Virginia hints at trouble for the GOP in the 2018 midterms, but not for the reason you think.

[DetlefK]

Gillespie ran on a Trump-platform. Gillespie lost.
What lesson do Republicans learn from this? Run as a Republican but don't touch Trump with a ten-foot-pole.

-> In 2018 republican candidates will try to boast themselves as Republicans while at the same time avoiding any association with Trump.

-> That's exactly what the Democrats did in the 2014 midterms. They ran as Democrats but carefully avoided any association with Obama. And 2014 was a bloodbath.



Voters don't want a party in disarray. Voters want somebody who can assure them that he gets shit done.
If the Republicans run away from Trump in 2018, they will look like dysfunctional losers.

Trump is a PR-nightmare for the GOP.

[Achilleaze]

1. Dems need to hang Comrade Casino* around every repube neck

The repubes are the ones who did this to America.

* deceitful republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[Guilded Lilly]

2. The GOP is fairly horrible just on their stand alone record.

They will be screwed just being GOP. While they push their anti-humanity agenda while hiding behind the Reality Show Vomit of the Cretin, even distancing themselves from his billious existence won’t save them from their stand alone, vile politics.