Virginia Republicans will get the first opportunity to plot the future of their party after President Trump leaves the White House next year in a competitive gubernatorial contest that will be seen as an early indication of the nation’s shifting political winds.
The Republicans who run are likely to face an electorate furious over their loss in this year’s elections, steamed at a Democratic-controlled legislature that has advanced gun safety legislation and livid at outgoing Gov. Ralph Northam (D), who has ordered lockdowns in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
Their anger, activists said, is going to drive the battle for the Republican nomination.
“There are a lot of pissed off, hostile Republicans who are upset about multiple things,” said John Massoud, a town councilor in Strasburg, Va., and a member of the state Republican Party’s executive committee. “The person who taps into that anger and comes up with the right positive solutions for how to take Virginia forward will do very well come the nomination season and come November next year.”
“Virginia Republicans will get the first opportunity to plot the future of their party after President Trump leaves the White House next year…”
Please tell me what makes these clowns so confident that President Trump will be leaving “next year?” Stupid idiots!