OPINION: Ed Gillespie transformed for the worse in Virginia race

Tuesday, Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of Democratic Virginia Lt. Governor, Ralph Northam, and in doing so underperformed President Trump who lost the state to Hillary Clinton by 5 percentage points in 2016. Given Gillespie’s fearmongering, imitation-Trump campaign, this was a good outcome for Virginia, the nation, and, in the long-run, the GOP.