Here’s a telling statistic: In Virginia and New Jersey, Democrats spent $18 million on campaign ads that mentioned President Donald Trump while Republicans spent just $1.3 million on advertisements that invoked the title of the person who completely dominates their get together.
That could be a fairly good indication that the important thing issue that produced the Democrats’ sweep of elections from New Jersey and Virginia to California Tuesday evening was animosity towards Trump. Positive, persons are upset in regards to the financial system, however Individuals are nearly all the time grumbling in regards to the financial system. In line with exit polls, it was anger on the would-be autocrat within the White Home that was motivating the most important share of voters.
The purest expression of this anger came in California, where just a single issue was on the ballot: a suspension of a bipartisan redistricting regime that can permit the Democrat-controlled legislature to redraw the traces of congressional districts to make it possible Republicans will lose 5 seats within the U.S. Home of Representatives. The profitable measure, Prop. 50, was Gov. Gavin Newsom’s direct response to the Republican Texas legislature’s gerrymandering of districts within the Lone Star State to steal 5 U.S. Home seats from Democrats — a political stunt concocted by Trump.
In an unusually excessive turnout of voters, Californians handed Prop. 50 by a landslide 65%, enthused by the prospect to tackle Trump in a down-and-dirty redistricting rumble. One voter ready in an impressively lengthy line at a polling station advised an MSNBC reporter he was keen to attend for hours to solid his vote; he mentioned he was there to defend his freedom.
The financial system is a perennially compelling concern, however, when voters really feel their liberties being taken away, freedom trumps some other concern. If Tuesday’s Democratic victories are any indication, “No Kings” would be the Democrats’ best rallying cry in subsequent yr’s midterm elections.
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