Ed Gillespie

Virginia election officials were still tabulating votes, though it was obvious Trump's candidate, Ed Gillespie was losing badly, when Trump reacted with the tweet above, hoping people wouldn'tt see his unblemished record as a kiss-of-death endorser in GOP primaries and in general elections.

Progressives had an opportunity to deliver a “massive repudiation of Donald Trump“—and of Trumpism more broadly—Tuesday night with gubernatorial and state legislature races taking place across the country Tuesday night, and they delivered in a big way.

Democrats need more candidates like Randy Bryce-- everywherePeople forget the nature of a tsunami in politics. When the wave builds enough momentum, nothing can stand in its way. Candidates' money doesn't matter; quality of candidates won't matter. Just revulsion. And that's what 2018 is shaping up to be.

I recall a progressive political action committee withdrawing support-- loudly and publicly-- from a candidate they had endorsed over some kind of bullshit and inconsequential disagreement and thinking how I'd probably never trust that PAC again. But that isn't what happened when Blue America withdrew our support-- in 2006-- from our favorite Senate candidate. Then-Congressman Sherrod Brown was running for the U.S.

Trump's approval ratings might get better-- but that's unlikely. They just keep sinking... and they are, as Jonathan Bernstein explained for Bloomberg readers, really, really bad already. Señor Trumpanzee is, in short, being judged to be the worst president in modern history.

Mark Warner, not really homelessThe two richest Members of Congress are both House Republicans, career criminal Darrell Isis (net worth: $357 million) and Texas wing nut Michael McCaul, who got rich by marrying th