Democratic gains in presidential battleground states

Daniel Dale, a White House reporter for the Toronto Star, notes that “Democrats have won the Senate and governor races in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the states that narrowly put Trump over the top in 2016.

“Democrats also dominated two Senate races and the governor race in Minnesota, Great Lakes state where Trump almost pulled off an upset.”

But in Florida, dubbed ‘the swingiest of swing states’, the governorship has stayed in Republican hands.

There will be a lot of pundits reading into the swing state results especially and what it might mean for the 2020 Presidential election.

But it’s important to remember, beyond all the bloviating, Trump’s name was not on any ballot. Yes, it’s being seen as a referendum on his presidency so far but the results are far from a definitive striking down of Trump or Trumpsim.

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