Reportedly a key witness in the ongoing inquiry changed his stand and told Congressional investigators that he had asked Ukrainian officials that they had to give President trump what he wanted, a public announcement of investigation of corruption, to unblock almost $400 million in military aid it was supposed to get, but first, the elections. Matt Bevin, the Republican governor of Kentucky, lost to Democrat Andy Beshear in an upset defeat largely due to his own unpopularity.
Meanwhile President trump, who had put his full weight behind Bevin and held an election rally for him on monday, will end up shouldering some of the blame, especially from critics. Democrats are now in charge of all the major statewide offices in Virginia, a state that was once considered Republican but has turned into a swing state with a sharp rise in Democratic voters and hence these reverses for the Republican party came a year after it lost control of the US house of Representatives to Democrats in the 2018 mid-term elections.
Moreover his 2020 campaign claimed credit for the other victories in Kentucky and said the “President just about dragged governor Matt Bevin across the finish line, helping him run stronger than expected in what turned into a very close race at the end”. Further trump loyalist handed the president a fresh set of troubles. US ambassador to EU Gordon Sondland told impeachment investigators that he had indeed conveyed to a Ukrainian official that there were conditions that had to be met to get the security aid, laying out, in effect, a quid pro quo that the president and his allies have denied.
