Blue wave defeated! Trump just scored major wins

Blue wave defeated! Trump just scored major wins

August 8, 2018

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High-stakes elections on Tuesday that included Donald Trump-backed candidates resulted in a pair of big wins for the president — and experts see it as proof that the so-called 2018 “blue wave” was going to fizzle.
In deep-red Kansas’ Republican gubernatorial primary, the candidate Trump backed on the eve of the election, Secretary of State Kris Kobach, barely edged out current Republican Gov. Jeff Colyer by 200 votes.
In Ohio, the script for the special election was somewhat familiar: An experienced Trump loyalist, Balderson, was fighting a fresh-faced Democrat, Danny O’Connor, in a congressional district held by the Republican Party for more than three decades. O’Connor lost.
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In Kansas, Republicans were fighting among themselves in a battle for governor in which the president sided with the incumbent’s challenger. Baring a recount, Kobach’s win is a signal that Trump remains the leader of the Republican party heading into 2018.

He made a surprise endorsement on the eve of the election —


In Ohio, as voters were going to the polls, Trump also expressed that Balderson would make a “great congressman.”
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Balderson will take the seat previously held by Pat Tiberi, a nine-term incumbent who resigned to take a job with an Ohio business group.
Balderson and O’Connor will reprise their race in the general election in just three months. There are at least 3,367 provisional ballots left to be reviewed; while a sudden Democratic upset is possible, it remains unlikely.
Trump won Ohio’s 12th Congressional District by more than 11 points in 2016; on Tuesday night, Balderson and O’Connor were separated by less than 1 point.
But a win is a win.
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“Over the next three months, I’m going to do everything I can to keep America great again, so that when we come back here in November — get ready, we gotta come back here in November — I have earned your vote for a second time,” Balderson told supporters.
Democrats continue to suggest that there will be a ‘blue wave’ hitting America in November, but voting results don’t lie — and it looks like liberals are in for a surprise when a ‘red wave’ smacks them in the face this fall.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.