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The Resistance: Demo(n)crats in the Era of Trump

There have been plenty of times to be kind and comply. This is not one of those times. Billboards, funerals, dirty pool politics and blunt truth, this all seems much better to me than the Polis pardon or CBS capitulating in advance, for two of too many examples.
 
Trump won Boca Raton over Harris by some 7,000 votes. I'd like to think it's a harbinger, and on at least some levels it could be, but I think there's still so many people that will just keep taking him at his word ('ending wars!'). It'd be nice to not feel like so many places, like Florida, are just hopeless at this point.
 
Another flip...


"Democrat Emily Gregory, a health fitness small business owner, defeated Trump-backed Republican Jon Maples, a financial adviser, in a race for the open Florida District 87 state House seat, which includes part of Palm Beach County and the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort.

As of 8 p.m. Tuesday, Gregory garnered just more than 51 percent of the vote, while Maples had just less than 49 percent backing with more than 95 percent of the vote in.

Gregory and Maples faced off in the contest after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) tapped Republican Mike Caruso in August to become the county clerk and comptroller. Trump voted by mail in Tuesday’s election."

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Josie Tomkow concedes to Brian Nathan in very close Senate District 14 race

There were two special elections in the Tampa Bay area on Tuesday to fill seats in the state legislature.
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"Current Republican State Rep. Josie Tomkow and Democrat Brian Nathan faced off for District 14's state Senate seat.

With 99% of the precincts reporting, Nathan had 40,212 votes (50.3%) to Tomkow's 39,804 (49.7%). The 0.6% difference between the two was just above the 0.5% that would have triggered a recount, but Tomkow conceded the race Tuesday night.

The district covers part of Hillsborough County, including South Tampa, Carrollwood and Westchase. The seat has been vacant since Lt. Gov. Jay Collins was appointed to that role last summer by Gov. Ron DeSantis."
 
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The momentum is obvious right now and with how badly Iran is going there does t seem to be an obvious turnaround coming. Let's see how desperate they get.
 
The demon cats are at it again!

For much of the day yesterday, Drudge prominently linked a tweet quoting Al Gore as seriously considering one more run in 2028. That had to make a certain kind of person mad! Turns out it was sarcasm during an interview and the clip included in the tweet showed that. They finally took it down this morning for being dumb but still have links up about Harris and HILARY totally running again in '28.
 
To keep Fucking Wisconsin negative, I'll post this here. Chris Taylor won the state supreme court election today. She replaces a Republican judge and probably solidifies the liberal majority through the 2020s. It suggests some DC seats and, mayyybe, the state legislature could be at play. I don't know about any others but, along the western border in the 3rd, that drunk little runt Van Orden might (absolutely should) lose.

But after last year when that Musk boy spent an insane amount of money to lose a court race then, this one got p much no national attention. Hopefully that's telling.
 
Another good sign out of Wisconsin last night: a Dem flipped the mayor's seat in Waukesha. That city and county has been the GOP's strongest base for decades. For years it had been useful for the party, helping to raise and entrench Scott Walker and enact his disastrous policies. Waukesha has become even more reliable during the era of Trump worship.

There have been a lot of these smaller elections adding up to suggest a good November. So far the Dems seem to be picking good candidates...can only hope that continues over the next few months as primaries for the biggest races take place.
 
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Another good sign out of Wisconsin last night: a Dem flipped the mayor's seat in Waukesha. That city and county has been the GOP's strongest base for decades. For years it had been useful for the party, helping to raise and entrench Scott Walker and enact his disastrous policies. Waukesha has become even more reliable during the era of Trump worship.

There have been a lot of these smaller elections adding up to suggest a good November. So far the Dems seem to be picking good candidates...can only hope that continues over the next few months as primaries for the biggest races take place.
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Close vote but still pretty telling that percentage change.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2041710325972488219
 
Eric Swalwell's campaign in California is disintegrating. Hopefully CA has a big enough bench that it won't matter & they can keep the TV Guy out of the governors seat.

I hope the plain candidate gets the nomination in Maine instead of the cool and edgy tattoo guy. The more I hear him, the more I hear Fetterman.

In more competitive races with better candidates, I'm hoping for more questions (in interviews, meets and greets, debates, etc) on what they will do in office, starting next year I hope, to hold every single republican accountable. The ice atrocities will require prison, inability to possess guns or to vote. I want to hear candidates talk about the Trump-Epstein crime ring and coverup as the call for impeachment and removal in 2026. Let the republicans defend it.
 
I'm a little uncomfortable with Platner, too. But you're not getting both accountability and a "plain politician." It's clearly one or the other.
 
Agreed. Some cases, like that big one in Maine, I lean towards the most electable one (and, here, the most palatable one, too). I favor a pick and choose approach on who's getting pushed more...get the majorities back and with enough hold em accountable types to push the centrists further left. That seems more likely to work out best, and as early as next January.
 
Fetterman is brain damaged and had a stroke. There’s a reason the guy is a dumbshit. Platner sounds nothing like him and is easily the most electable of the two Democrats.
 
Platner is the most electable one. He's beating Mills in the polls by 30 points, she won't even debate him. He's better than her on every issue and has broad appeal. He got a tattoo that is clearly wrong and went on a podcast that he shouldn't have. I've been mostly offline for the last 3 weeks so maybe I missed something else but beyond that he's basically excellent. The guy is far left on basically every actual position. Anyone who actually listens to what he says should come away reassured.

That includes his posts going back years. He isn't a Nazi, he has posts going back years clearly denouncing and hating them. He's guilty of saying some stupid shit online but god knows if anyone looked at any of our online history we'd be in trouble. And none of us are army vets suffering from PTSD like he was.
 
Jesus, the Salwell story gets worse and worse. Probably going to be good to clear a path for one other candidate. Is Arnold the last Republican governor in CA?
 
Like really, do you throw a Senate seat back to Susan Collins because someone doesn’t pretend to be perfect. That is the choice we’re talking about here. The person Platner is facing in the primary literally will not go out to campaign because people have already decided they don’t like her. She pardoned a rapist and the other guy says bad words. Goddamn what a tough choice that is
 
I'm neurodivergent or whatever the correct term is now, I have family who are even more deeply challenged. People who act like "retarded" is some kind of horrific slur annoy me. It isn't something that people need to be using anymore but people who censor it like it's on the level of the "N word" borderline offend me.

Platner has some serious flaws but he is better than the alternatives. Fetterman ended up the way he did because he was braindamaged.
 
People have illnesses and diseases, PTSD, strokes, concussions, TBIs, neurodivergences, etc and most of them don't get nazi tats and act like the dipshits we claim to dislike. Nothing good is going to come from using excuses like that. He's a year younger than me and doesn't need, doesn't deserve, the excuse-making.
 
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