PeterS

In the most surprising twist to yesterday's e******n was the fact that suburbs continued a 2018 trend and abandon DJT. So the people who elected Donald J Trump in 2016 are the ones who are going to wave goodbye to him in 2020. Fitting since Trump continues to pander to his base all while forgetting who really put him in office.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-should-worry-about-swing-state-suburbs-in-2020-2019-11

There's been much discussion of the Republican Party's high-profile losses on Tuesday in Kentucky and Virginia, but historic GOP losses in Pennsylvania might be more concerning for the party in 2020.

The Democrat Andy Beshear, Kentucky's attorney general, beat the incumbent GOP Gov. Matt Bevin, and Virginia Democrats took control of both legislative chambers in the state.

Beshear's victory had much to do with Bevin's status as one of the most unpopular governors in the country (Republicans swept other Kentucky statewide races), and Virginia's blue wave was a long time coming. Neither state will be a battleground in 2020.

But in Pennsylvania, Republicans suffered more surprising — and potentially consequential — losses.

Democrats flipped suburban Delaware County, which has been controlled by Republicans since the Civil War. The county's five-member council, which was filled entirely by Republicans a few years ago, will now be occupied entirely by Democrats.

In Chester County, Democrats took control of the Board of Commissioners and pushed out the Republican district attorney for the first time. Democrats also took the majority of the Bucks County Board of Commissioners.

And in Philadelphia, a third-party candidate from the Working Families Party, Kendra Brooks, won a seat on the City Council reserved for the minority party. It had been held by a Republican for the past 70 years.

"We broke the GOP," Brooks said at an e******n-night party, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. "We beat the Democratic establishment ... They said a black single mom from North Philly wasn't the right person, but we have shown them that we are bigger than them."

Pennsylvania is a key swing state that went for President Donald Trump in 2016 and will be a central battleground state in 2020. T***p w*n the state by less than 1 percentage point — or about 44,000 v**es of the more than 6 million cast — handing him Pennsylvania's 20 e*******l v**es.

Recent polling from The New York Times and Siena College found registered v**ers in Pennsylvania favoring former Vice President Joe Biden over Trump by 3 points, Sen. Bernie Sanders over Trump by 1 point, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren about even with the president. All the results, however, were within the poll's margin of error.

Democrats fear that Trump could again lose the popular v**e by a significant margin but prevail in the E*******l College if an assortment of purple states swing in his favor in 2020.

The suburban v**e is also a point of serious concern for the Republican Party. Democrats are looking to zero in on these v**ers, many of whom are women, moderates, and more affluent college-educated v**ers who went for Trump in 2016.

"Republican support in the suburbs has basically collapsed under Trump," Alex Conant, a Republican strategist, told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "Somehow, we need to find a way to regain our suburban support over the next year."

The trend in Virginia, where Democrats have surged in the northern part of the state and in the Richmond suburbs, also bodes poorly for Republicans, even in right-leaning suburbs.

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

Good night for Republicans in Kentucky and Mississippi!!!

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Ahhh, YESSSS!!!!
One more step towards one party, totalitarian rule over us losers!! Hehehe!!