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President Trump speaks from the Roosevelt Room on Nov. 28 next to the empty chairs symbolizing absent Democratic leaders. President Trump's initial reaction to the Democrats' win in the Alabama special election on Tuesday night was uncharacteristically gracious - humble even, by his standards.
The pundits and the analysts will have a field day figuring out what just happened on Tuesday night, when Democrats won handily in off-year elections. So handily that the vote is being called a "wave" election, the sort that results in power changing hands on a large scale.
President Trump's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Election Day began with a promise on Twitter, that if Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie were to be elected, he would "totally turn around the high crime and poor economic performance of VA." It ended in a different fashion, with a complaint, also expressed on the social media platform: Gillespie, "did not embrace me or what I stand for."
President Donald Trump is more popular with likely voters than he is with the general public, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that underscores why Republican lawmakers have largely stuck with the polarizing president despite his plunging approval ratings. U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. first lady Melania Trump look at the relics as they tour the Conservation Scientific Laboratory of the Forbidden City in Beijing, China November 8, 2017.
US Democrat Ralph Northam has defeated Republican Ed Gillespie in the race for the governorship of Virginia, marking his party's first major Trump-era victory. The results in the state were replicated in several contests across America on Tuesday as the Trump resistance struck back at the US president's nationalist rhetoric.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events. Higher enthusiasm and polarization were the key features of Tuesday's gubernatorial election in Virginia, suggesting that President Trump has energized voters on all sides.
President Trump tried to distance himself from Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie on Twitter late Tuesday, after Democratic candidate and Virginia Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam won the state's highly contested governor's race .
In this Tuesday, March 21, 2017, file photo, Republican gubernatorial candidate, Ed Gillespie, listens to a question during a kitchen table discussion at a private home in Toano, Va. By embracing the political priorities of President Trump, he figured, he could help bolster enthusiasm from Trump-supporting voters who'd nearly blocked his nomination to be the Republican nominee for governor in Virginia.
A voter fills out a ballot on the first day of early voting at the Hamilton County Board of Elections in Cincinnati, Ohio, last month. But in an era when, to flip an old phrase, all politics is national, these low-profile, low-turnout elections might have a lot more to say about the direction of the country than may have been the case just a few years ago.
In New Jersey, Democrat Phil Murphy, a former Goldman Sachs executive and Obama administration ambassador to Germany, holds a double-digit lead in most polls over Republican Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno.
Republican Ed Gillespie and Democrat Ralph Northam both claim momentum is on their side with one day to go before Election Day in Virginia's high-stakes, closely watched race for governor. The candidates are racing across the state Monday after a weekend spent trying to trying to rally supporters ahead of the Tuesday vote.
The centerpiece of Republican gubernatorial nominee Ed Gillespie's economic plan is an across-the-board tax cut he says will spur tens of thousands of new jobs - but he promises it will take effect only if it doesn't break the budget. Ralph Northam, his Democratic opponent, says it's a given that tax cuts will hurt the state's bottom line.
If you're looking for one race this fall to tell you what people make of the first year of the Trump presidency, your best bet is the Virginia governor's race where next week, voters will choose between Democrat Ralph Northam and Republican Ed Gillespie. The race has long looked like Northam's to lose.
One of President Trump's most fervent fans hopped onto his Harley in South Carolina and roared all the way to Virginia Beach, where he led a "Bikers for Trump" rally Sunday for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie. Except Gillespie wasn't there, irking some Trump supporters who say the Republican has been too stand-offish toward the president.
The breakfasters at Bob and Edith's Diner are too preoccupied with their tasty bacon and eggs to notice the Democratic gubernatorial candidate. Or perhaps, like all Americans who are more sensitive than oysters, they are in the throes of political exhaustion and are trying to ignore this year's only competitive gubernatorial race.
Virginia Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam is bearing the collective hopes and fears of an anxious Democratic Party in the race to replace term-limited Gov. Terry McAuliffe , a race that has become the most significant contest on the November ballot.