Doesn't move the needle much.
10 years ago maybe a little bit but the mainstream media's ability to spin and influence has decreased so dramatically.
In 2018, these events are now dissected online via forums, social media or alternative media commentators on Twitter or YouTube.
The general consensus I've gathered is that this was likely some person connected or supportive of the Left so it really is a moot point in regards to hurting Republican candidates.
Besides, I think people have pretty well made up their minds at this point and the Democrats just are not getting their people out in early voting like they should. Look at that post Yamcha put up a few days ago. Out of 8 battleground Senate races, 7 of them were favoring Republicans and Democrats SHOULD be well ahead in early voting. It's just not happening. They are not mobilizing their potential constituents to the ballot boxes.
Even after 2 years of non stop assault towards Trump, they do not even have a prayer of retaking Congress. Total disaster for their party.
they've got one last ace up their sleeve: celebrity support
when kim k, katey perry, eminem, justin bieber, and the entire cast list of any movie in Hollywood are call behind an idea, it mobilizes hundreds of thousands if not millions to march, to believe in anything (see: their bandwagoning on the Kavanaugh thing to support the criminal liar Ford) on the basis of emotion, and even to vote for the WRONG people, like they did with Hillary. EXIT POLLING on all the networks showed people admitting they often voted for her as a nominee and in the general because she was one of them and told them she was for all women, etc. the usual bullshit. These shitbags have like 50,000,000 followers, mostly white young people and women mostly but still, those assholes vote because Drake or Jay Z tells them to. Republicans will never have that star power and it's the secret to why they can't lock up the country under Republican dominion the way the Japanese Liberal Democrats did to their opponents or the Christian Democrats in Germany, or even Putin's party. In the case of Japan and Russia, there's only one leader, one political party that dominates, and one national idea. Whiners, moaners, negatives, antisocials, bums, scroungers, and haters of all things majority race or male are NOT welcome and face IMMEDIATE removal from society via deportation and/or imprisonment and a fucking steep fine + a lifetime ban. That's how you do it.
