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November 06, 2019Trion of the Democrats in Virginia at the Election Day 2019. For the first time in a quarter of a century, the Donkey party in Virginia controls both Houses of Parliament, torn from the Republicans, and the state government with the dem Ralph Northam at the helm since January 2018. In Kentucky, Grand Old Party (GOP) candidate Matt Bevin, backed by Donald Trump, loses the governor race while Republican Tate Reeves wins with Mississippi to congratulate the president .

The result of the Election Day 2019 is considered a first test for Trump, following the start of the impeachment procedure, in view of the 2020 presidential elections. The most serious defeat for the White House tenant is represented by Kentucky where he won with a 30-point gap over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. Dem instead was dem Andy Beshear over outgoing governor Bevin who refused to acknowledge defeat by reporting irregularities. During a rally on Monday in Kentucky, the tycoon urged that Bevin be re-elected. Otherwise "I will be accused of having cashed the worst defeat in the history of the world", Trump had anticipated. The lack of popularity of the 52-year-old Bevin, who has engaged in a tough struggle against unions and teachers, weighs on the outcome of the vote. Trump's presidential campaign manager, Brad Parscale, was keen to point out how the president managed to "drag" Bevin to the finish line, contributing to the triumph of other Gop candidates in the state. The victory of Bashear (current Attorney General of the State and son of Steve Beshear, 61st governor of Kentucky, from 2007 to 2015, or Bevin's predecessor) feeds instead the faint hopes of the dem to undermine next year the majority leader in the Senate , Republican Mitch McConnel running for re-election. Among the elected in Virginia also the woman who became famous for showing the middle finger to Trump's car procession in 2017 while riding a bike. That gesture cost her her job but now Juli Briskman has been elected supervisor of Loudoun County having the upper hand over her Republican rival Suzanne M. Volpe.