Republicans Assess the Electoral Battlefield

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Election Post-Mortem for GOP

The prevailing opinion within political analyst circles is that the GOP should be worried for the 2018 midterms.

Voters rejected the Republican tickets up and down the ballot box in Virginia. From the State House to the Governorship, the GOP took heavy losses. Forty-seven percent of Virginia voters disapprove of Trump. Ninety-five percent of them voted for the Northam, the Democrat governor-elect.

Furthermore, Democrats might be tied with Republicans in the Virginia House of Delegates.

College-educated whites voted in favor of Trump by four points in 2016. This time, they went with Northam by three points. That marks a significant voting bloc that was willing to switch sides over their anger towards the President.

Voters Punish Republicans for Trump

“Voters are taking their anger out at the president, and the only way they can do that is by going after Republicans on the ballot,” said Representative Charlie Dent (R-PA).

Democrats also made serious gains in Washington State and in Nassau and Westchester Counties in New York. They have total control of governance on the west coast of the country. Their gains outside of New York City were had been leaning red just months ago.