Ed Gillespie has been a Bush/Romney style Country Club Republican his entire political career. A former lobbyist for the GOP establishment, Gillespie either had no real idea of how to reach the needed GOP turnout of Trump voters(Gillespie was not authentic enough and refused Trump/Bannon's help) or he was just doing political theater to make the GOP establishment more relevant and less hated. Gillespie possibly feared the GOP establishment would be massively hated should he lose by double digits. Gillespie did lose to Northam by 8.7-9 points.
Gillespie over two months ago was behind Ralph Northam by double digits but then in the last one and half months of the campaign managed to make this a close race. Gillespie talked mildly about MS-13, immigration, and historical monuments. However, Gillespie failed to try hard enough as Trump did last year to motivate the Trump/Bannonite GOP voters to vote for Republicans.
The end results in vote estimates include 1.4 million for Northam and just 1.17 million for Gillespie. However, Northam was not well liked by the Bernie/Progressive base of Democrats and even worried that turnout might have favored the GOP. However, the Democrats won Virginia's statewide elections in 2017 due primarily to lack of GOP turnout. The Democrats also cut the GOP majority in Virginia's House of Delegates from almost 66% down to being razor thin close to losing their majority.
Donald Trump on the other hand exceeded 1.76 million votes in Virginia in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election but fell 5 points short behind Hillary Clinton. This means Northam came more than 300,000 votes short of exceeding Trump's 2016 vote count, indicating turnout was the supreme deciding factor in this Governor's race.
Plus, the changing demographics as well as swamp bureaucrats in Northern Virginia have massively affected Virginia's politics. Third-World immigration plagues the DC Metro area, and this includes Northern Virginia. Virginia was once one of the conservative strongholds until the end of George W. Bush's failed presidency.
The Democrats and RINOs will at first underestimate and ignore the threat anti-establishment hawk Corey Stewart poses to incumbent U.S. Senator from Virginia Tim Kaine but Corey Stewart has what Ed Gillespie never had: Authenticity. Stewart has proven himself in the race to win it, very much how Trump was in the Presidential race to win the Presidency.
Also, demographics and non-white immigration have been said to play a role in centre-left Democrat politics rising in Virginia. The only way to make Virignia a Right-Wing state again is for one restrict 3rd world non-white immigration and encourage higher white immigration and higher white birthrates.
As cuck GOP establishment calls out the Alt-Right for being "racist", Meso-American tribalists have openly declared it's their destiny to demographically replace White Americans. Though Trump has been strong on illegal immigration, GOP candidates MUST directly appeal to disaffected Whites eligible to vote who have not voted due to them losing hope in the political process.
What does this all mean? Democrats were given such sweeping victories in Virginia due to Ed Gillespie. Virginia's 2017 election was a repudiation not of President Trump but of the GOP establishment, signalling that typical White and GOP voters will not just vote for any Republican hack but an authentic MAGA Republican who fully embraces Trump's MAGA agenda. This is what separates the Corey Stewarts from the Ed Gillespies and why the former will have a much better chance at defeating Senator Tim Kaine in 2018.
It's been said that if the GOP majority Congress fails to pass tax reform that Democrats will be closer to retaking the U.S. House and even Senate. However, this depends on what candidates are running. If you have GOP establishment Bush types like Ed Gillespie, this will make the Democrats chances of victory even greater. However, if a MAGA Trump/Bannonite candidate like Corey Stewart were to run in the general election, then chances for GOP victory against the Democrats will be greater.
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