Well, Donald had a kind of victory tonight. He loves a landslide. God knows he loves a landslide, he talks of little else, other than his other favorite word, “mandate.” And tonight both happened in the State of Virgina — except not for him. So how, I ask you now, how precisely is Trump going to spin this one? I suspect we’ll get the usual *stollen* election and cheating, how could we not? It will be amusing to hear what his excuses are. I can hardly wait. Daily Beast:
Democrats are celebrating victory in Virginia as their candidate for governor is projected to win at the top of the ticket in Tuesday’s election, turning the state leadership from red to blue.
Voters headed to the polls to cast ballots in what was the first major election since President Donald Trump won a year ago, and Democrats had been looking to get back in the game after a series of brutal setbacks.
While Virginia’s elections do not always serve as a bellwether for the following year’s midterms, the contests on Tuesday have been seen as a referendum on Trump.
Leading up to and on Election Day, the president fired off a series of social media posts begging his followers in the state to show up and cast ballots for Republicans.
With the polls now closed, Democrat Abigail Spanberger is projected to become the state’s next governor, winning the election against Republican nominee and current Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears.
She is the first woman governor elected by the commonwealth.
Spanberger is a former House member who represented Virginia’s seventh congressional district until earlier this year. She previously served as a U.S. intelligence officer.
The race has largely focused on the economy and Trump’s policies, as Virginia serves as the backyard to Washington, DC.
And that is the takeaway here. What’s going on in neighboring D.C. is abhorrent to Virginians and they let it be known. I keep going over to Truth Social to see what Trump has put up by the way of election commentary and it is silent as the tomb over there. He has posted in the past few hours about what a terrific job Sean Duffy is doing, as if anybody cares about that, and several hours ago he made a last minute plea to New Jersey voters to get out and vote for the Republican there.
But nada on Virginia. And I suspect that it will remain that way as Donald goes into denial. If this election tonight is a precursor to the 2026 midterms, then Trump is toast. Burnt toast. He can look forward to a House (possibly a Senate but definitely a House) in Democratic hands and being stonewalled his last two years. And his chances of getting the 22nd Amendment repealed are laughable, but then that particular flare is only being lit for propaganda purposes, to keep people paranoid and depressed.
Let the Republicans be depressed for a change. God knows we’ve spent long enough feeling that way. Doesn’t victory feel good?
Is this happiness or schadenfreude?
Both.
yes, it is.