Democrats scored a stunning upset on Saturday in a special election runoff for Texas Senate, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ, giving the party a major boost ahead of the November midterms.
The district favored President Trump — who endorsed Wambsganss earlier on Saturday — by 17 points in 2024. The race went to a runoff after none of the candidates were able to clinch a majority in the November election.
So, the Republicans felt comfortable enough in this district to intentionally trigger this election. They could have appointed someone from another district or someone who wasn’t holding a seat at all, but they thought they were safe. I think that shows just how badly they are underestimating the level of outrage right now.
Gerrymandering backfires when taken too far.
This is also basically why the dems lost in 2016 and 2024. Complacency and bystander effect. Nobody could be dumb enough to vote trump and certainly not twice. Only they did.
Dems lost in 2016 because they chose to run Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders.
Dems lost in 2024 because they chose to run a black female over someone who actually cared about the working class.
The democrat constituency isn’t as stupid as the democrat party would like to believe. We recognize how the people in power think we’ll vote for someone just because their a minority, regardless of what their economic policy actually is.
Democrats would run the country if there wasn’t a sizeable amount of voters only prioritizing candidates that won’t raise their taxes or the taxes of people richer than them.
You’re circling the point without really identifying it. Dems lost in '16 and '24 because they did not hold primaries and just hoped that there were enough people opposed to Trump that they’d vote for whoever they chose.
On the other hand, in what might be the only credit you can give him, Trump faced three primaries in the Republican party and won them not by the party leaders pre-selecting him, but by actually being more popular with voters than the other guys.
2020, yes, but 2016 wasn’t about Trump. The Dem establishment had already decided “it’s her turn” well before Trump even won being taken seriously, and before his first primary win in NH. The Democratic Party eliminated the democratic process from its primaries and is baffled why people are mad at that.
With current ICE invasions they may even flip florida blue again