Don’t expect national Democrats to throw good money after bad. After all, why should they?
Gillespie sets the pace and the tone of the gubernatorial race while Northam preps his team to lean on third-party outside expenditures.
Is there anything left for Northam to sell?
Two albatrosses continue to hang around Northam’s neck at the moment: Antifa and the pipeline. Gillespie’s law and order emphasis produces results.
Northam panics and stitches together a quick-cut ad while Gillespie sets the tone and pace of the Virginia gubernatorial race with law & order at the top.
Gillespie doesn’t waste time caging the debate, with an immediate focus on crime, illegal immigration, and supporting Virginia’s law enforcement.
What happens when you roll out an education plan, and no one cares?
So it’s personal after all for Herring.
One thing is for sure. Papering over the canyon that separates progressives and liberals in Virginia doesn’t do the public discourse any good.
August has not been kind to Northam. Dark money from outside Virginia doesn’t bode well for Norhtam’s backbone in the weeks to come.