Posted on 11/05/2019 8:01:43 PM PST by Morgana
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Democrats continued their winning streak under President Trump on Tuesday and took full control of the statehouse for the first time in more than two decades.
Democrats won majorities in both the state House and Senate in the marquee warmup for next year’s presidential election, the third election in a row in which they have made significant gains since Trump was elected.
Of the four states with legislative elections this year, Virginia is the only one where control of the statehouse was up for grabs. Republicans had slim majorities in both the state House and Senate.
National groups, particularly those aligned with Democrats, pumped huge amounts of money into the contests as a way to test-drive expensive messaging and get-out-the-vote campaigns ahead of the 2020 cycle. Gun control and clean energy groups affiliated with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg spent several million dollars helping Democrats.
Virginia also drew several high-profile visits from 2020 presidential hopefuls, including former Vice President Joe Biden, as well as current Vice President Mike Pence.
Trump tried to rally Republicans via Twitter but stayed out of Virginia, a state he lost in 2016.
His election three years ago has been disastrous for Virginia Republicans, particularly in growing suburban areas. Democrats have won every statewide contest, picked up three additional congressional seats and now are set to control both the state house and the Executive Mansion for the first time since 1994.
Republicans were hoping an off-year election with no statewide candidates on the ballot would help defuse the anti-Trump energy that powered previous cycles. GOP lawmakers also were hopeful that the specter of a possible Trump impeachment would anger and motivate the Republican base.
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Moving to West Virginia at the earliest possible date.
Washington, D.C. West. Sad. Time to move for some?
Well, the state will get what it voted for: a blackfaced governor, a woman abusing vice-gov, and a bunch of gun grabbers set on civil war.
They’re going to turn Virginia into Maryland, or worse, New Jersey.
LOL!
“It’s all about Trump!”
Actually, Dems success in our legislature comes from McCain killing Obamacare reform- which won Dems a lot of seats last time.
And the gerrymander of the Districts by the courts.
And Soros smiles. A real shame.
And Virginia USED to have such nice places to visit.
Oh well
Va has been under Soros control since at least macaca.
VA is lost - uncontrolled immigration, third-world parasites, illegals and NE liberals dominate.
Virginia is the first state of the old confederacy to go full (liberal)Democrat.
Expect it to start declining into the Sh%thole that is every other Democratic stronghold.
It will be California but without the really nice weather, and scenic mountains .
In other words, New Jersey.
I live just outside Richmond. The Virginia GOP desperately needs new leadership, in fact they have for some time now. Messaging has been very bad, and we have had lousy candidates.
What fools these mortals be!
Live and die with your responses ViginCalifornia.
Their win in VA tonight is due entirely to redistricting ordered by black robed tyrants. They even appointed a “neutral” California professor to draw the new lines.
VA is lost - uncontrolled immigration, third-world parasites, illegals and NE liberals dominate.
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BINGO
Can you take a few hundred thousand with you at least to add some electoral votes and House seats to WV and take them away from VA?
Their win in VA tonight is due entirely to redistricting ordered by black robed tyrants. They even appointed a “neutral” California professor to draw the new lines.
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Disgusting. Dems win by hook or crook. Media circle jerks sing their praises.
And now they will gerrymander like crazy and this will be deemed appropriate.
Northern Virginia is a company town. Contractors and others who support and derive a paycheck from a government connected service have a vested interest in keeping the gravy train flowing. Trump needs to move agencies to other heavily democrat cities where the trailing contractors voting will not be of consequence. Once the agencies are gone, the former agency buildings should be converted into low income and illegal alien housing. There is NO reason government workers should be insulated from the harm they are inflicting.
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