Democrat Ralph Northam won a much bigger than expected victory (Dems are also expected to sweep the Lt. Governor and Attorney General races as well. In one closely watched race, transgender Virginia Democrat Danica Roem defeated powerful long- time Republican skunk and "chief homophobe" Del. Bob Marshall (see tweet below). Additional pickups in the Virginia state Senate and House of Delegates are expected tonight as well, possibly flipping the lower chamber to Democratic control.*
As expected, Democrat Phil Murphy won the gubernatorial race in New Jersey, defeating Republican Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno.
Well done, Virginia and New Jersey! Suck on that, Republicans!
*UPDATE: David Wasserman at Five Thirty Eight --
Again, I never thought I’d be saying this, but by my back-of-the-envelope count, Democrats are currently in the lead to pick up Virginia’s House of Delegates. They started the night with 34 of 100 seats and have already picked up 12 GOP-held seats. There are eight more GOP-held seats that are still too close to call, and Democrats are currently in the lead in six of them. If those leads hold, the speaker of Virginia’s House of Delegates in 2018 will be a Democrat. Given the GOP’s aggressive gerrymander of Virginia’s delegate districts in 2011, this is what you’d call a tidal wave. (our emphasis)
UPDATE II:
Thoughts and prayers to all the Republican politicians who lost their seats today. We won't do anything to prevent it from happening again.— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) November 8, 2017
UPDATE III: Re the Danica Roem/ Bob Marshall race --
The man who wrote the anti-trans bathroom bill just lost the election to a trans woman. Let that sink in. https://t.co/KFEZXSYvMy— Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) November 8, 2017
When Dems come out on Election Day, we always win!!
ReplyDeleteIn Virginia especially to come out in an off- off- year election in miserable weather conditions and deliver a smashing blow to Republicans all down the ticket is a thing of beauty, Diva!
ReplyDeletetransgender Virginia Democrat Danica Roem defeated powerful long- time Republican skunk and "chief homophobe" Del. Bob Marshall
ReplyDeleteA satisfying outcome indeed, in what was once the heart of the Confederacy.
Now I'm off to the wingnut side of the net to watch them all fighting over whether Gillespie lost because he was too nutty or not nutty enough. Breitbart is already repudiating the candidate Bannon had endorsed. Infighting among the bad guys is the icing on the cake.
Infidel - it was quite a night, to say the least.
ReplyDeleteConfession: wingnut infighting stimulates our erogenous zones!