Congressman, the issues were all watching besides trump is issue of the confederate statues. 3 of 5 people in virginia including all races and genders were for keeping the statues the way they are, dont want changes, yet that was position of gillespie the republican. Position of the democratic candidate northam was get them all down. Thats how he started anyway. Says to me, voters said thats where i am on this issue, didnt vote on this issue. It was not the issue. But gillespie and trump. Gillespie didnt know who trump was in Northern Virginia but ran a Television Ad campaign that absolutely invoked worst of the trump campaign. Southerner . This time it didnt work. Catholic guy who grew up in new jersey running down there waving the flag of stonewall
a controversial president in byelection. Anybody with any problems with the government party, any problem they lay on you. Right . Absolutely right. You take all the hell with trumps name on it. And historically thats how virginia performs
gun policy in the news with tragedy in texas, split. half the people saying guns were issue, voting for gillespie, half voting for northam. different motivations. taxes, bread and butter issue. and immigration, what gillespie was playing up. republican voters here, gillespie voters. and interesting result. gillespie ran on the issue of heritage, he called it, confederate monuments, shouldn t be torn down, asked this question, confederate monuments on government property, what should be done? 38% remove, almost 60% with gillespie on that. leave them in place. gillespie was trying to build a winning coalition out of that percent but didn t materialize, biggest issue wasn t in the exit poll, might just have been donald trump himself.
voting against property tax deductions in their tax bill and they have high property taxes in the suburban areas, and they always like any normal person would, at least i can write it off my federal income tax. not now. they re going to find a way to get a deal on that, make it more acceptable to folks. you utake a way the property tax deduction to a guy, a woman who owns aous. they re going to get a property tax deduction. what they re not going to get is the state and local taxes. that s where it s going to be the rub. no. they re not going to get a property tax deduction. that s not going to be sufficient for the people who enjoy it. look, i think what s interesting tonight, you look at the suburbs of washington where ed gillespie ran and did quite well when he ran against mark warner. he got 20 points less in the vote this in this election than he did when he ran against warner. and that was truly in prince william. it was true in loudoun county. it was true in fairfax
they re going to get it but not state or estate. that s the rub. no. that s not sufficient. what is interesting about tonight. look at suburbs of washington where ed gillespie ran and did quite well, ran against mark warner. 20 points less in the vote in this election than he did when he ran against warner. that was true in prince william county, fairfax, the ed gillespie that ran last time was establishment republican. republican running for election in reasonable state, not far right, reasonable state. have donald trump s face on your literature? probably not. not only because trumpism lost tonight but there s this idea that republicans have always been kind of not in donald trump s corner. he beat them to win, not join