Kentucky Has Gone Blue! Trumpers The Future Is Now

 

How sweet! Looks like a Trump-loving governer in a blood-red state that Trump won by 30 points has been defeated in an off-year election. Trump invested a lot of political capital in Bevin including campaigning in the state for him. What a humiliating defeat for Trump.  

 

Mcconnell's butt must be puckering right now as he contemplates his own political future. Once you taint yourself with Trump stink it can't be scraped off even in a Red State.

 

Democrats also took the Virginia Senate. 

Edited on Nov 5, 2019 7:28pm

No state benefited more from the Obamacare Medicad expansion than Kentucky.  And Bevin spent his entire tenure trying and successfully rolling back 30k of his constituents from healthcare access to it..

 

Pretty good bet all of those 30k voters went for his opponent tonight.   

 

 

Yeah, that always struck me as rich. Tucky Buckford voted for Trump and Trump kept Tucky from getting health care.

 

They're not too bright in Kentucky. In a 2014 poll, a majority said they didn't like Obamacare but they did like Medicaid--even though the latter program is part of the former. DAWWWWWK!

 

All of the governors that refused the 2014 Medicaid expansion because of some bizarre fealty to ideological purity betrayed their constituents. Who were they to say their constituents couldn't have health care? The issue nearly got Arizona's governor toppled, until she hastily reversed herself after getting tens of thousands of angry letters from her blue-haired constituents--many of whom had been on AZ's Medicaid waiting list for two or more years.

 

We can expect our Trumpers to chime in here with something like it's all FAKE NOOZE or the election was rigged or Hillary sent emails, or something. I don't know if this is an indicator of things to come. We really don't know (yet) how many Republicans have answered MAGAMAGAMAGAMOMMYMOMMYMOMMYWAAAH! to polls but are secretly disgusted with Trump and don't intend to vote for him or the Republican stooge party. Maybe this result is a bellwether.

 

There's also another disaffected group, part of which lives in Kentucky--all those coal miners and factory workers that Trump told he was going to turn their lives into Nirvana. Trump's done absolutely nothing for them, except to impose tariffs that resulted in mass layoffs and crippled American industry.

Bevin was in trouble due to his own problems.  He was trailing by double digits & may lose by less than 1 point.  The Republicans won the other 5 statewide offices, including a black AG.

 

 

 

 


Originally posted by: tom

Bevin was in trouble due to his own problems.  He was trailing by double digits & may lose by less than 1 point.  The Republicans won the other 5 statewide offices, including a black AG.

 

 

 

 


Tom, what were his problems? A governing style like Trump? An ability to say stupid things like Trump or was it his fawning love of Trump? The difference between that race and the others in the state was Bevin nationalized his reelection and made it a referendum on Trump.  His closing argument was if you like Trump vote for me because the other guy doesn't like Trump. Trump and McConnell both campaigned for him. 

Originally posted by: Mark

Tom, what were his problems? A governing style like Trump? An ability to say stupid things like Trump or was it his fawning love of Trump? The difference between that race and the others in the state was Bevin nationalized his reelection and made it a referendum on Trump.  His closing argument was if you like Trump vote for me because the other guy doesn't like Trump. Trump and McConnell both campaigned for him. 


He would have won if Trump had just kept his mouth shut and stayed out of Kentucky.

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