VIRGINIA’S GUBERNATORIAL primaries have attracted national attention as one of just two such statewide contests this year (the other being New Jersey’s). Both are competent, accomplished and astute; Mr. Northam would make the better governor. If any Democratic governor can nudge GOP majorities in his direction, it’s Mr. Northam. Mr. Wagner is in some ways a GOP version of Mr. Northam — down-to-earth, substantive, principled and well-versed in policy and the ways of Richmond. By contrast, the putative front-runner, Ed Gillespie, a former Republican national chair and George W. Bush White House veteran who has dodged debates, is more opportunistic, proposing a pie-in-the-sky tax cut that disintegrates upon contact with reality.

Source: Washington Post June 06, 2017 23:42 UTC