Uh, it's not a "big Donald Trump district" any longer.
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Main stream media sucks so bad.
Dug a bit, and apparently this seat has literally never been held by a Republican; this is quite the misleading headline.
Her name is "Chasity", by the way, not "Chastity".
This shit is exactly how things were reported in the runup to the 2024 election. Even if they don't fuck with the elections, I am confidently predicting the midterms are not going to be a blowout like people are hoping.
The Dems might, might, barely squeeze out a majority in the House. And then starts the age old game of having to capitulate to the 2-3 congresspeople who say they're Dems but vote with the GOP every time.
Not a snowballs chance in hell of Dems winning the Senate.
People are going to be hit with a truck of reality come the mid terms. Not that they'll learn anything. Next election will be the same shit of "we're totally going to win guys!" before fizzling into nothing.
If you are hoping for the midterms for justice to be served against this administration, keep dreaming. It's not going to happen. Ever. Trump will die before he ever sees the inside of a courtroom regarding Epstein. No matter who the next leadership is, they'll choose to move on without giving any consequences in the name of "unity".
And the people will grumble, and ultimately do absolutely nothing about it.
First of all, IF the Midterms actually happen unmolested by MAGA, it WILL be a giant blowout. MAGA only has a one vote lead, and literally EVERY special election has gone against Republicans badly.
The Manchurian DINOs are a realistic problem, and Dem leadership needs to strongly address the issue with those people. That will require NEW DEM leadership across the board.
And the Senate wasn't in contention before, but with MAGA being so universally reviled in this country, it's now in play.
And Trump probably won't see a jail cell due to Epstein, unless we suddenly get about a hundred smoking guns, including photos and videos. The evidence is too messed up, the chain of possession is destroyed, it has been under the control of MAGA, and NONE of it is trustworthy as evidence.
On the other hand, I believe that he will see a jail cell over his Insurrection and his Stolen Classified Documents, and a LOT of other stuff. Those prosecutions have been put on hold, but they aren't gone. When Trump is out of office, Jack Smith can refile, and start up right where he left off, and he seems highly motivated to do just that.
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I hope your optimism is vidicated, but....
This specific race was for a deep-blue seat, prior to this race the Republican candidate had at best gotten 18%, and this time the republican got 38%, the most any republican has ever gotten for that state seat. Comparing Trump vote to state senate run seems to be apples and oranges for this district.
EVERY special election has gone against Republicans badly.
Well, except for the fact that not a single seat has been flipped. I suppose I can grant that the Republicans slipped 10-15 points in these races compared to the election where Trump was running, but of the three chances to actually flip a republican seat, none did anything.
On the senate, looking at the seats up, I could see maybe Georgia, NC, and Maine as potentially flippable, very remote chance of Texas... So 2-3 gains for the democrats at most. I don't think Senate is realistically in play, they need to flip 4 red seats to get even a simple majority, still well short of a filibuster proof majority and impossibly short of a veto-proof/remove president from office majority.
his Insurrection and his Stolen Classified Documents
While not 'dead' dead, the supreme court basically gave him a 100% pass on the insurrection, they basically declared that a president cannot be held criminally liable for anything while in office. The classified documents maybe but the supreme court can easily intervene and say the records are forever under the president's jurisdiction to classify as he pleases.
the supreme court basically gave him a 100% pass on the insurrection, they basically declared that a president cannot be held criminally liable for anything while in office.
It's important to remember two things: SCOTUS ruled that POTUS had immunity for any OFFICIAL acts as president, AND this has not been tested in any court.
Official Acts as president would be those outlined in the Constitution, not literally everything he does, like MAGA likes to tell you (hint: they lie, all the time). MAGA was making noise about charging Obama with murder for his drone strikes of terrorist targets (even though they'd have no problem doing worse), but this ruling would give him immunity for that, since that falls under his Constitutional responsibilities. On the other hand, if Trump were to make good on his threat to shoot someone in the head on Fifth Avenue, he could still be charged with murder, since the murder of an innocent American citizen would NOT fall under his Constitutional responsibilities. Gee, where did the order for ICE to start shooting people in the street originate?
Likewise, there is no possible way that any activity as seditious as leading an Insurrection could ever be interpreted as within a president's Constitutional responsibilities, nor would stealing hundreds of classified documents, some of which were likely sold.
He will still get away with countless crimes, hidden by his presidency as well as the sheer flood of corruption that flows from him on an industrial scale. But there are plenty that he can still answer for. For instance, his corruption has directly violated the emoluments clause in mind-boggling ways, and all of it is expressly forbidden in the Constitution, and therefore could NEVER be construed as "OFFICIAL" acts.
The Supreme Court has never put guidelines on the presidency before that ruling, and now there are actual boundaries, as defined by "OFFICIAL Acts." Obviously, MAGA is going to interpret that as broadly as possible, and it's up to the rest of America to interpret it tightly, and test it in court, over and over and over.
I generally ignore anything from News Week, Raw Story, or the Daily Beast. They all do stuff like this. They twist facts to get a story where there is none.
Who the fuck calls themself Chasity?
Nobody. Usually it's the parents who decide their child's name.
Not me, I got to pick my own name as a child. Admittedly, "Small-Weiner Stegosaurus" might have been a regrettable choice.
Chasity does.
Yet another over performance by Democrats - this was a Trump +14 district that voted D+24 yesterday.
But is it an overperform? Looking back to 2011, the strongest performance by a GOP for this specific seat is 38%, and it was this election, the last GOP candidate had 18% before this...
For whatever reason, local and presidential elections can very much swing differently, and in this example it clearly looks like you can't read much of anything into the results since it has been different from presidential outcomes already..
In fucking* Louisiana. I love how that's nowhere near the headline. Hilarious.
Democrat Chastity Verret Martinez has won the special election for Louisiana House District 60, defeating Republican challenger Brad Daigle by a wide margin in a district that supported President Donald Trump in 2024.
Take the wins where you can get them, but it's worth noting the vacated seat was held by a Democrat. This isn't a flip. The district traditionally learns blue at the local/state level, as per the article.
Not trying to rain on anyone's parade, but the "oh my god those backwards Louisiana hicks actually voted for a Democrat?!" Narrative is needlessly divisive and kinda shitty. That district has been for years.
The only thing worse than vindictive, bigoted conservatives is vindictive, bigoted leftists who don't want to find ways to live alongside the stupid hicks.
At least they're stupid enough that they can be turned and manipulated to supporting better outcomes, but leftists holding a grudge do entire goddamn worldbuilding exercises around justifying hating everyone with a simple life and a simple mind.
(Go ahead and downvote me browser, while you do, think about what kind of biases you hold against people based on how you imagine their house and yard to look.)
in my experience, it's liberals, not leftists, doing that more often
In my experience there are a LOT of leftists who cling to the label without actually being more than a liberal with some angry outbursts.
I don't disagree. Class Rules Everything Around Me.
The only thing worse than vindictive, bigoted conservatives is vindictive, bigoted leftists who don’t want to find ways to live alongside the stupid hicks.
do you really want me to get my list of people leftists hate because "stupid hicks" is pretty low on the list compared to folk with the wrong skin color or disability or sexuality. of course point that out to a leftist and they'll deny it, but when you look at what they actually do instead of what they say, it's clear as daylight.
I think it's the huge margin for the win, and this:
Voters in Louisiana’s 60th House District, which covers parts of Assumption and Iberville Parishes, have historically supported Democrats at the state and local level, but have shifted toward Republicans in federal elections in recent years. Trump carried the district by a 56‑43 margin in 2024 against former Vice President Kamala Harris, according to calculations by The Downballot. In Assumption Parish, Trump received 67.17 percent of the vote to Kamala Harris’ 31.57 percent, while Iberville Parish was closely divided, with Trump at 49.6 percent and Harris at 48.87.
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There are a lot of really miserable, insufferable kids on Lemmy right now seething about this because it flies in the face of the "voting is useless, everything will be rigged" narrative that they push to validate not wanting to be involved.
Showing up at the polls is not our problem in the US, it's getting people involved enough to actually learn about and read what candidates represent. We had the largest voter turnout in US history over the last couple elections, but people basically voted at random because they tuned out of the political chaos.
It's far more clear this time around who is doing what to disrupt the status-quo in the US and I expect we're going to see a massive swing in the opposite direction between this November and 2028.
There are a lot of really miserable, insufferable kids on Lemmy right now seething about this because it flies in the face of the "voting is useless, everything will be rigged" narrative that they push to validate not wanting to be involved.
They don't want to be involved in the actual democratic process, but they reeeeally don't want to shut the fuck up about their irrelevant opinions.
I am 99% sure it is a CCP effort. Been tracking it for like a year now. Hard to track because it's contagious.
For the love of God always call out doomers for being suspect. They're not here because they're feeling impending doom. They're here to make you feel impending doom.
Russia/Israel/CCP. Almost all of the doomers are voting doesn't work, why aren't you starting a civil war, the dems are just gonna gaza harder than the turnip, etc.
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Because the DNC is emptying out the "victory fund" that neoliberals were stealing from state parties and hoarding to use to convince us to settle for neoliberals in the presidential...
The only reason Republicans are competitive for House/Senate majorities is for decades neoliberals sandbagged the party, and if you didn't play ball they bankrupted your entire state and let Republicans take it to punish you and set an example to get there states.
That's how Jeffries and Schumer got elected as majority leaders, going against them would hurt your constituents and the politicians. Whether you were ethical or not there wasn't really a choice.
That's been over for a year now
We're literally a year deep in the largest reinvesture of funds from DNC to state parties, which has let them all run at campaign pevels.
We keep "over performing" because for the first time in 30 years the goal is as many seats as possible instead of a very slim majority so nothing would get done.
Which is why billionaire owned media keeps pretending this is "over performing" and not just what would normally happen if the oligarchs weren't holding us back by shoving neoliberals down our throats.
But this is gonna keep happening, because it's a fundamental change to the party that caused it.
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Martinez campaigned on a platform focused on affordable insurance, stronger local infrastructure, and expanded access to health care, including mental health and substance-abuse services. She also focused on government transparency, support for public education, and advocacy for working families.
It's almost like if you focus on the stuff that's most important to the vast majority of voters, you'll get more votes. Hmm...
What's hilarious is that all feels like bottom of the barrel stuff, like we should just be doing that stuff by default.
That's why America is stuck in the mud, it goes forward in progress and back to revisionism. It gives with one hand and takes back with the other. This is why a two party system is fraught with paradox. More lines of ascension means more dialogue and progress moves more steadily forward instead of being jerked back and forth. One party is not the solution any but those in power should wish for. There is a reason no one is ruled by a monarchy anymore.
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Be aware: Newsweek spent the lead-up to the 2024 election telling us that we had nothing to worry about and that Harris was going to win.
This has been a consistent placating of the non-MAGAts.
Nothing is more poison to the MAGA brand than Trump being in office. It's why he lost the election in 2020. We saw the burning dumpster fire all around us and went NO THANKS
A third of us said no thanks, another third was all "yes, lemme lick more boot!", and the last third couldn't be bothered to pay attention.
Fuck every single protest non voter. This shit is as much on their shoulders as the maga faithful, the lazy pieces of shit.
Mostly I see people who were desperate to get rid of Trump in 2020 showing their short memories by going back to non-voting. I don't think the actual number of protest-non voters was very high.
Don't blame them at all though. The DNC is squarely to blame. They made a series of terrible decisions and ended up with a bad candidate running a bad campaign and thought they could still win solely on how shitty their opponent was.
"Comfortably"? A 10% margin is considered a landslide. Martinez won by 24 points.
Blatant political bias by Newsweek.
I've been burned too many times for real predictions, but I hope we're about to need all new words for "blowout" soon.
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Why miss the opportunity to say "bigly," and rub in that bastard's fascist face?
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