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GOP takes baby steps to run away from Donald Trump
Don is not going to like this
The second I realized Republican Glenn Youngkin had won the Virginia governor’s race, two things crossed my mind. My first thought was, there goes the schools.
The second one — OOPS TRUMP.
I don’t remember who it was, but someone in the national media wrote Trump had hedged his bets by staying away from Virginia. I think it was the exact opposite.
Trump made a massive mistake by staying away from Virginia. The fact that Glenn Youngkin won a blue state by maintaining a safe distance from Trump has energized the establishment.
The safe distance from Donald Trump strategy worked wonderfully well for Glenn Youngkin.
It helped Youngkin appeal to independent and moderate voters, while Fox News took care of the job to stoke the MAGA base into action. The Republican party, for the first time in five years, realized it could win without Trump on the stump.
And that too in battleground states. So now the GOP establishment wants to keep inching away from Trump.
Rick Scott, the National Republican Senatorial Committee head, took the lead on the new distancing formula. Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” he said:
“I think you’d be…
