Results Are In: Blue Wave Collapses Under Pressure from Pro-Trump Voters
By Cillian Zeal
May 9, 2018 at 6:56am
The blue wave is to come in November as sure as the sun is going to rise tomorrow, at least if you listen to most mainstream political commentators.
Never mind the fact that President Donald Trump’s poll numbers are up, that the generic Republican vs. generic Democrat polls for this year’s midterms have closed significantly over the past few months and the only two seats the Democrats have managed to pick up in congressional special elections have come with a candidate running against an accused pedophile and a candidate virtually indistinguishable from his Republican counterpart in any of his policy positions. There’s going to be a blue wave, dagnabbit, and it’s going to crush both the GOP and the president’s agenda.
While special elections are all well and good, Tuesday was the beginning of the election season proper. Primaries were held in several key states, and the takeaway didn’t exactly look like a blue wave.
The night’s most watched race was in West Virginia, where coal executive, convicted criminal and general annoyance Don Blankenship was tipped by the media as the favorite in the GOP primary race that will produce a challenger for Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin in a state Trump won by 42 points.
Blankenship called himself “Trumpier than Trump,” although his only real campaign position seemed to be a strident objection to political correctness which verged upon vulgarity. His television ads called Sen. Mitch McConnell “Cocaine Mitch” and his “China family” (McConnell’s better half, and I mean that in every sense, is Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, who immigrated to the United States from Taiwan early in her life).
When confronted about this, Blankenship decided to insert his foot deeper into his mouth. “Races are negro, white Caucasian, Hispanic, Asian,” he said when he addressed those who called him racist over the “China family” ads. “There’s no mention of a race. I’ve never used a race word.”
Issues of political correctness aside, Blankenship was clearly a self-sabotaging candidate with more money than sense who didn’t want to change Washington so much as see his name written large in lights. That’s really what he thought Trump was all about. And the media would have loved to have been along for the ride.
Unfortunately for both of them, President Trump knew exactly what Blankenship was up to and warned voters off of Blankenship.
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