Conservatives learn the wrong lesson from GOP defeat in Virginia
If the reaction of the eminent right -wing media figures is an indication, the conservatives find it difficult to deal with the resounding loss of the Republican candidate Ed Gillespie during the elections of governors of Virginia on Tuesday.
We can start with Ann Coulter.
Hey @EDWGILLESPIE! If your friends, George Bush and Haley Barbour, had been a little less enthusiastic about the open borders, you would have won tonight.
– Ann Coulter (@anncoulter) November 8, 2017
If @Realdonaldtrump Do not hold its campaign promise to build a wall and expel illegal, which has happened to VA will happen to the whole country.
– Ann Coulter (@anncoulter) November 8, 2017
The right-wing Talk show host Laura Ingraham echoes these thoughts, saying to her audience on Tuesday evening: “Gillespie never jumped on the Trump train. It is an old bush hand. I think he gave his best blow. He is who he is – not a populist curator. ”
Sean Moran from Breitbart had a similar socket.
“The defeat of Virginia Republican of the candidate for governor Ed Gillespie against Ralph Northam represents a repudiation of the republican establishment; Gillespie lost by more points than Donald Trump and Ken Cuccinelli,” wrote Moran on Wednesday.
Other conservative experts have tried to paint the republican disaster in Virginia as a question of demography rather than something specific about Trump.
“The massacre of Tuesday evening is more a representation of the rapidly evolving demographic data of Virginia has made it a solid blue condition – whatever Trump,” wrote Scott Greer of the Daily Caller.
Likewise, Doug Schoen of Fox News wrote that Virginia is now an “apparently reliable blue condition”, attributing the loss of Gillespie to the fact that the minorities have proven to be large for the Democratic candidate Ralph Northam. Schoen acknowledged that “as President Trump was a factor in the elections, he was a major negative for Gillespie’s candidacy”.
Among the Republican politicians, the president of the chamber Paul Ryan said to an audience Wednesday, “that does not change my reading at the current moment.”
He added: “I fundamentally believe, when we deliver a complete tax reform and tax alternatives … I think it will bear fruit politically, but above all, it will help people.”
Likewise, a source close to Trump’s political team told the conservative newspaper The Washington to examine that the loss of Gillespie and that of Kim Guadagno, the republican candidate to the governor in New Jersey, could be attributed to “local dynamics” and “history”.
“These are blue states that the president did not win last year. It is not the president,” the source told the examiner.
