DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Renae Erskine hates how disrespectful late-night comedians, the media and congressional Democrats are toward President Trump. As a Trump supporter, she feels elites are disrespecting her, too. ‘We tolerated their choice, why can’t they tolerate ours?’ she demanded. Ms. Erskine, a medical assistant in this Richmond suburb, feels doubly motivated to vote in Virginia’s off-year elections on Tuesday [11-5-19]. ‘I want to keep Republicans in office and I want to keep Trump in office,’ she said. Allen Moser, a Democratic voter who also lives in the suburbs, said he thought the president had committed impeachable acts, and couldn’t understand why congressional Republicans stood behind him…In Virginia, Kentucky and Mississippi on Tuesday, impassioned voters are set to deliver a final multistate report card on Mr. Trump before the 2020 presidential clash, at a time when an impeachment inquiry is galloping ahead in Washington and further splitting voters in a country that has rarely been so polarized.”
–Trip Gabriel, “Virginia’s Legislature Is Up for Grabs. It’s a Referendum on Trump.,” The New York Times online, November 4, 2019