Republican Ed Gillespie with his alleged Trump baggage, there will be hell to pay:

MARK SHIELDS: I would say this, Judy. If, in fact, the Democrats lose on Tuesday in Virginia, that it will lead to — close to civil war within the Democratic Party.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Whoa.

SHIELDS: It will be — there will be reprisals between the Bernie — that Northam has run a very conventional, sort of cautious campaign, and that will be — and Bernie Sanders — Tom Perriello, the — his primary opponent on the other side, there will be questions that he had — the Democratic Party really didn’t stand — and 2016 all over again.

[Stentor]

Be fun if it’s like a New York mob war.

[ought-six]

Civil War in the DNC? Be still my heart.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

That is why it so ultra important that every single Republican/Conservative/Blue Dog Democrat/Trumper TURNOUT to vote for Gillespie in those rural counties and voting precincts. Do it!!! MAGA!!!

[princeofdarkness]

Can the counties hold off reporting vote totals until the last minute and make tbe rats play a guessing game on how many votes they need?

[Albion Wilde]

If Dems Lose In Virginia, It'll Be 'Close to Civil War Within the Democratic Party'

Bring it.

[Darnright]

“Can the counties hold off reporting vote totals until the last minute and make tbe rats play a guessing game on how many votes they need?”

I don’t know. But it has happened too many times to be coincidence.