Goodness gracious, but Republican Congresswoman Barbara Comstock of Virginia has had a bad week — starting with last Tuesday's primary.
That day, a fringe-y hater edged out a more establishment-y but still pretty wacko dude for the Republican nomination for Senate against Tim Kaine. Which means that with a racist Johnny Reb-wannabe at the top of the GOP ticket in Virginia this fall, Republicans are frantic that revulsion against him will hurt their Congressional candidates.
That all took place, of course, before the avalanche of outrage that we're seeing over families being separated at the border. Republicans running for re-election across the country who are not rabid racists — at least, not publicly — are petrified. Ensconced in her comfortable, suburban-mom-laden Loudon County, Comstock must be dreading the idea of having to defend cages for crying children. (And it's probably not be the right time for her to haul her old "Aren't I a good mother" campaign spot out of mothballs.)
So Comstock can probably count on all this to depress her vote — or to add a few points to Jennifer Wexton's victory margin — or both.
Yep, we said victory margin. Because today the nonpartisan Cook Political Report changed the rating on Comstock's race from "toss up" to "lean Democratic." Like we said, a bad week for Babs.
When the Trumpsters torture children and lie about it, and all the former First Ladies slam your guy in the White House, and even Ted Cruz is forced to look like he cares, it's pretty tough to thread that needle to winning in November. We cats PURR.
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