Northam vs Gillespie

Gillespie is running as Trump.

Northam is a standard Democrat who beat the darling of the Sandersite Democracy for America group in a primary, running scared in the general.

Northam has a slight but shrinking lead in the polls, within the margin of error.

Democrat’s campaign called ‘racist,’ ‘morally debased’ by progressive group ahead of Virginia election

O campaigned for him and he is certainly better than a Trumpist would be, but the Bernie style purist idiots just don't get it.

Northam has been leading Republican rival Ed Gillespie in the polls, with indications that he had been energizing key groups of voters opposed to President Donald Trump. 

However, he also has been facing backlash from the left after stating on Wednesday that he would sign a bill to ban sanctuary cities in the state.

Virginia currently has no sanctuary cities, but Gillespie made the issue a central part of a race that, as the first competitive statewide contest since the 2016 election, is seen as an early referendum on Trump’s presidency.

In particular, Gillespie highlighted a tie-breaking vote Northam cast in February that defeated a bill that banned sanctuary cities in Virginia. 

Throughout the campaign, Gillespie has repeatedly attacked Northam for the vote, notably in a wave of ads claiming that Northam was putting Virginians in danger by allowing the largely Latino MS-13 gang to “kill, rape, control.”

Those ads led to fierce criticism of Gillespie, but Northam’s comments Wednesday that he would ban sanctuary cities have turned the spotlight on the Democrat. 

Democracy for America announced Thursday that the comments were the final straw, and it could no longer support a candidate who had beaten out a more progressive challenger in his party’s primary.

“Ralph Northam's gutless, politically senseless and morally debased decision yesterday to openly backtrack on his commitment to standing up for immigrant families is a picture-perfect example of why Democracy for America never endorsed him in the primary and focused the entirety of our efforts in Virginia on down-ticket races, like Justin Fairfax's campaign for Lieutenant Governor,” DRA Executive Director Charles Chamberlain said in a statement. 

“It's also why, today, we're announcing that we will no longer do any work to directly aid Northam's gubernatorial efforts.”

Fairfax is black.