Don’t responsible President Donald Trump for the difficulties Democrats are currently facing in November.
The second significant evaluation of the GOP’s power since Trump’s return to power will take place in New Jersey and Virginia this fall, just before the midterm elections in the next year.
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Virginia should be favorable territory even though Republicans often anticipate an uphill battle in New Jersey, given that the GOP already has won every state office that simply four years ago with Glenn Youngkin on the ballot.
However, Youngkin and firm are on the verge of robbing Virginia to the Democrats this year, not Trump.
A story of shoddy inheritance and subpar intra-party competition is what went wrong.
Democrats across the country should take note of the self-immolation of the Virginia party.
The GOP’s openly gay member for commander chancellor, John Reid, is not the great story.
It’s not even the part Youngkin and the Spirit of Virginia PAC leader, who has since had to withdraw, played in the botched efforts to get Reid to withdraw.
The lieutenant governor’s race, along with Reid’s visible quirks with drag queens and sex, is a show: the civilization that matters most is for chancellor. Sex and betrayal make excellent headlines.
Winsome Earle-Sears, Youngkin’s lieutenant governor, is expected to receive her move at the top of the seat with phrase limits preventing him from succeeding himself.
And she has: The primary is set for the following month, but she is the default nominee because Earle-Sears ‘ rivals left before the deadline to appear on the ballot.
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There is actually no primary election major for any state, despite the writing-in plan attempt by businessman John Curran, a challenger to Reid who previously failed.
Like many others, Republicans in Virginia believe that opposition is acceptable except in their own tribes.
And the main political parties, which were up until recently the Christian right and the country club centrists, have much preferred to resolve disagreements outside of primary elections.
Reid appeared unbeatable before the Youngkin group exposed his antics because he is a talk-radio number well-known to the nationalist right, but the group’s attitude of quashing opposition even lasted until Youngkin’s coterie changed their minds ( and changed it too soon ): Reid is still probably unmatched in the main, but is now much weaker in the general election.
Each well-managed party chose not to hold a principal fight, so they all managed to avoid one, moving to Earle-Sears as the standing ovation for the marquee on the ticket.
That was an error.
Four years ago, Earle-Sears was comforting to the party’s right wing as a black woman ( and immigrant from Jamaica ) in the post-George Floyd era who had served in the United States Marine Corps and was outspokenly pro-gun rights and anti-abortion.
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Although she had served two decades in the House of Delegates in the early 2000s, centrists may have thought of her as uneducated, but Youngkin’s bandwagon with centrists helped Earle-Sears and the rest of the party to win.
But, Earle-Sears made some rookie mistakes while in office, including trying to appeal to moderates who weren’t so interested in her and losing support from right-wingers, particularly once she began to express her views on national politics.
” I was no hardly back him. She explained to Fox News in 2022 about the possibility of another Trump pay for the White House.” I really don’t.
A real chief comprehends when they have turned into liabilities, she said.
By the time Trump locked up the GOP nomination for president last year, she had changed, but the harm to MAGA citizens had already been done.
The end result was that Earle-Sears continued to be in a position of challenger advantage or to gain reformers in the same way Youngkin did.
Her answer to the Reid discussion has also alienated both Democrats who want to cut things off and those who want to run for lieutenant governor.
” John Reid is the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant.” Governing authority He has the sole right to advance, she said on Twitter. We each have a different race to work.
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In all first polls, she trails the presumably Democratic candidate, Abigail Spanberger, by an average of roughly 7 points.
Both Reid and Earle-Sears needed the kind of thorough examination they would have received in a key that was aggressive.
A difficult main may have weakened the subsequent nominees, but they would scarcely be weaker than they are today, and early disclosure of their vulnerabilities might have helped the party choose better.
Elections can be erratic, but if the GOP wants to avoid a defeat the following month, it will have to place its candidates under stricter scrutiny than Virginia primaries.
Editor’s Note: The major media continues to divert, gasp, roll, and rest.  ,
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