Posted on 10/31/2025 4:44:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The elections on Tuesday hardly seem to be top of mind for President Trump.
He has spent the last week crisscrossing Asia, talking trade, nuclear weapons and rare earths, and is headed to Florida this weekend. He has not appeared in person in any of the major states hosting elections, like New Jersey or California, to pump up his party’s candidate or cause. In Virginia, where a weak Republican candidate for governor is lagging behind an impervious-looking Democrat, he’s offered only a tepid endorsement late in the campaign.
(This has not, of course, stopped Democrats from talking about him, either in California, where they are fighting to pass a ballot measure that could give them five more safe House seats, or anywhere else.)
None of this is unusual for a president in an off-year. But the contests — particularly the governor’s races in New Jersey and Virginia — are essentially the opening salvos of the midterm elections. And even if Trump has relatively little to say about them, the results will offer signals about his political strength and his party’s strength more broadly, as it considers ways to keep his supporters in the fold when he is barred from once again topping the ticket.
“Will those Trump voters become Republican voters?” asked Mike DuHaime, a Republican strategist who worked on Chris Christie’s successful off-year campaigns for New Jersey governor in 2009 and 2013. “Do they think any other race, other than presidential, is important enough to come out for?”
Here are three story lines that show how even elections that aren’t directly about Trump can’t help but be a little Trumpy.
When Jack Ciattarelli, a former state lawmaker and a Republican, first ran for...
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1. EVERYTHING is about Trump, according to the loony left, and Trump is always “on the ballot” even when he actually isn’t. Hatred is far and away the Democrats’ #1 motivator in elections, and most anything else in their miserable lives.
2. Ciattarelli is nothing like Trump, no matter how much the liberal media wants him to be. But what he’s really like isn’t important, it’s what people THINK he is; the media’s job, as always, is to lie as much as necessary to make voters hate the Republican. For example, like the New York Times is doing here.
This is the GnuYakThymes, the creed of the Presstitutes.
There are a lot of useful idiots out there, let us all pray they remain in the minority.
I’d be more worried about what the elections say about democrats. Two blue states that Trump didn’t win in the last election. This should be a layup for the Dem party. Period.
The New York Slimes
I think democrats should be more worried about the Muslim and communist takeover of their party.
Republicans will be using the results of those elections to their advantage in future elections.
Unfortunately, the Dims are likely to dominate in my formerly sweet Virginia.
True, if we survive the destruction of NY City.
Nothing. NYC and NJ are Demo states. VA is always a toss up.
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