Remember When Mid-term Elections Were Touted As A “Referendum” On Trump?
Yesterday the Democrats in Louisiana were decimated in a broad election and the MSM were quite as church mice —
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The last of the Louisiana state election numbers are in, and it's not pretty for the Democrats.
Not only does its moderate Democratic governor, John Bel Edwards, face a runoff, as noted here, but the state Senate has taken a supermajority. And a whole bunch of key state offices went squarely to Republicans. Funny how the press isn't covering this much.
But Guy Benson at Townhall is, and he found a Democratic Party "decimated":
Among statewide office-holders, the incumbent GOP Lieutenant Governor (68 percent), Attorney General (66 percent), Treasurer (60 percent, and Agricultural Commissioner (58 percent) were all re-elected without the need for a run-off, under the state's 'jungle primary'-style system. It also appears that the solid Republican majorities in both state legislative chambers will remain intact — with the GOP expanding its Senate advantage into super-majority territory by picking up a pair of Democratic seats:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog...s_roll_in.html
Oh, and btw, President Trump held a massive rally in the state the day before the election, and the next day the off year election saw record voting totals.
It gets worse for Democrats, when you look deeper —
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... John Couvillon, a Louisiana-based pollster who surveyed the field extensively, said Republican gains came in districts that had long voted for Democratic legislators, even as they became more culturally conservative — so-called ancestrally Democratic regions in rural areas north and west of Lafayette.
"These parishes had never before given Republicans legislative candidates serious consideration," Couvillon wrote, even though President Trump won all three with more than 60 percent of the vote in 2016...
