Democrats run the table as Americans reject Trump in every race

After a year of doubts, recriminations and special election misfires, Democrats finally got the big victories Tuesday they'd so desperately craved in the year since Donald Trump won the presidency.  

Ralph Northam won the Virginia governor's race and Phil Murphy took a New Jersey governor's office that had been in Republican Chris Christie's hands for eight years. Across the map, in mayoral contests, state legislative races and ballot measures, everything broke Democrats' way.  

Republicans will wake up Wednesday in a nightmare: All of a sudden, full control of Congress might be in serious jeopardy. Trump's low approval ratings look toxic. And it could be much harder to convince incumbents to run -- and to recruit candidates into open-seat races -- in such a difficult environment.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/07/politics/5-takeaways-election-virginia-governor-trump/index.html

The republic still stands.

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Ben, I just tried clicking on this and i got a warning in red that this was a deceptive site and comes up in the address bar as ''dangerous''

Yeah I got that to.

It seems that some folk are no longer willing to wait for their daily dose of CNN fake news, but instead now have to make it up themselves

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VIRGINIA REJECTS 'TRUMPISM' AS DEMS SCORE MAJOR VICTORIES

By STEVE PEOPLES and ALAN SUDERMAN , Associated Press
Nov. 8, 2017 9:10 AM ET

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Seizing his party's first major Trump-era victory, Democrat Ralph Northam beat back a charge from Republican Ed Gillespie in the race for Virginia governor, a bruising election that tested the power of Fake President Trump's fiery nationalism against the energy of the Trump resistance.

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Virginia Gov.-elect Ralph Northam celebrates his election victory with his wife Pam and daughter Aubrey, right, and Dorothy McAuliffe, wife of Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe at the Northam For Governor election night party at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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In Virginia, as in several contests across America on Tuesday, the Trump resistance won. And it wasn't close.

Northam, a pediatric neurologist and Army veteran, defeated longtime Republican operative Gillespie in the hard-fought contest. "I'm here to let you know that the doctor is in," a smiling Northam told supporters gathered in suburban Washington, D.C., for his victory speech. "As long as I'm governor, I will work hard to make sure we're inclusive."

He added, "Virginia has told us to end the divisiveness, that we do not condone hatred and bigotry and to end the politics that have torn this country apart."

Northam's victory set off overnight recriminations and finger-pointing among Trump's hardcore supporters. The pro-Trump website Breitbart News, which had earlier praised Gillespie as a "culture warrior," derided him as a "Republican swamp thing." Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, said Northern Virginia's voter-rich liberal suburbs should be annexed by the District of Columbia, "to return the governance of (Virginia) to Virginians."

Democrats also scored victories in the race for New Jersey governor and in Maine, where voters slapped the state's Republican governor, a Trump ally, by backing a measure to expand Medicaid coverage under former President Barack Obama's health care law.

The Democratic mayors of New York and Boston, both vocal Trump critics, also won re-election easily.

And Virginia voters elected the state's first openly-transgender state representative, among more than a dozen state legislative pickups for Democrats.

The resounding victories marked the GOP's most significant day of defeat in the young Trump presidency and a rebuke to the president himself as his party eyes a suddenly more threatening midterm election season next year.

The Democratic gubernatorial victories in Virginia and New Jersey prompted congratulations from Obama, who tweeted Wednesday morning, "This is what happens when the people vote." Obama also congratulated "all the victors in state legislative, county and mayors' races."

"The Democratic Party is back, my friends," said Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez.

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http://www.apnewsarchive.com/2017/Democrat-Ralph-Northam-beat-back-a-late-charge-from-Republican-Ed-Gillespie-in-the-race-for-Virginia-governor-in-a-contest-that-tested-the-power-of-President-Donald-Trump-s-fiery-nationa/id-20bd1d2490e24643b304e2d38e06dec0

Many fakenews stories also have reliable links that work.

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smelly-bandit wrote:Many fakenews stories also have reliable links that work.

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Is that true? I've never seen any of those things, but then again, never really gone looking for them. Any way you wouldn't mind posting up a few examples for me? I'd really appreciate it.

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What's interesting about Virginia and New Jersey, are the exit polls. A huge majority testified that their vote for democrats was totally a message that they don't like Trump and the Republican policies he pursues. Ironically, because the Republicans failed to repeal or replace Obamacare, the public detested the effort to even try.

Good news for Democrats in the upcoming 2018 elections. Impeachment of Trump and removal of Niel Gorsuch from the Supreme Court, as being unconstitutionally appointed.

Tuesday was a good night for Democrats and a bad one for Trump. Jonathan Martin writes:

Voters delivered their first forceful rebuke of President Trump and his party on Tuesday night, with Democrats exploiting Mr. Trump’s deep unpopularity to capture the governorships in Virginia and New Jersey and make significant inroads into suburban communities that once favored the Republican Party.

The Democratic Party’s crowning success of the night came in Virginia, where Lt. Gov. Ralph S. Northam, an understated physician and Army veteran, won a commanding victory for governor,overcoming a racially charged campaign by his Republican opponent and cementing Virginia’s transformation into a reliably Democratic state largely immune to Trump-style appeals.

It didn’t end with a centrist Democratic taking the NJ and VA governor’s offices. Pplswar detailed the number of Democratic Socialists that won public office that night, which includes Lee Carter, who won a stunning upset to take a seat in the Virginia legislature.

Democrat Lee Carter, a red-haired, 30-year-old Marine veteran from Manassas, won[url=http://results.elections.virginia.gov/vaelections/2017 November General/Site/GeneralAssembly.html] a remarkable nine-point victory[/url] to oust Delegate Jackson Miller, a deep-pocketed Republican incumbent who serves as House Majority Whip. Carter ran openly as a socialist—he and his supporters crooned the union anthem “Solidarity Forever” after their victory—and he won with almost no institutional support from the state Democratic Party.
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Carter came to his political ideology recently—as in, just last year. “I was actually already running by the time I considered socialism as an economic philosophy,” he told me. “My introduction to it actually came through the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders. He went out there and said, ‘I’m a democratic socialist. Here’s what that means: It means I believe in strong unions, health care for everybody, and an end to discrimination.’ Well, that’s what I believe in, too. I dug a little more into it, and I realized a lot of the problems we have in today’s society reflected in electoral politics are symptoms of economic problems.”

While it is foolish to make any broad pronouncements based on these one-off elections, Dan Scotto notes how this may bode poorly for the Republicans running in the age of Trump:

Gillespie even outpaced his own 2014 Senate bid by raw vote totals across almost the entire state. He got fewer votes in only 7 counties (and cities outside of county rule): Fairfax County, Fairfax City, Arlington County, Alexandria City, Prince William County, Falls Church City, and Winchester City.

Two factors make this worse. First, Gillespie is really a pro. He’s a telegenic, successful former RNC Chair who knows how to run a statewide campaign. And he drowned.

There aren’t many more Ed Gillespie-caliber candidates out there. What you’re actually going to see in 2018 are a bunch of reluctant or weak Republican candidates, knowing that they’re proceeding into a slaughter, facing off against motivated Democratic candidates who have been waiting 10 years for this opportunity. Many vulnerable Republican incumbents or talented potential candidates will sit this one out, choosing to spend more time with their families, or enjoy a cushy six-figure lobbying gig in the swamp.

Second, the same pattern held in both the DC burbs and the non-DC burbs. If this had been limited to Northern Virginia, one might write it off as the backlash of bitter Beltway bandits. But the suburban vote boom occurred throughout the state.

With all this in mind, if the Democrats replicate this sort of turnout balloon in the suburbs in 2018, the wave will be enormous, and the Democrats will emerge in 2019 with a comfortable House majority.

To Republicans: if you don’t fix this, winter is coming.

http://hurryupharry.org/2017/11/10/cracks-in-the-trump-electoral-strategy/

smelly-bandit wrote:
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The main problem for Smelly' and company...

All of that fake news from the Kremlin has been in favour of Team Trump, both during the campaign and now..

Not only does Comrade Smelski call Putin "sir", so does his idol Donnie the Dumpster !

smelly-bandit wrote:Www.cnn.com

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FYI especially delicious fake news look under the tab entitled "Russian trump collusion nothing burger"

CNN is a centre-right capitalist-owned and controlled organisation...

Only in America is it considered a "lefty/liberal-leaning" news source..

For NF's resident white supremacist SmellyFascistTrollski to keep on alluding to CNN as some kind of far-left and communistic "fake news" den,  only goes to show us just how far to the extreme right Smelly' has placed himself.