Analysis: Democratic surge in suburbs forecasts a potentially rough 2018 for GOP
WASHINGTON - Republicans awoke Wednesday facing a tortuous road ahead for their candidates in the 2018 elections, particularly in suburban areas where animosity toward President Donald Trump overwhelmed his party in Tuesday's elections.
In the northern Virginia suburbs near Washington, D.C., Democrat Ralph Northam captured 69 percent of the vote in winning Tuesday's race for governor, five points better than Hillary Clinton did against Trump in the same area last November. In Hampton Roads, the southern end of an urban crescent that has helped reshape Virginia into a reliably Democratic state in presidential elections, Northam finished seven points stronger than Clinton.
The view from the suburbs
