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    Virginia tests a likely 2018 election strategy: Racially fraught appeals

    by Cathleen Decker, Los Angeles Times Nov 01, 2017 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - Virginia has been swamped by fearful images as Tuesday's state election nears: heavily tattooed and handcuffed Latinos staring balefully at the television camera, a mug shot of a convicted pedophile set loose on the state.

    Versions of those ads may be headed to other states in the 2018 elections as Republicans seek to maximize the turnout of the burgeoning Trump wing of the party with themes known to appeal to them.

    The strategy in Virginia by GOP gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie has played heavily on themes of race and crime - itself an issue that has historically conjured racial stereotypes - in the style President Donald Trump employed last year.

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