It appears that two so-called establishment Republicans running for Governor this year have decided to run their campaigns out of the Trumpster playbook.
Chinless Ed Gillespie in Virginia — who is about as establishment as they come, having served in the George W. Smirky Administration and as chair of the Republican National Committee — is running an ad demonizing his Democratic opponent, Lt. Governor Ralph Northam, as the kind of guy who wants evil illegals to be able rape and pillage their way across the Old Dominion.
Kim Guadagno, Chris Christie's hapless would-be successor in New Jersey, is on the air with a similar spot. In short, both Gillespie and Guadagno have chosen to try to stoke the Trumpian fires of white fear and resentment in an attempt to ride to victory.
Call us cats mildly surprised. We would have assumed that both Republican candidates would try to run to the center in their blue-slash-purple states. But they've decided otherwise — and in Gillespie's case, he's gone all-out pro-Confederate-statues, too, apparently trying to nail down the support of the Tiki Torch Brigade.
So we're wondering what's going on here. What makes Gillespie and Guadagno think that kowtowing to the narrow, evil Republican base will make them winners on November 7?
We can only think of one answer: Vladimir told them so. We cats HISS.
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