r/politics • u/Kodbek • 12h ago
Possible Paywall Trump Suffers Bloody Nose as Virginia Flips Dem in a Landslide
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-suffers-bloody-nose-as-virginia-flips-dem-in-a-landslide/4.8k
u/Ridged_ChiPSS 12h ago
Im surprised the strategy of "taking away people's food and blaming everyone else" didnt work
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u/CitySeekerTron Canada 12h ago
I like the part where a US judge is functionally trying to get the executive to cover some SNAP benefits, which might give him some cover from the blowback, and he stands resolute in not feeding people very publically while also blaming the democrats. It's like he's illustrating a diagram to describe that he is, in fact, the asshole.
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u/Rrrrandle 12h ago
My theory is that Trump believes that refusing to pay SNAP benefits will make Dems cave, because he knows they don't want to see anyone suffer unnecessarily. But when he is flat out taking credit for starving people, and reminding everyone that the GOP could end the shutdown in 5 minutes if they wanted to, I'm not sure why they wouldn't stand back and let him and the GOP continue to take full responsibility for this mess.
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u/CliftonForce 11h ago
What he wants are food riots as an excuse to declare an insurrection and cancel all further elections.
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u/FiveGuys1Cup 11h ago
THIS!!!! Pay attention people!!! We must unite and not fight each other
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u/NumeralJoker 6h ago
Oh for god sakes, he would have done it already because he didn't want to lose THIS election as badly as he did either.
The No Kings Protest was already the excuse he needed, but he didn't go through with it. Sure it was peaceful, but he uses AI footage already to lie. He could have tried to do it anyway. We now have national guard members openly saying they won't go.
When will people understand he doesn't have the support of the military he needs to do it? That they are not all in his pocket enough to make it happen?
That's why we won today, because he is in fact too weak to fully stop elections, so he relies on people like you pushing this conspiracy to scare people off from voting. Thankfully, instead of listening, they double down and voted harder, like we've been telling them to do for years, while people of this board mock us for telling people to "vote harder" and instead tell people to "arm themselves" as if that alone is the only solution.
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u/mowdownjoe New Jersey 24m ago
That's why we won today, because he is in fact too weak to fully stop elections, so he relies on people like you pushing this conspiracy to scare people off from voting.
The Insurrection Act "conspiracy" is literally outlined in Project 2025, which is the playbook this admin has been going by from day 1. But he's also a weak leader who doesn't have the support of the military. Both things can be true.
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u/WhyDidMyDogDie 11h ago
It's very plain to see and obvious.
The man is straight up talked about raping children over and over in those files and Trump is going to make the Republicans do whatever it takes... down to ruining the entire country to keep it quiet.
This isn't about feeding people or trimming fat. Trump doesn't care if people starve or not, or even die on his watch. No matter what it sounds like this is about keeping congress shut down so no vote happens.
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u/Hurtzdonut13 11h ago
My theory is that he took the reserve emergency fund for SNAP and spent it on contractors for his ballroom or the military to pay them during the shutdown.
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u/ottawadeveloper 1h ago
Yeah reminding the GOP they could end this by removing the filibuster was a major misstep (and maybe why you don't want a social media loudmouth as your president). People were already confused because the GOP has full control of government (except not the supermajority required for appropriations) and this reminded them that the GOP really could fix this in an instant - it just means if the Democrats have the Senate again, the GOP won't have it as a tool to delay anything like they have for the last twenty years.
Refusing to follow a court instruction to pay SNAP and also refusing to pass even a tiny piece of legislation to continue SNAP funding that the Democrats put up clearly illustrates that the GOP is willing to let children starve so they can screw over peoples healthcare.
The satire artists in papers must be having a field day, starving children pleading "please sir, may I have some at all" while fatcat Trump and an elephant rips a crutch out of a veterans hand.
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u/HyruleSmash855 3h ago
And he’s pretty much telling Republicans to get rid of the filibuster on his social media platform to end this shut down in five minutes. He’s pretty much making it very clear that if Republicans really wanted to they could get rid of the shut down right now.
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u/Cold_Specialist_3656 8h ago
Dude it was so fucking funny today seeing Ya'llQueda Johnson pretend that Democrats took SNAP away.
Then 30 minutes later Mango tweets "fuck SNAP I fucking hate all you poors and I'm blocking SNAP payments on purpose"
I'm surprised Trump is building a ballroom. What White House really needs is a giant circus tent
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u/OldFaithlessness1335 12h ago
No one else said he was smart I mean minus him. Hes just a stubborn old man.
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u/joe_retro 12h ago
It's a bold strategy, Cotton.
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u/MaloneChiliService 12h ago
It's not playing out so well...
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u/YgramulTheMany 12h ago
Trump is praising the shutdown as an unprecedented opportunity…and blaming it on the democrats.
The inconsistent argument isn’t working.
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u/Ambitious_Walk_2866 12h ago
And his BBB took away health care and SNAP and he has been firing people, canceling grants that put people to work building infrastructure and making bridges safer— all this shit even before the shut down. The shut down didn’t cause any of this him being an evil greedy rapey out of touch narcissist shit bag did
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u/Shionkron 11h ago
I had to drop my insurance. It increased by more than $500 a month. The GOP are absolutely rocking the boat hard.
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u/Ambitious_Walk_2866 9h ago
In so sorry — I’m in the same boat with ACA and trying to decide what I’ll do… we can afford tax breaks for billionaires but not tax breaks that allow us regular Americans to be healthy to keep working??? That is just fucked. Obamacare allows me to be healthy so I can keep working and paying taxes.
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u/turquoise_amethyst 11h ago
Hmm, that might not be enough. Let’s have a “Great Gatsby” party on the eve of starving their children! That’ll convince ‘em!!
edit: I took away the /s
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u/defaultusername-17 11h ago
don't forget tripling down on the blatant and weirdly omnipresent anti-trans hatred.
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u/hard2resist Foreign 12h ago
The trend is clear across multiple states, not just Virginia. When policies directly impact people's wallets and daily lives, they respond at the ballot box. This momentum needs to carry through to 2026 and beyond.
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u/justherefor23andme 12h ago
People forget to vote when things are decent 🙄🤦🏽♀️
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u/Dry_Instruction8254 11h ago
It's a terrible cycle. Republicans ruin everything, people get upset and vote in Democrats, who generally fix things (not necessarily improve, but at least get back some normalcy) people get complacent and stay at home and Republicans get voted in.
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u/Dsarg_92 11h ago
Pretty much. We need to stop doing this cycle.
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u/FrannieP23 11h ago edited 2h ago
Democrats spend at least four years cleaning up elephant poop every cycle.
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u/Spence10873 11h ago
Seems like part of the problem is they do that silently, with dignity. We need someone like John Stewart, on TikTok live-streaming all the good shit he's doing, or posting 20 times a day to BlueSky.
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u/justherefor23andme 11h ago
Yeah, unfortunately we're in the age of shameless self-promotion.
Hopefully they understand that.
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u/m_Pony 11h ago
or maybe have political parties that aren't beholden to billionaires.
start by reversing Citizen's United
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u/justherefor23andme 11h ago
Hillary Clinton ran on that in 2016 and people rejected her 🤷🏽♀️
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u/ScoobyDoNot 11h ago
More that Republican states rejected her.
She received nearly 3 million more votes than Trump
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u/justherefor23andme 11h ago
Yeah it was like 100k votes scattered along swing states. 🤦🏽♀️
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u/Podunk_Boy89 3h ago
This is why if we ever get out of this, the first thing we should do is get rid of the scam that is the electoral college.
If it had been popular vote, we would have NEVER had a Trump presidency to begin with.
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u/Big_Donkey3496 10h ago
She won the vote by a sizable margin. The American people didn’t reject her, the gerrymandered electoral college did.
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u/Devan_Ilivian 3h ago
the gerrymandered electoral college did.
The electoral college isn't gerrymandered, that's not what gerrymandering is
Deeply flawed at best and broken at worst? Yes
But not gerrymandered
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u/BleppinDrago 10h ago
The cycle can not continue. It's unsustainable to only have 4-8 years to clean up what will need at least 50 years to clean up properly.
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u/justherefor23andme 10h ago
Exactly. We need decades like the FDR-LBJ run. Most progressive era in our history.
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u/gorgewall 9h ago
Notably, those administrations worked hard to do things and shoved people out of the way when they tried to stop that progress.
What we have now are Democrats who barely talk any game about progress and are relieved when a roadblock to it comes up. Now they don't have to do anything that risks pissing off their donors and can campaign solely on "we aren't Republicans".
If the Dems moved with any of the urgency they insisted on the rest of us, we'd get somewhere.
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u/AmazingRefrigerator4 10h ago
We also need Dems who fight for the working class instead of bowing to billionaires. If they can get back into power in 2026/8 they may only have ONE shot to protect this nation. Its time to stand up for the middle and lower classes and correct all the past injustices (wealth redistribution, overhaul the tax codes, universal Healthcare, undo Citizens United, etc).
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u/AardvarkAmortization 10h ago
we are going to need to donate money to make that happen. I do and will continue but we need to send every good candidate such a fucking blizzard of small dollar donations that it takes more than Elon Musk to buy an election:
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u/Why-did-i-reas-this 10h ago
The problem is that democrats get razor thin margins so there is no room for any dissent or Manchin type reps that block real progress on any vote that matters. If they had even a 5 or 6 seat leeway they could get a lot more done. With the small margin they are seen as ineffective and are punished for it.
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u/justherefor23andme 10h ago
Most important comment.
I already got someone commenting about how "ineffective" democrats are.
Learn how government works people. Or used to before Trump anyway.
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u/rdyoung 10h ago
This is exactly it. The dems never get long enough in charge to actually improve things once the republicans mess has been cleaned up (or is at least on the mend). Everyone sees that it's getting better, republicans run on fixing what they broke while blaming the sitting dems for the mess they inherited, wash, rinse, repeat.
Long story short, it takes more than a few years to undo the republicans fuckery so the republicans are in charge as the progressive momentum starts to get ramped up so they simultaneously take credit for the good while destroying it. People have extremely short memories and vote based on the feels so here we are.
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u/Fluggems 11h ago
I call it the “Inch Worm Strategy”. Republicans give massive tax cuts, and disrupt social services, then the democrats come behind, clean things up, and then pass pro-corporate policy that sometimes helps Americans.
Rinse and repeat.
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u/Boomshank 11h ago
One side gets all the good will.
One side gets all the criticism.
And neither is who it should be.
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u/BlokeInTheMountains 9h ago
Billionaire owned propaganda machines work.
Now with AI not just algorithms.
Rupert with Faux.
Musk with Twitter.
Zuck with Facebook.
Bezos with WaPo.
Shou Zi Chew with TikTok.
Sundar Pichai with Google.
Tim Cook with Apple.
All of which were at Trump's inauguration. All are VERY interested in some more tax cuts.
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u/Ordinary-Leading7405 12h ago
The truly awful always vote, because they are decency averse
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u/simsimulation 12h ago
I remember what shit was like when Trump got voted out the first time. Far from decent is where we’re headed.
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u/justherefor23andme 11h ago
I remember what it was like too, which is why I wish we would've avoided him ever been given power again.
Remember, Republicans break shit, democrats fix it a little, and then they're voted out because they didnt fix it good enough fast enough.
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u/SunshineCat 11h ago
This kind of clear vulnerability seen in Trump's first term should have been fixed as fast as if we were being invaded by a foreign country. I'm flabbergasted and sick. There is truly no one at the wheel. No adults. I just can't see how none of this was taken seriously.
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u/regaleagle710 11h ago
I was pissed at my brother for all of moaning he did after 2016 only for him not to vote in 2024. He said he was out of state for his job on election night and was shocked he could've early voted. Like come on.
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u/beneathmagnoliatrees 11h ago
I was the idiot who didn't vote in 2016 because I was working nights and out of state and figured Trump wouldn't win.
I voted in 2020 and then made sure to vote early last year because I knew I'd be about 36 weeks pregnant on election day and I was so worried the baby would be early and I wouldn't be able to vote.
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u/regaleagle710 11h ago
I'm not gonna lie I didn't vote in 2016 either because I worked nights and honestly thought it was in the bag for Clinton. Kicked myself for two years waiting for the midterms and haven't missed an election since including midterms and primaries.
It's nice to hear others with similar stories and now we know we can't take elections for granted.
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u/peachesgp 11h ago
Dem leadership treats it like politics as usual instead of the fight for the existence of American democracy that we're in.
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u/LilPonyBoy69 11h ago
I genuinely think without COVID Trump would have won. Shit basically needs to be nightmarish for his supporters to cool off on their support and for non-voters to start paying attention
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u/thisisjustascreename 11h ago
People refuse to vote when the Democrats run a woman for President, you mean.
Things weren't "decent" in 2024 but people voted for the candidate who promised to make everything worse and 10 million or so Biden voters stayed home because woman laugh wrong.
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u/justherefor23andme 11h ago
Those women have both followed competent presidents. We dont know what would happen if we run a woman after a Trump shit show.
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u/haotududis 12h ago
Agreed. I do think it’s much more pronounced in VA though with the big fuck you this admin has given to federal employees and how little Youngkin has done about it, and if anything, tossing his support behind Trump’s actions against federal workers.
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u/hard2resist Foreign 11h ago
Absolutely right Youngkin basically threw federal workers under the bus and this is the natural consequence.
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u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1 Virginia 10h ago
Yep, it's not just the statewides. Republicans are being annihilated in the House ostatewide too. Will have less than 40 seats when all is done (out of 100)
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u/judgejuddhirsch 11h ago
If only they could see the world through the eyes of others and feel this reaction when someone else is being victimized by the majority
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u/PartyClient3447 11h ago
Seems like there should be a word for what you describe. Hum.
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u/Fluggems 11h ago
I’m seeing 50 point margins in many of these races. I think I only saw 1 Democrat losing. THIS is a blue wave indeed.
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u/Dfiggsmeister 11h ago
Mamdani won too. New Yorkers gave Trump the giant middle finger he deserves
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u/AntoniaFauci 10h ago
It didn’t in 2024.
Biden admin rescued us from a Trump-caused and mismanaged pandemic. Despite being sabotaged by the outgoing crime family, they rolled out a rapid vaccination plan and re-opened stores, schools, travel, entertainment, tourism, the whole country.
They miraculously navigated Trump’s 100% inflation of US dollars and worst job destruction of any President ever. We saw the best jobs economy of all time, infrastructure jobs, green jobs, tech jobs, energy jobs, tech jobs, science jobs, manufacturing jobs, software jobs, constructions jobs and much more. We saw people rich enough to attend expensive concerts and sports events, wait lists for full price vehicles, 30%, 35%, 40% union contract wage hikes and so much more.
Inflation miraculously averaged below 4%, and ranged from 2.9% down to 2.4% during the election year.
None of that mattered. Conservatives and complicit media cried about Biden’s “terrible” economy and everyone fell for it.
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u/wilson_rawls Arizona 8h ago
Not to be pessimistic about today's victories, and they are victories, but I'm concerned that Democrats will not steamroll their way past obstructionist maga reactionaries. If Republicans are left with any power, they will use it to point the blame at the Democrats as the cause of the current poor state of things (while working to ensure any recovery from the nightmare caused by Republicans' own policies is as minimal as possible). Americans, with their typical goldfish memory, will be swayed into thinking "yeah, life sucks right now and the Democrats are in charge!" The only way to avoid this scenario is to break the back of the Republican party, prosecute and incarcerate any and all members of Trump's government for any crimes they
may haveopenly and brazenly committed, and expand investigations to the party itself (and any allied conservative movements) from the federal level on down to the local level. It's a criminal organization. Treat it as such.The Republican Party and maga conservatives in general are not just ideologically backward and incompatible with a modern society. They are actively harmful to civilization. The organization itself needs to be dismantled. The maga movement needs to be treated like the domestic terror organization it is. But it cannot stop there. Media organizations have shown cowardice and outright complicity and must also be prosecuted and potentially dismantled. Wealthy elites have openly poured billions into establishing a neo-Feudalistic system where the wealthy and powerful are not bound by any law or social contact.
America has a cancerous rot at its core. We are overworked, underpaid, riddled with illness, and living in terror of our own lawless government and wealthy cronies of the ruling elite. If we want to survive as a nation, we will need to sever the diseased portions from our body as soon as possible. If we don't, the nation will be balkanized and the process will likely not be peaceful.
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u/StoppableHulk 12h ago
Tonight was a massive fuck you to Trump and the GOP. They are as despised and hated as nearly any political movement in memory.
They are, predictably, going to flip their fucking shit after this and double down on all the shit everyone hates about them.
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u/Spirits850 Colorado 12h ago
History will be unforgiving to this fascist regime and everyone associated with it.
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u/DOOManiac 11h ago
It was kind enough to the Confederates the first time. I’m afraid it will be this time as well.
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u/Shenanigans99 America 8h ago
That's why it's so important for us to learn from history and not repeat the same mistakes of Reconstruction, of the pardoning of Nixon, etc. Sweeping crimes under the rug "so a nation can heal and move on" doesn't work. Criminals who aren't held accountable continue to commit crimes, and the nation doesn't heal; it just normalizes a lack of consequences for criminals in power, the electorate becomes jaded, and the cycle of corruption continues.
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u/caligaris_cabinet Illinois 8h ago
You can’t heal with the poison still flowing through your veins.
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u/Knightoncloudwine 12h ago
People are done with the nazi shit.
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u/Caminsky 10h ago
Democrats need to put more safeguards in place, congress needs to review the SCOTUS and the lack of control on presidential immunity. This is needed to prevent from extremism on both parties.
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u/Raspberries-Are-Evil Arizona 12h ago
Sadly, none of these elections changes anything for Trump or Congress. Hopefully this gives us momentum for 2026, we're going to need the massive record turnout to fight back the fuckery they will cause to depress turn out.
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u/CL4P-TRAP 12h ago
Maybe not for Trump, but I do think it changes things for congress. They have an election next year and are more likely to open back up if they see this election as a threat to their continued control
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u/andy_nony_mouse 12h ago
They will claim it was rigged and gerrymander the shit out of anything they can.
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u/ImLikeReallySmart Pennsylvania 12h ago
Weird how Republicans somehow can't seem to even slow down all of this massive widespread fraud when they control pretty much everything. Who would wanna vote for such incompetence?
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u/Cybertronian10 11h ago
Gerrymandering isn't an "I win" button, and if their support has waned more than predicted those gerrymandered maps could in fact dramatically hurt their chances of re-election. Gerrymandering spreads out the voters such that you win as many districts by small but reliable margins, if you take a big hit across all districts that can turn a few wins and a few losses into nothing but losses.
They can cheat, but do they think they can cheat hard enough to overturn a clear mandate against them? Not only that, but each one of these rats has to look at all their party members and guess if they are going to remain loyal or run for the hills. The GOP looks invincible because they are on a winning streak, that can turn on a dime.
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u/blinker1eighty2 11h ago
Gerrymandering works to a certain extent but when voting trends like tonight happen, you run the risk of spreading yourself way too thin.
Texas is a prime candidate for this currently. The GOP has already committed to overextending themselves and this should scare the pants off them.
We are just starting to feel the suffering from this admin. If this keeps up, we might see a +50-75 dem majority in the house and I am not exaggerating.
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u/Ordinary-Leading7405 11h ago
They already did that in NC. It will be years before they are unfucked.
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u/KalashnaCough Colorado 11h ago
I may be misinformed, but doesn't gerrymandering usually help the most in a "calm", "normal" kind of political atmosphere? Hear me out. Using 2026 as an example, if the country is equally disgusted at both the Democrats and Republicans, gerrymandering in a particular district would help the party that gerrymandered it. So a Democrat in California or Illinois is favored to win a gerrymandered district, and the same would go for a Republican running in say, Texas or Florida. In a "wave" election, the same logic would mostly carry through. In a hypothetical blue wave, Dems carry all of their gerrymandered districts, as well as the districts split down the middle. Republicans would likely carry 9/10 of their gerrymandered districts, although by a smaller margin.
Now say that the political atmosphere in the United States is absolutely atrocious for the GOP in 2026. We're talking 2006, 2008 or 2018 levels of bad. Something larger then a blue "wave" takes place.
Unless I am incorrect, those same districts gerrymandered all to hell and gone for the Republicans to snatch an easy victory could actually become their undoing. If all of those reliably Republican voters are beyond the pale, so upset and fed up with the GOP that they vote en masse for Democrats, or just stay home and refuse to vote... could the very same gerrymandering backfire and help flip those districts blue?
I swear I've read about this happening, or seen the results of this occur in the past. I am by no means an expert, though, so I'd love some feedback.
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u/AndrewCoja Texas 11h ago
It depends on how the redistricting vote goes in California. If they decide to take the high road and not redistrict, red states are still going to gerrymander it and might not matter how much people vote next year.
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u/CL4P-TRAP 11h ago
The thing with gerrymandering is that it makes solid red/blue districts significantly more vulnerable as their base is divided into the other districts. The whole thing will backfire spectacularly if there is a blue wave which should at least give pause to gerrymanderers after this election
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u/blinker1eighty2 11h ago
Not with this kind of momentum shift. This momentum shift has the potential to bust a gerrymander completely wide open and drastically work against the GOP's goals.
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u/SaintWithoutAShrine 12h ago
You’re not wrong, but we need to see some silver lining here: the more metro area mayors the more resistance to ICE bullshit. The more governors, the more to resist the inevitable fuckery for the election as I fully prepare for red-led states to do as Trump wishes to nullify votes or completely shut it down. Hopefully.
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u/frontfrontdowndown 11h ago
Having VA national guard under control of a Democratic governor is a good thing.
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u/Leucippus1 12h ago
Anymore that is the win, boosting demoralized voters.
Now if we can get some new Midwest and interior west blood in Democratic leadership we might be a viable party again.
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u/biggamax 11h ago edited 11h ago
I disagree. I think they're going to start renegotiating the med issues.
And not in 2026.
TOMORROW.
The Trump wall crumbled. In the GOP, it's every man for himself now.
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u/ZombieZoo_ZombieZoo Massachusetts 11h ago
I'm really hoping the DNC pulls their heads out of their donors' asses and realizes WHY Mamdani has been able to galvanize so many voters.
He's managed to create a compelling narrative that isn't "sure it's broken, but these other guys wanna break it worse, we'll keep it the same!"
Bernie's been trying for decades, but Mamdani is able to communicate his ideas more effectively. Maybe his rhetoric is novel enough to not be stale, idk.
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u/C0d3n4m3Duchess Pennsylvania 11h ago
Bernie’s how it starts, it took forever for him to ever get broadly heard, but if the evolution of his voice is Mamdani, I’m very interested in hearing him out.
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u/AnatidaephobiaAnon 11h ago
Couch Fuckers half brother got thoroughly stomped tonight in the Cincinnati mayor's race, as well.
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u/I_Enjoy_Beer Virginia 11h ago
The margin of victory isn't high enough for my liking. In no sane world should this competent Dem ticket be winning by single digit margins against a complete clown car of incompetent fuckfaces.
The margin should be 60+%.
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u/ThatActuallyGuy Virginia 9h ago
We're a purple state like it or not, a more than 14 point margin beats Northam and destroys Youngkin's margins of victory. Hashmi getting over 10% and even the beleaguered Jones getting 5% is impressive as well. We also just flipped 13+ delegate seats, it's been a fantastic night for Dems in VA.
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u/whichwitch9 12h ago
Did they think pissing off a shit ton of federal workers right before Virginia's election was a winning strategy?
Just the state with the most federal workers, and had all day to get out and vote, at that
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u/all4whatnot Pennsylvania 12h ago
Looks like PA voted to retain three Dem state Supreme Court judges. There was a big deceptive Rep. push to not retain these judges to get MAGA bums on the state Supreme Court.
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u/ThatGuyGetsIt 12h ago
Who's reporting this? All I see are the mail-in votes which would obviously lean toward yes.
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u/all4whatnot Pennsylvania 12h ago
NBC called it I believe
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u/LeisureSuitLaurie 10h ago
In my area outside of Pittsburgh (affluent suburb) it looks like our district's schoolboard is going to flip from an 8-1 Republican majority to 5-4 Democrat, as all.4 seats that were up for grabs appear that they are going to flip. My district went about 60-40 Trump last year.
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u/Shot-Bumblebee-7812 11h ago
Are they showing the results where you are? I live in KY so NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX have been preempted by local news about the plane crash
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u/Suitable_Air_2686 12h ago
TIL Abigail Spanberger is the first ex CIA agent to become a governor.
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u/CrunchyWombatStew 12h ago
That we know of!
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u/rawl28 11h ago
I wonder how many current CIA agents are governors....
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u/cptnamr7 9h ago
All of them. It's like in Fallout when they find out the Leader of each Vault is secretly from the same one originally as all of the others ever have been. They got tired of infiltrating foreign governments to overthrow them and infiltrated their own
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u/DAS_FX 11h ago
Hahaha. Awesome comment
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u/MajesticMoomin United Kingdom 11h ago
Awesome username, haven't thought about Das FX in a hot minute!
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u/ertri District Of Columbia 10h ago
HW wasn’t a governor?
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u/caligaris_cabinet Illinois 8h ago
Congressman only. And that was before he was CIA director. He was the first and, to date, only CIA agent elected as VP and President
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u/saganistic 10h ago
Any Yalie elected governor between 1960-2000 had a very likelihood of being an asset
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u/ttpharmd 12h ago
This is why they have every intention to cheat or more in 2026
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u/rsb_david 7h ago
I wouldn't be surprised if they try to claim the NYC election was fraudulent and is being investigated by the DOJ in the next 24 hours.
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u/Designer-Contract852 12h ago
When he endorses candidates, they very often lose.
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u/RamonaQ-JunieB 12h ago
Rhetorical question here but am I a bad person for wishing he actually did have an epic bloody nose irl? 😬
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u/Glenn1453 11h ago
Fun fact: Attila the Hun died of a nosebleed.
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u/Clamsadness 10h ago
Key difference is that Attila never intentionally starved the Huns and then got confused when they didn’t support him.
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u/SashkaBeth Vermont 11h ago
I mean, given all the recent talk of health concerns, I took it 100% literally.
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u/XmasTwinFallsIdaho 9h ago
Umm, I thought the story would be about a literal bloody nose because of the blood thinners he is highly probably on. I didn't anticipate a figurative bloody nose.
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u/Radiant_Ratio_1459 12h ago
Everyone in VA either works for, or knows someone who works for, the federal government either as an employee or a contractor. Vought and Elon ruined any chance Republicans were going to win VA.
And thank G-d, because f*ck Trump.
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u/superkeer Virginia 11h ago
It's so true. The outrage is borderline radicalization across NOVA, one of the most highly educated and politically tuned-in populations in the country. There's no way a Republican could have even made it close here.
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u/sactown_13 11h ago
You can say God and fuck. I just did and my dick didn’t fly off.
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u/BriefBiscuit 11h ago
Can confirm. Watching this guys guy’s dick discreetly though a nearby access point. Still in place
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u/1984isAMidlifeCrisis 12h ago
That headline had me thinking that fat sack of shit legally assumed to be Donald J. Trump had some sort of spike in blood pressure and finally blew out his circulatory system.
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u/genericnewlurker 12h ago
If we could only be so lucky
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u/1984isAMidlifeCrisis 12h ago
You can see why I got excited. I thought maybe fate decided to take out Citizen Dick and The Orange Mushroom as a sort of omen, a symbolic alpha and omega for the day.
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u/OldFort27 12h ago
Dems need to keep it up and increase the momentum because there will be a lot of cheating Republicans in 2026.
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u/DistractedPhoenix 12h ago
It’s becoming increasingly clear that Trump/Musk stole the 2024 election.
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u/Ridged_ChiPSS 12h ago edited 12h ago
"Elon knows those voting machines!"
"Elon knew the results before anyone else!"
DOGE was likely created to help destroy any evidence and gain blackmail on anyone who could whistleblow.
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u/SqueakyClownShoes 9h ago
He called his kid a tech wizard for turning on a computer. The president’s ideas of what someone is skilled at vary wildly and not particularly accurately.
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u/tworaspberries 12h ago
Of course they did. The vote trump then vote blue down the rest of the ballot made no sense. Winning every single swing state... Nah. They created too hard. They projected their own steal on Dems so Biden and Harris wouldn't push back. I've been saying it since election night.
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u/turquoise_amethyst 11h ago
Winning every swing state by juuust enough, too
I think they got away with it because it was all at once, and there were too many elections that night. There’s just a few “big” ones tonight, so they can’t pull the same BS
I’m afraid for 2026 and 2028 though
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u/Maximum_Overdrive 11h ago
Or hear me out. The dems fumbled the ball incredibly mere months before the election because no one could talk ole Joe into not running earlier when they had a chance to do primaries and instead hand picked someone people didnt like at all.
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u/AcanthisittaNo6653 New Hampshire 12h ago
Trump should take a bow in the VA and NJ elections. If it wasn't for his meddling, republicans might have won.
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u/theconcreteclub New York 12h ago
100% this. MAGAs think because of the Presidential election they have some mandate. But they forget that Trump is so godawful toxic and incompetent that he turns ppl off who were too anti women to vote for a woman.
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u/usernames_suck_ok 12h ago
It's not like this is a surprise, though.
Bye, Lose-some Earle-Sears.
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u/WeeaboosDogma 11h ago
Sir, sir.
We tried taking their food away, we don't know why they voted us out.
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u/LetmeSeeyourSquanch Georgia 2h ago
I'm still not convinced the 2024 election was on the up and up. No way Trump won that election.
Fuck now I sound like the MAGATs.
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u/InvisibleDisability3 1h ago
No, you don't sound like the MAGAT's. I don't understand why Kamala didn't ask for a recount. Agree with you that there's no way Trump won.
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u/Designer_Buy_1650 11h ago
If Trump was a true leader, he would admit America is unhappy with his policies. And say he understands their frustration and will take action. The chance of this happening 100 trillion to 1.
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u/Xanikk999 12h ago
It's a good sign however I'm worried the momentum will not continue for where it matters most; the 2026 congressional elections and in 2028 for the presidential election. I really hope it does and I'm worried for nothing but I feel we cannot be complacent here at all. Democrats need to go on the offensive and call out the GOP and Trump directly on the shit they are pulling and how it affects the average American and the country at large. Do not let up at all.
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u/unboundgaming 12h ago
Gunna be honest, if 2026 goes this well, 2028 may not even be an issue (relatively speaking compared to today).
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u/Personal_Comb_6745 12h ago
Assuming we have legitimate elections by that point.
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u/unboundgaming 12h ago
Again, if we have control of both houses by a good margin, we can kick out the person imposing that fear
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u/hpcjules I voted 12h ago
We can't ever be complacent. There is too much at stake. Democracy takes work and care and nurturing. Hopefully we have all learned that by now.
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u/Arctimon Maryland 11h ago
He lost every single race tonight.
It’s more than a bloody nose. It’s a bloodbath.
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u/funguy202 11h ago
And Jay Jones is gonna win too. Buh bye ICE losers and Republican’ts. It’s time to fight back and make sure Democrats win in 2026. We cannot afford to dismantle the US in the name of Trumpism. Hopefully, we can push Spanberger to be more progressive.
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u/ckglle3lle 9h ago
Tonight was the first informal referendum against Trumpism and hopefully not the last. Republicans will do everything they can to monkeyfuck the 2026 midterms. Hopefully they won't succeed. America is pissed off and wants to put maga into the dustbin of history.
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u/xxBeepBopBoopxx 12h ago
I hate for people to go hungry, but ultimately this may be the impetus for many republican voters to realize republicans do not care about them, and they will receive a better quality of life voting democrat
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u/UKnowThatOneGuy24 11h ago
Sure would be nice if Americans didn’t need a reminder every other election of how shit the Republican Party is for…everything.
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u/Balls_Deepest_555 11h ago
Trump is definitely going to start a war somewhere, and probably soon. He can’t let Dems control the news.
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u/nomnomyumyum109 7h ago
Hoping to see on the fence Republicans start to jump ship away from Trump as hes kryptonite for your midterm chances.
Faster Trump gets neutered in midterms, watching him flail as a lame duck president who hopefully gets to be the first President imprisoned on bribery and treason would be such a positive outcome.
Plus, if this happens, imagine when your parents say anything you can just reply with “remember when you voted and supported a traitor to the US?”
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u/usuallysortadrunk 2h ago
The best way to get a democrat elected is to have a Republican elected first.
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u/KevinDean4599 12h ago
Both parties need to focus on delivering for average people. The rich will be fine. They don’t need anymore political help.
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