Today’s off-year elections are state and local affairs, but they will still tell us something about the national political scene one year before the 2020 elections.
WASHINGTON – Today’s off-year elections are state and local affairs, but they will still tell us something about the national political scene one year before the 2020 election.
Democrats say Bevin had no choice but to run on Trump’s coattails after his criticism of teachers and the actions he’s taking on health care and public employee pensions have made him one of the nation’s most unpopular governors. Mississippi and Louisiana governor racesLouisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, the only Democratic governor in the Deep South, won’t find out his fate this week. After he failed to win a majority of the votes in the October “jungle primary,” Edwards faces Republican businessman Eddie Rispone in a Nov. 16 runoff.
A candidate with Edwards’ approval rating and track record would have been easily re-elected 20 years ago, said Kyle Kondik, who analyzes elections at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. Democrats say that the fact that all three governors races are close shows that they can compete anywhere with the right candidates focused on local issues.
The party and their allies are outspending Republicans in today’s showdown for control of the Virginia legislature, the only state with legislative races on the ballot where party control could flip. In the mirror opposite of the situation in the Kentucky governor’s race, Republicans complain that Virginia Democrats only want to talk about Trump and impeachment while their candidates are focusing on local issues.
The Republican speaker of the House, Kirk Cox, is being challenged by a woman whose daughter survived a 2016 shooting. The Democrat challenging the Republican state senator who represents Virginia Beach ran an ad featuring a woman who was in the city building there when the shooter attacked. “I think, for the most part, Democrats have overplayed their hands,” he said. “They’ve tried to make this entire election about gun control.”
Edwards’ expansion of Medicaid in Louisiana was the signature accomplishment of his first term and he’s hammering his GOP challenger for calling for a “freeze” to check whether those enrolled actually qualify. Another ad by the Republican Governors Association, this one in Louisiana, also shows the Democratic debate stage while referencing some of the presidential candidates’ support for Medicare for All.
And a “national week of action” held in the runup to today’s election includes a dry run of their get-out-the-vote effort.
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