https://newrepublic.com/post/202712/democrats-flip-red-districts-election-warning-trump
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sheetsadam1 — 4 months ago(November 05, 2025 06:19 PM)
https://newrepublic.com/post/202712/democrats-flip-red-districts-election-warning-trump
The 2025 special elections went exceptionally well for Democrats, with local and state candidates flipping red areas across the country.
While most of the national attention has been on Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in New York, and to a lesser extent Democratic gubernatorial wins in New Jersey and Virginia, victories in even more local districts reveal a lot about where the parties stand in the lead-up to the midterms.
Erie County, Pennsylvania, which narrowly supported Donald Trump in the 2024 election, voted overwhelmingly for Democrat Christina Vogel in its county executive race by 24 percentage points. In Virginia’s 66th state House district, Nicole Cole defeated 36-year Republican incumbent Bobby Orrock, who usually coasted to victory in every state election and was the longest-serving Republican delegate in Virginia’s legislature.
Democrats in Georgia managed to win two statewide races for public service commissioner, their first nonfederal statewide wins since 2006. Alicia Johnson defeated incumbent Tim Echols, by a 58 to 41 percent margin, while Peter Hubbard ousted Fitz Johnson 61 percent to 39 percent. The positions deal with utilities, and have “exclusive power to decide what are fair and reasonable rates for services under its jurisdiction.”
Even in the deep Southern state of Mississippi, Democrats were able to break the supermajority in the state Senate by flipping three seats after 13 years, taking away Republicans’ ability to override the governor’s veto and easily propose constitutional amendments. These victories, coupled with Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral race and the Democratic wins in Virginia and New Jersey, have predictably caused President Trump to melt down.
“‘TRUMP WASN’T ON THE BALLOT, AND SHUTDOWN, WERE THE TWO REASONS THAT REPUBLICANS LOST ELECTIONS TONIGHT,’ according to Pollsters,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Tuesday night. But whatever Trump and Republicans around the country are saying to themselves on Wednesday, the fact is that the GOP was soundly rejected on Tuesday. Now the task falls on Democrats to make their case for better results in 2026 and 2028.
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Yermom_Is_God — 4 months ago(November 05, 2025 07:55 PM)
At least that inbred Somali retard lost. Granted it was to another Democrat retard, but still…
"I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit." -A fucking idiot -
Yermom_Is_God — 4 months ago(November 05, 2025 11:19 PM)
It would definitely appear so. A lot of these places are historically blue so we could assume Democrats were going to win, but the fact that these races weren't even close is cause for concern. The bad news is Democrats are now going to open the government up. They were obviously keeping it closed for political posturing before the elections.
"I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit." -A fucking idiot -
/.ㅤ — 4 months ago(November 05, 2025 08:13 PM)
“‘TRUMP WASN’T ON THE BALLOT, AND SHUTDOWN, WERE THE TWO REASONS THAT REPUBLICANS LOST ELECTIONS TONIGHT,’ according to Pollsters,”
mofo cut everybody's welfare checks and food stamps ahead of an election
the level of delusion with the MAGAs is amazing
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bitchsurn — 4 months ago(November 06, 2025 01:21 AM)
We had the county tax collector and some judges, but the "big one" was to retain or not to retain the state supreme court justices.
As I previously typed, if Donnie The Diddler didn't do anything else, now I show up for all of the elections.