Last Tuesday in Virginia, the republican party that controlled both houses of the state legislature for the past two decades was swept out of office by the democratic blue wave and gave full control of the government to a democratic governor and a democratic controlled legislature. And late that same evening the democratic blue wave of voters elected the democratic candidate for governor over the present republican governor in the state of Kentucky. President Trump and his VP campaigned in both states for the republican candidates but the voters spoke loud and clear.
The blue wave of voters in those two states continued the blue wave in the November 2018 congressional elections that swept the republican party of their control in the U.S. House in favor of the democratic party. That blue wave vote was so over powering, democrats received 8.6 million more votes than the republican party. And it should be noted that President Trump won both Kentucky and Virginia in the 2016 Presidential election.
So now the battle moves to the Governor's race in Louisiana where Trump and Pence have made 4 appearances for the republican candidate Eddie Rispone and plans to make another appearance before the election. Louisiana's present governor John Bel Edwards is the only democratic governor in a deep south state and the republicans are trying to pull out all the stops. Louisiana's U.S. Senator John Kennedy campaigned with Trump in Louisiana. He is the guy who wanted to run against Edwards and then withdrew because he knew Edwards would beat him like a drum.
Will the democratic blue wave vote extend to the Louisiana elections? Time will tell and we will soon find out if Louisiana's voters learned any thing from the Kentucky and Virginia voters last week.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
