Kentucky race isn’t official until Trump tweets something critical of Bevin
— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) November 6, 2019
Wonder if Trump will blame Kentucky on McConnell.
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) November 6, 2019
Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale: "The President just about dragged Gov. Matt Bevin across the finish line, helping him run stronger than expected in what turned into a very close race at the end."
— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) November 6, 2019
President Trump yesterday: "You’re sending that big message to the rest of the country, it’s so important… Because if you lose it sends a really bad message. And they will build it up. You can’t let that happen to me.” https://t.co/kL49dDKGEk https://t.co/R6VbW6VLpa
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) November 6, 2019
Fayette County, which is where Trump held his rally last night, voted for Andy Beshear over Matt Bevin in a 2 to 1 landslide pic.twitter.com/LF4mIZ8BxL
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) November 6, 2019
Bevin was the only candidate Trump campaigned for and he lost. That’s the headline.
— Kevin (@kevin_cracknell) November 6, 2019
Hearing that a big reason Trump agreed to go down to do a rally for Bevin in the first place was that Parscale told him that Bevin was up 5. pic.twitter.com/P6cQ6Sf7XG
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) November 6, 2019
A reminder: @MattBevin told me two weeks ago the race wasn’t so close — predicted he’d win by “six to ten percent”https://t.co/07mZ0U8Gsg
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) November 6, 2019
If you lose Covington Catholic… https://t.co/ftVlpfYinR
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) November 6, 2019
Anyway, the thing you need to know about Matt Bevin is that he is such an asshole that a small but significant number of people who genuinely believe Obama was the antichrist and Trump anointed by God still pulled the lever for the other guy.
— Botswana Starfish Totally Not Blackmailing POTUS (@IRHotTakes) November 6, 2019
This dispatch from @timcraigpost last month, when a Republican voter said she wouldn’t vote for Bevin even if Trump personally asked her to do so: “I would tell President Trump to his face, ‘Why are you even supporting this jerk?’?” https://t.co/UPhduPAvV1
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) November 6, 2019
Never overstate a single race. Bevin is a bit toxic. Tried to dismantle popular ACA plan etc. But at the end of the day Trump and Bevin went all in on impeachment and it couldn’t save Bevin in one of the reddest states in the country.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 6, 2019
Folks, Mitch McConnel and Rand Paul must immediately support impeachment. https://t.co/BUpWPd5QFA
— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) November 6, 2019
As a guy working for Senator Cochran when he beat Chris McDaniel and McDaniel refused to concede, here’s a little tip for Matt Bevin: no one cares. Your concession or refusal means nothing. Go get in a fight behind the Waffle House and get over it.
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) November 6, 2019
Whoa, a Kentucky reporter on MSNBC right now just said that Trump’s visit may have energized Democratic voters and help cost the GOP incumbent the election.
— John Aravosis???? (@aravosis) November 6, 2019
R’s are saying that Bevin’s loss doesn’t matter because he was a singularly arrogant executive who picked stupid fights that alienated suburban voters. Oh. I guess that has no applicability to 2020 then. Hmmm. Also, pls explain Virginia.
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) November 6, 2019
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
Dump won Kentucky by 30 pts.
They had a GIANT structural advantage going into this race and they choked.
Total losers.
Sad!
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
Total votes 2015 Kentucky race: 937,994
Total votes 2019 Kentucky race: 1,414,196
So much winning.
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
Mississippi Governor’s Race:
2007: gop +16 pts.
2011: gop +22 pts.
2015: gop +34 pts.
2019: gop .+6 pts.
A 28 point reversal
Patricia Kayden
Poor Republicans. Unless they can suppress minority votes, they can’t win. I’m so happy for Virginia. They can now get gun control legislation passed.
Tony Jay
@David ??Booooooo?? Koch:
I’m just waiting for President Negativity to squeeze out a few tweets blaming Kentucky’s “lazy” voters for making him look bad. I mean, it couldn’t possibly be that his own misrule has turned out huge opposition among the new/infrequent voter slice of the electorate, could it? Nah. It must be the Republican majority (who love him, of course) not listening to his wise words and sitting this one out because, hey, the GOP lose in Kentucky when the country is doing so great? Like that’s gonna happen.
Next November should be fun.
susanna
The DNC might think of using the last two words of trump’s speech, “….for me,” over and over, until it sinks into their pathetic patooties that he’s not into them or America.
Interesting that at least one Ky voter was impressed and possibly swayed by the attention he got from near and far(CA) by Dems. So we folks out here have work to do. And there’s lots of us. Time to get involved and MAKE 2020 flip happen.
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
In Virginia, Democrats are currently leading in 56 House of Delegate races. If that holds, then republicans will have lost 22 mother fucking seats over the last two years.
Gin & Tonic
Up at the ass-crack of pre-dawn to catch my flight, BOS-MEX. See you on the other side.
Gin & Tonic
Luckily my body still thinks it’s in Germany, so getting up now isn’t much of a bother.
opiejeanne
These returns are making me happy tonight. I just hope WA gives us some good news when they finish counting the votes, because right now this blue state is making me nervous.
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
? ? ? ? W A V E ? ? ? ?
OzarkHillbilly
@Tony Jay:
They didn’t follow his great and unmatched wisdom.
TS (the original)
It would seem trump has the ability to GOTV against him. That is such a blessing.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
The Kentucky Senate President has darkly intoned some theory that the election will be contested into the legislature, where both houses are under GOP control. He’s a scion of Clay County, one of the poorest counties in the country, where a few well connected elites sit atop a heap of corruption, poverty, drugs and violence – and his family has been at the top of that heap for generations.
I’ve known him since law school, and counted him as a friend. Here’s what I’ve said to him, directly and in elaboration, clearly and publicly burning a 30-plus year acquaintance:
I’m so disgusted, and will likely lose some other friends over it, but fuck them if they can’t see why I’m so pissed off.
hells littlest angel
If Trump had any class at all, he’d thank Bevin for giving him something besides impeachment to constantly whine about.
OzarkHillbilly
@hells littlest angel: If trump had any class he’d kill himself.
Sab
I have been voting since 1972 and this has never happened before. Everyone and everything I voted for won. Every last one of them. Wow.
JWR
A blast from the (not so distant) past:
via LGM
eta Ewwyyuck! Lindsey’s Twitter uses a photo of him with Bent Kavanaugh for the bio shot.
Sab
@JWR: Lol.
NotMax
Can’t quite decide which of two options will end up playing out.
1) Matt Bevin named ambassador to Ukraine, or
2) Announcement of a mid-season replacement globe-trotting show: Matt Bevin, CSI (Conspiracy Server Investigator)
OzarkHillbilly
@Sab: I once voted for a dead guy. And the dead guy won. John Ashcroft was the LOOOOOOOSER.
@JWR: Would that be the same Lindsey Graham who decided he won’t read any of the transcripts, and dismissed Sondland’s reversal, saying, “I’ve written the whole process off … I think this is a bunch of B.S.” ?
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Graham taking his cue from that harpy Barbara Bush’s “So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?” comment about talk of casualties in Iraq.
Tony Jay
@OzarkHillbilly:
Iz ur Republikanz lernin?
Learning to keep their thick as Dad’s gravy heads down, maybe. Then again, the last time the North American heartland faced a blue wave this big a meteor the size of Manhattan had just landed in the Caribbean Sea.
There’s a “Even those dinosaurs heard that” joke there somewhere.
Ian R
@Sab: Me too, but here in deep blue New Haven, we had all of one theoretically-contested election. (“Theoretically”, because the candidate who lost for mayor tonight lost again against the same person who beat her in the Democratic primary.)
The other two positions, it was just a question of how many people would vote for the same candidate on the Working Family Party line, rather than the Democratic Party line.
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
Good idea, but I can envision two potential problems with that:
1) As with everything he does, he’d probably fuck that up as well
2) What would the Secret Service’s position be on that? “Use lethal force on anyone threatening the life of the preznit”? So does that mean they shoot him in order to save him?
JWR
@OzarkHillbilly:
I think so. It’s hard to tell these days. :)
Ken
@JWR: +1
(Are we getting upvotes when we move to Balloon Juice Platinum?)
Another Scott
@Tony Jay: You rang?:
Yeah, that follows.
Cheers,
Scott.
ET
I wonder how many of those people that turned up to see tRump in Lexington were actually Kentucky voters? I don’t know if the story I was reading finterviewed one of the few tRump zombies not from Kentucky, or of that person was one of many.
Aleta
rikyrah
@David ??Booooooo?? Koch: uh huh ?? ?
Aleta
@Aleta:
In case we missed it, Oct. 28 in the Post:
pinacacci
@Sab: That has got to feel good. And weird.
Miss Bianca
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I love it when you get into a passion. : )
Jackaltariat have a way with words. Congratulations on your new governor! May this be the dawning of a new political age in KY!
J R in WV
3 years ago on election night I went to bed early, unusual for me on an election night, and after drinking more whiskey than usual too. Last night I was exhausted after getting to the hospital at 5:45 am for an MRI on my right knee, which showed that most of my knee cartilage is gone and what remains is bits & pieces in the wrong places, so into bed early again.
But I knew that it was very likely that KY was going to elect a Democrat, and that VA would have a Democratically controlled legislature, so all different.
Slept really well, too, even with letting puppies in and out. Getting up at 3 or 4 am isn’t a big deal when you fall right back to sleep.
columbusqueen
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: You’re the man. Stay strong ? & keep the faith.