Olde Hornet
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Analysis: Trump's GOP has no answer for suburban slide
The suburban revolt against President Donald Trump's Republican Party is growing. In Kentucky, Trump and his allies went all in to rescue embattled Gov. Matt Bevin, who wrapped himself in the president's image in his pugnacious campaign. In Virginia, embattled Republicans ran away from Trump...
NEW YORK (AP) — The suburban revolt against President Donald Trump's Republican Party is growing.
And if nothing else, the GOP's struggle across the South on Tuesday revealed that Republicans don't have a plan to fix it.
In Kentucky, Trump and his allies went all in to rescue embattled Gov. Matt Bevin, who literally wrapped himself in the president's image in his pugnacious campaign. In Virginia, embattled Republicans ran away from Trump, downplaying their support for his policies and encouraging him to stay away.
In the end, neither strategy was a sure winner.
Bevin's race was too close to call Tuesday night, locked in a virtual dead heat with Democrat Andy Beshear in a state Trump won by nearly 30 percentage points in 2016. The GOP in Virginia lost control of both houses of the legislature for the first time in a generation.
