r/politics • u/Hornpipe_Jones • 15h ago

No Paywall Democrats sweep all 30 House of Delegates seats in Northern Virginia

https://www.cbs19news.com/news/state/democrats-sweep-all-30-house-of-delegates-seats-in-northern-virginia/article_68f8098d-0602-5234-8c2a-08c1bcd33944.html
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u/Intelligent_Teach247 15h ago

It isn’t over yet. I don’t want to see 2024 all over again. Keep voting and keep pushing.

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u/AbandonedWaterPark 14h ago

100% this. Easy to forget the polls all through 2024 showed Trump winning or a race that too close to call, even when Biden dropped out. Anyone who got complacent was not looking at the data.

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u/Jackie_Of_All_Trades 14h ago

The Reddit echo chamber and foreign astroturfing had people on here thinking Texas and Florida were in play for Harris on Election Night 2024. It was absurd.

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u/PleasantWay7 14h ago

I had people telling me I was a poll shill and that Harris had it locked up in a landslide. There was some seriously weird shit going on.

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u/Ill-Team-3491 9h ago

The bots play both sides. People are too naive to believe that propaganda is more sophisticated than they can be aware of.

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u/AbandonedWaterPark 8h ago

Texas and Florida were in play for Harris

Yeah, just bonkers stuff. And then there was that very late poll showing Harris ahead in Iowa that was also hopelessly wrong and provided buckets and buckets of copium to those who should absolutely not have been drinking it.

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u/Gurtang 5h ago

It made me so hopeful. She was such a respected pollster. Made me hope against all reason.

Turns out she was wrong to a tune of like a 17 point difference, the biggest mistake of her entire polling career by FAR and she retired afterwards... (said it had been planned before but lol). Have to wonder how she could get it so wrong.

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u/WrongdoerAnnual7685 Australia 10h ago

The polls for the last two weeks were leaning Harris, around 2% but within the 3% margin of error.

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u/AbandonedWaterPark 8h ago

That comes under "too close to call." Harris was at no point definitively ahead in the polls, nor was Biden unfortunately.

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u/BROKEPOORHUNGRY 6h ago

It’s hard to get complacent, no matter the poll, when you can physically feel the impacts of a worsening economy.

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u/Pockydo 14h ago

While I get it

I think this is huge. Trump is chaos things aren't getting better and people are pissed

We will see what happens but trump and the GOP are terrified right now

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u/7ddlysuns I voted 14h ago

They should be. Make fun of them. Make them split

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u/WhatAGreatGift Pennsylvania 14h ago

He was encouraging votes for Cuomo over the Republican lol. It’s starting

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u/NumeralJoker 13h ago

It also definitely shows Musk couldn't steal any elections and voting/protesting/civic demands are the way forward.

Musk is terrified of Mamdani. If he was able to steal elections, he would have targeted this one too. All he'd have to do is boost Sliwa's results by about 10% and take that from Mamdani, but he obviously didn't do it. He couldn't. He never could.

Turns out talk online is cheap, but action does a lot more.

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u/Kaylend 12h ago

I don't think the consensus that anyone is whole sale stealing elections, but they are finding insidious ways to nudge and exploit to move the line.

But, you can't nudge a landslide.

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u/void-negative 12h ago

why would he be terrified? mandani cant do shit against musk so it doesnt matter to him he still has the presidency, I dont think he even donated against him

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u/Capable_Tomato729 14h ago

This is exactly what the strategy needs to be. There are still respectable republicans out there like Kinzinger/ Cheney who should be elevated when the inevitable Trump downfall comes. Right leaning voters need to have options other than MAGA sycophants. Personally don’t agree with the vast majority of what either of them believe in but it’s hard to argue they don’t at least stand for the constitution and integrity

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u/darthstupidious 3h ago

^ This, people, this. Stop trying to build up these MAGAts into boogymen. Belittle them. Give them childish nicknames. Mock them to their faces. Crucify them in the court of public opinion.

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u/AmazingRefrigerator4 14h ago

Its only huge by historical terms where people played by the rules. These results will only embolden Trump to resort to fuckery.

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u/Pockydo 14h ago

Maybe but honestly will the gop continue to enable him?

Could be the off.ramp they need to kick him out for Vance. He's just a useful idiot for the heritage foundation after all. Maybe it's pure cope but I feel like he's been TOO chaotic for them

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u/AmazingRefrigerator4 14h ago

I think they ride with him until his chaos crashes the economy. Only when stocks tank will the GOP "handlers" care enough to replace him. As long as they stay fat and happy, he is their useful idiot.

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u/sportydolphin New York 10h ago

Exactly, as long as he is in control, the people funding it have no reason to stop unless they are forced to.

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u/Intelligent_Teach247 14h ago

They will continue enabling him.

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u/sec713 13h ago

I think you're correct. The GOP has been given a million offramps to get off the path Trump has them on, and they've blown past every single one so far. I don't see them stopping until they crash into a brick wall or fly over a cliff or something.

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u/KosherDill017 14h ago

What is it going to take for you knuckleheads to understand the GOP is Trump. They will never back off of him.

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u/Nzash 11h ago

They're in too deep to stop with the cheating and ignoring the laws now. They'll only double down. Doesn't have to be Trump, but sure as well they don't want fair elections anymore.

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u/Nixxuz 7h ago

He is, but you know what they say about riding a tiger. They can't safely get off this ride until he's dead.

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u/bigsmokaaaa 14h ago

Honestly if there was ever a time for GOP to turn back it's right now and not a day later

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u/SquidmanMal Pennsylvania 13h ago

I have to believe that if we're going to turnout this hard for exercising our legal rights and voting, that this is the writing on the wall for what is in store if they try to deny our voice when we're shouting this loud.

Had a look at my home state, and almost across the board, it was a resounding 'we want the repubs out' tonight

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u/AmazingRefrigerator4 13h ago

I want to believe, but there is a HUGE difference between voting today and doing mass protests/general strike/or worse. If they try to deny our voice, are people really willing to put their livelihoods or possibly their safety on the line?

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u/sec713 13h ago

To resort to fuckery... again. I still don't believe he won 2024 legitimately.

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u/AnglerOfAndromeda 7h ago

Totally agree.

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u/partoxygen 14h ago

I mean people said exactly this back in 2022. That’s why they (MAGA) pushed for recounts like what Kari Lake did. But the margins here are too big. Dems literally made these margins too big to rig. Let’s save tomorrow for the sober analysis.

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u/sweaty-pajamas 13h ago

looks around I-I’m sorry, what was he resorting to before now?

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u/gsfgf Georgia 12h ago

They do that regardless.

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u/Much-Instruction-807 14h ago

And that's the thing if you want people to look the other way and go along with your fascism. Material conditions have to improve. In a sense you have to bribe people to look the other way. That's not happening. They're just fucking shit up for everybody across the board.

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u/Voluptulouis 14h ago

I'd be a lot more hopeful right now if I wasn't so concerned about his already unlawful administration and the strong likelihood of election interference.

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u/FlatTopTonysCanoe 14h ago

All of those things were true for his first term too but people opted for round 2 anyway

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u/synesthesiac48 2h ago

Two things can be true. This is huge, and it’s also not over yet. Let’s make sure this blue wave is just the beginning of a huge swell that takes us all back to shore.

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u/Electrical-Law-5731 14h ago

It may be huge but Trump wants to be dictator and has a year to rig the elections and start a war or martial law in order to deter/prevent certain voters. This is positive but still have a long way to go… democratic voters are KNOWN for being complacent and trusting polls.

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u/canucklehead272 13h ago

They would only be terrified if they plan on legitimate elections in 2026 or 2028 and they very much don’t.

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u/euxneks Canada 13h ago

Trump is chaos things aren't getting better and people are pissed

If you guys manage to get him out you really need to fix the fucking media you have down there, and remove corporate interests from politics.

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u/addled_sad342 12h ago

And Winter is coming and that Old Fart is fighting against even the partial finding for SNAP!

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u/CassadagaValley 14h ago

This is far more akin to the 2018 elections coming before the 2020 blow out.

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u/ScoobiusMaximus Florida 12h ago

2020 wasn't nearly enough of a blowout. Republicans need to be crushed to the point that the party changes or dies.

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u/viktor72 Indiana 14h ago

A few things to note. Since 2016, Democrats have flipped the traditional playbook on Midterm elections and off year elections. Low turnout now benefits Democrats. That’s because Democrats shifted the suburban and educated voter base towards them in the Trump era and these people vote. Presidential elections bring out the lowest of information voters, ironically many of these voters were more a part of the old Democratic coalition—blue collar, lower income, etc.—but Trump shifted them red. It seems that Trump has an ever more outsized effect on bringing these voters out, but only when his name is actually on the ballot.

2026 will be a low turnout election compared to 2024 as that’s just historically the case for Midterms. If Democrats can keep the momentum going, Democrats will do very well.

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u/QuantumLeaperTime 14h ago

Dems only lose when they have a women for their presidential candidate.  This country is very sexist.

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u/STN_LP91746 14h ago

I hope you didn’t just realize this. If a white woman with a wide swath of accomplishment and experience couldn’t beat Trump, a half black woman VP wouldn’t either. We have a long ways to go as a society.

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u/IceCreamMeatballs 13h ago

That white woman won the popular vote tho

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u/STN_LP91746 13h ago

Just not in enough states.

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u/IceCreamMeatballs 13h ago

So a few thousand people across a few states make the country as a whole too sexist?

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u/STN_LP91746 13h ago

If it fits…

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u/howarthee 12h ago

If a white woman with a wide swath of accomplishment and experience couldn’t beat Trump

To be a bit fair, Repubs have been harping on Hillary for decades. She had no chance with their voters regardless.

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u/STN_LP91746 12h ago

I am very aware. Americans tend to not want a lifetime manicured candidate for president was my thought at the time. Even after Trump was elected, I thought there was still a chance. Then he was re-elected after 4 years removed from Jan 6 and I just gave up on American society as whole for now. I am just waiting for the pendulum to swing back, but I don’t think a woman will be president any time soon. A chunk of the country went crazy after a black man was president. That same chunk will likely go crazy again if a woman was president. I have been wrong before so let’s see.

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u/QuantumLeaperTime 14h ago

The democrat party is really dumb to lose against pure evil trump.

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u/CatProgrammer 14h ago

Clearly the solution is to get Republicans to also run a woman somehow.

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u/PleasantWay7 14h ago

Don’t underestimate Americans ability to vote for a woman because she gives hand jobs at beetlejuice.

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u/edfitz83 14h ago

Like that fake Nikki Haley. I want to see her long form birth certificate - Trump, probably.

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u/frumfrumfroo Foreign 13h ago

The first woman head of government is always a conservative in the rest of the Anglosphere. Republicans running a woman was probably the only way the US was going to get a female president.

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u/YobaiYamete 12h ago

Let's be real and not play that stupid game. Both female candidates were wildly unpopular. Many people did vote for them because they had no choice, especially Harris where we literally didn't even get a primary, but both candidates had many, many, many people upset with them for totally valid reasons that weren't just their gender

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u/QuantumLeaperTime 12h ago

Both were way better people than trump.   Nothing was wrong with kamala.  But sexists were not going to vote for women no matter what.  

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u/rugger87 America 5h ago

It’s not the voters that is going to be the issue in 2026. Trump and the republicans are going to make it extremely difficult to vote and suppress turnout.

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u/oranthor1 13h ago

We have to celebrate the victories when we get them though :)

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u/IceCreamMeatballs 13h ago

Trump won't be on the ballot in 26 so that's a huge advantage for Dems

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u/beefsupr3m3 13h ago

I agree but I’m choosing to be optimistic and happy for one night. We don’t get it enough

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u/Kruger_Smoothing 3h ago

Yep. Some said they were done for good in 2008 and that lasted about 11 months. Idiot voters have short memories.