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Joe Katz's avatar

Gotta love seeing a book banner getting beaten!

Gregory Speth's avatar

Wonderful. Maybe the cult of Trump is starting to finally erode.

Ellen Thomas's avatar

What a great start to February. May the Republican slide continue. Very curious to know if this means he is actually losing some Christian nationalists, or are we seeing a different electorate being motivated to show up.

Marliss Desens's avatar

This victory gives me hope.

ehstronghold's avatar

The US Senate is in play in November. Now Democrats just need to execute and control everything they can control. (One of those things they can control is ensuring James Talarico wins his primary down in Texas.)

PollJunkie's avatar

The US Senate is in play this cycle! We need 4 flips to win it. (Fetterman is still a wild card even then)

R = held by Republican

Solid D: Minnesota

Lean D: Georgia (Ossoff)

Tilt D: R-Maine , R-North Carolina (Cooper), Michigan

Tossup: R-Ohio (Brown), R-Alaska (Peltola), R-Texas (if Talarico wins)

Tilt R: R-Iowa (if Turek wins), R-Florida (Alex Vindman), R-Nebraska (Independent Osborn)

Lean R: R-Montana (Independent Bodnar), R-Kansas (if Sharice Davids runs)

ArcticStones's avatar

This Texas election result is astounding – a political earthquake!

Have we just entered a new political era where Trump’s “Complete and Total Endorsement” is the “Kiss of Death” for Republican candidates? That is my hope for the November midterm elections!

Rafael Perez's avatar

Take that Bill Maher always talking BS as to Democrats not winning elections.

Don Buckter's avatar

I gave up on Mr. Maher the evening he broke bread with Trump at the White House right after the election.

Zero Cool's avatar

Cenk Uygar doesn't share your sentiment.

More reason why I as a Berkeley liberal continue to watch Bill Maher's show.

ArcticStones's avatar

Cenk Uygar?? The moron who named his "Young Turks" after the group responsible for the Armenian Genocide?

https://www.armenian-genocide.org/young_turks.html

Rafael Perez's avatar

Democrats, Don Buckter, are for the most part, fighting for the people and he keeps saying how they are down to 27% approval They keep Trump at 37 per cent the manipulators. Yet, the special elections speak otherwise.

PollJunkie's avatar

He's a neocon and basically a Never Trump conservative. Too many neocons cosplayed as liberals for the first decade of this century.

Marcus Graly's avatar

Much of The Downballot's readership already knows this, but it's worth pointing out that TX Senate districts are huge, bigger than a US House district. Meaning that the caveats about reading too much from a small constituency don't apply, (though it's still a special election).

Chris Nelson's avatar

This week may finally have broken the psychological long jam of fear that High Maga has killed rational democracy….stay firm, do not surrender to despair 👍🏻👏🤞🙏💕

dragonfire5004's avatar

Republicans lost downballot too, and it wasn’t even close.

https://x.com/CurrentRevolt/status/2017836777696825404

Also tonight: BOTH

@CollinGOP

endorsed candidates lost.

56-44 and 60-40 defeats.

PollJunkie's avatar

This guy is also a progressive Democrat who is a union leader at Lockheed Martin and the VP of the Texas AFL-CIO.