Virginia’s election result is a loss for Donald Trump

Honestly, it didn’t really matter how the legislative races in Virginia turned out. They were not going help former President Donald Trump’s case for re-election. But as they did turn out, it was a clear loss for Trump.

To be fair, Trump was probably in a no-win situation from the jump. The major issue on which Democrats ran while Republicans kept him at arm’s length. With that as the set-up, Trump was going to lose no matter the outcome.

I live in Maryland, near the D.C. and Virginia border. So even though there were no elections for me to vote in, my television was inundated with political campaign ads — only this time for people I had never heard of and couldn’t vote for or against.

The Republican ads were about issues — from schools and the “woke” agenda related to “trans” students and parental rights to “defund the police” and rising crime. They weren’t particularly informative — no campaign commercials ever are — but they did contain promises for action on actual issues people care about, while advocating for the specific candidates who ran them.

In contrast, the Democratic Party candidates’ ads were not about what those candidates would do, with the exception of a blanket promise to expand “abortion rights.” They weren’t even about any candidate’s particular opponent, although they each mentioned who they were running against more frequently than they mentioned themselves.