Trump predicts tumult among Democrats in Virginia will turn the state red in 2020

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



By John Wagner February 7 at 8:36 AM

President Trump predicted Thursday that the tumult involving Virginia’s 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 Northam’s 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]

1. Except the state is becoming increasingly blue, and none of them are on the 2020 ballot...

[underpants]

2. Fairfax and Herring can be

Only the Gov is restricted to one consecutive term.

[Turbineguy]

6. Repubs don't give a shit about

what or who people vote for. They just want the power.

[underpants]

3. Hi! I'm Abigail Spanberger. I won a Congressional seat Dems didn't even contest

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.

Let’s also not forget that a court ordered re-districting will be in place for this year’s election wiping out the ridiculously gerrymandered state districts that are the only thing keeping the oooold Dominion types in power.

[NewJeffCT]

4. he predicted a red wave in November

how did that prediction work out for him?

[workinclasszero]

9. Ha!

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]

13. Well, It's Not Easy For Him

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.

[workinclasszero]

16. LOL

True because in his case, shit comes out both ends!

[MissMillie]

5. Mr. Trump underestimates...

...his ability to muck things up. And he still has over 600 days to do that.

[beachbum bob]

7. like trump's predicition of GOP keeping the house?

[Blue_Tires]

8. Why are we supposed to give a rat's ass what Trump says?

I block and mute him on Twitter only to see his bullshit posted here daily

[DBoon]

10. whoever is rat fucking Virginia Democrats...

.. 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]

11. WP needs to do less to help DT.

[Grins]

12. "If the three failing pols were Republicans, far stronger action would be taken."

"If the three failing pols were Republicans, far stronger action would be taken." - The spray-tanned fascist, loofa-faced, shit-gibbon.

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]

14. "I could wear blackface and grab pudenda in the middle of 5th Avenue and lose no voters!"

Probably true.

[marieo1]

15. controversies

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]

17. Divide and conquer

It works on Democrats because we haven't lost our souls yet.

[maxrandb]

18. I had no idea he reads DU