As 2020 approaches, the White House makes clear it plans no course correction despite setbacks in Tuesday's vote, most notably in suburban battlegrounds.
giving the party full control of the state’s government and solidifying what had once been a swing state as a stronghold for the party.of results that showed him more than 5,000 votes behind Beshear, who has declared victory. With 100% of precincts reporting, Beshear led by a little over 5,000 votes out of more than 1.4 million counted, or a margin of less than 0.4 percentage points.
“It means we’re bleeding in suburban areas, again,” said Sarah Chamberlain, president of the Republican Main Street Partnership, an organization of centrist GOP lawmakers. “We have to be aware that suburban women are no longer voting for the Republican Party.” But the Trump campaign, which did not moderate despite the 2018 midterm defeats, signaled Wednesday that it would continue on the same track, believing that the president will come out from the impeachment inquiry unscathed, will wield a massive financial advantage over his eventual Democratic opponent and will firmly take control of the race once the field officially narrows to the two nominees next year.
“To those who want to win nationally with a whole lotta votes, pay attention,” said Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat who represents a swing district in the suburbs of Richmond, Virginia. “People want us to act, to focus on solving problems, not be the most ideologically pure.”“I think that augers very well for us in 2020, if we nominate somebody who can win tough states, and Kentucky’s a really tough state,” he said.
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