IN VIRGINIA, the only state in the Old Confederacy carried by Hillary Clinton last year, the front-runner for the Republican nomination for governor is trying not to talk about the president. Ed Gillespie, an establishment Republican who worked for George W. Bush and was chairman of the Republican National Committee, is one of three candidates vying for the Republican nomination in the primary on June 13th. But he seems to have little to say about the controversies dogging Donald Trump's new administration.
They include the Republican replacement for Obamacare that could choke off health funds to the Virginia countryside, a Republican Party bulwark; Mr Trump’s firing of James Comey, who made his name as a federal prosecutor in Richmond; and a proposed federal budget that would mean fewer Navy shipbuilding contracts for a Virginia yard and less cash for a cleanup of the Chesapeake Bay, gateway for the first English settlers in the early 1600s.
That is not surprising. A recent poll by the Washington...Continue reading
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