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but wasn t the balance if he did embrace the president too much it will drive away more. that s the problem, so ed gillespie couldn t be too hot or too cold. but he ran the trump play book on messaging. he ran against he treated northam like it was it was trumpism without trump. he ran as if northam was supporting pedestrian files and supporti supporting gangs. those were his ads, and northam was on his back most of the race trying to say i don t support pedestrian files, or gangs. northam wore a military uniform and served in military, wen to vmi, was a democrat and able to see through that. i m wondering what you think of what david is saying? i think you re giving way too much credit to the race, this is not a presidential race that ....
Seat before that. now objectives in a very competitive state there are commonwealth of virginia, cnn projecting the ralph northam, the democratic lieutenant governor will win. it has to be seen to a degree as a rejection of president trump who is the strongest prevailing political figure in the country. if you look at who turned down according to the exit polls and how often people who voted for trump voted gillespie and how many opposed trump voted for northam. that is a strong sign of the rejection of trump. t also a sign of gres piece, pretty much up until the last two months known as a member of the republican establishment, someone who worked for judge w bush s white house. but in the last couple months run the campaign when it comes to a television ad it was ....
From the other fashion we would have done better. if northam had lost you would have heard that from democrats. but on the question of trump, one of the most interesting things in this exit poll, when you said issues matter most in your vote for governor, the most important issue was healthcare. healthcare wasn t an issue in the governor s race. that tells me a lot of people were motivated not by the state issues as much as let me add to that. this is the point i wanted to make. the republicans should take for this race, the underlying issues made it hard for gillespie to win. yes, it was trump s twitter but they didn t get healthcare or taxes done. the reports on tacks have not been favorable, and he doesn t look like he s effectively governing. i think that is the hope if i m ....
Surprise that the democrats won in both states. right. i think we re learning tonight some old rule of politics still pl apply. you have a president who is at the lowest approval ratings and you re having a voter reaction to that. it s actually not that complicated. you think this does have something to do with trump? absolutely. take a look. 33% of voters who went to the polls in virginia say they went in opposite of trump. those voters, 98% voted for northam. only 17%, that went in opposition went in support. they were a far smaller share. there s clearly a trump factor here. he s under water by 13 points in virginia. there s a trump factor in new jersey, but some old rules apply. you have a really unpopular president of one party, the ....
Unsteady on his feet in a lot of democrats. i think we re going to see a lot of people talk about demographic. one thing we want to look at are the african-american voters. northam had some challenges, right in terms of race, in terms of whether or not to embrace a lieutenant governor candidate who was just in fairfax, we ll see what that did if anything to the african-american vote. i think overall we re seeing how difficult it is for democrats to run in this cultural environment of the kind that donald trump has created this go around. around the nfl, around statutes robert e. lee, aren t sanction rare cities that s something gillespie m embraced. we ghot to take a quick break. we re less than an hour away from president trump s speech of north korea crises. ....