It's not just that Sean Duffy from the Real World (not really Real World if you think about how the shows were) is running the Transportation Department. It's that the department is clearly being a walking campaign machine for Trump and his anti-woke agenda.
Here's a snippet from the Federal Highway Administration:
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today announced nearly $4.9 billion in available funding for major bridge projects through the Bridge Investment Program, and up to $500 million for repairing or replacing bridges in rural areas through the Competitive Highway Bridge Program. The funding opportunity removes woke Biden-era requirements that tied critical infrastructure funding to social justice and Green New Scam climate initiatives.
This announcement will help address the tens of thousands of bridges across the country – including approximately 42,000 bridges in poor condition – that are in dire need of repair.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, America is building again,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy. “The previous administration handcuffed critical infrastructure funding requirements to woke DEI and Green New Scam initiatives that diverted resources from the Department’s core mission. Under the Trump Administration, America is building again.”
I didn't take yesterday's Downballot report as a call that an upset was inevitable. It was just a forecast of a possible upset, and a reasonable one at that. An upset was always in the realm of possibility but less likely than not. And as it turned out Adelita Grijalva won as expected.
I basically agree, but a lot of what backed up the reports wasn't a fact. An opinion poll is an attempt to get good data but not a fact in any other sense, for example.
In fairness, the Downballot’s pre-election analysis referred to the Foxx Campaign’s own polling and came with a lot of caveats. Like Ben, I certainly didn’t interpret DB’s analysis as indicating a likely upset – quite the contrary.
Why is this comment hidden? All they did was question the Downballot. And credible responses were given that refuted the critique. Absolutely no need for censorship.
Re the Arizona special election yesterday: Why aren't Democrats making more of a fuss over the long delays in filling vacant US House seats? There are currently three empty seats in safe blue districts, which in theory could have made a decisive difference in key votes recently. Has the Texas governor even scheduled a special election yet to fill the Houston-area seat that's been vacant since shortly after the inauguration? It's clear what he's up to: keeping the Democrats vote tally down in the House to enable Johnson to ram through more bad stuff. The Arizona and Virginia vacancies are also taking an inordinate amount of time to fill - state laws are involved, to be sure, but the issue is disenfranchisement and with such a slim GOP majority in the House every vote counts. Simply raising the issue and increasing public awareness of this problem might be helpful in energizing midterm voters. Also highlights the continuing problem of Democrats refusing to retire when age and/or health problems appear: insisting on "dying with one's boots on" is simply unethical and given the delays imposed by state law it leaves Democratic constituencies voiceless in the US House.
I think it's /mostly/ state laws at play. The problem is when the state gives the Governor a lot of leeway to schedule a special election, like the fuckery DeSantis did with Alcee Hastings' seat.
kind of, yeah, but there is a good government argument for consolidating elections instead of making the state spend more money on a brand new election. Honestly if it were up to me House vacancies would be filled via appointment.
Democrats play the same game. Hochul was going to drag out Stefanik's vacancy for as long as possible. It's just politics both sides play.
But to your point, yes it takes way too long and the voters are the ones that are disenfranchised. It's also absurd that there generally has to be a primary first then a couple months for the election, especially in deep blue or red seats when the primary is tantamount to election. Streamlining this process would be amazing but as it's state-by-state, probably never going to happen.
Are Democrats just as guilty of this as Republicans are? My understanding is that Gov. Hochul was encouraged to drag out the vacancy for Stefanik's seat (if she went through with vacating it) as a way to retaliate against Republicans for having done the same thing on multiple occasions already.
FL-27: “Peguero was raised by a mother from Ecuador and a father from the Dominican Republic, and he has a background in law and politics. He spent time working for former Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and was also a former Miami-Dade County homicide prosecutor. “ From coverage by The Hill.
Imho, this is extremely concerning (gift link below):
DOJ Hits States With Broad Requests for Voter Rolls, Election Data
"The Trump administration and its allies have launched a multipronged effort to gather data on voters and inspect voting equipment, sparking concern among local and state election officials about federal interference ahead of the 2026 midterms.
"The most unusual activity is happening in Colorado — a state that then-candidate Donald Trump lost by 11 points — where a well-connected consultant who says he is working with the White House is asking county clerks whether they will allow the federal government or a third party to physically examine their election equipment. Federal agencies have long offered technical assistance and cybersecurity advice to election officials but have not examined their equipment because election laws tightly limit who has access.
"Separately, the Justice Department has taken the unusual step of asking at least nine states for copies of their voter rolls, and at least two have turned them over, according to state officials."
Tom Begich's denunciation of Nick Begich is not quite as scathing as the attacks by the Kennedy family on RFK Jr. But the champion of familial invective has to be Mary Trump.
I'm referring to the original 2014 Senate GOP Primary race where Liz Cheney was issuing a challenge to Senator Mike Enzi, one of the least likely GOP Senators who would have ever been primaried. Cheney ended her race in January 2014.
The rift between Cheney and her sister Mary Cheney started in this Senate primary race. Had Liz Cheney come out for gay marriage early on and didn't have the rift, assuming she did primary Senator Enzi out of office, the odds of her losing the election in 2014 would have been 2% considering WY is one of the darkest red states in the U.S.
Liz Cheney, the daughter of former vice president Richard B. Cheney, announced Monday that she has decided to end her bid to become a U.S. senator from Wyoming, citing "serious health issues" in her family.
Cheney's decision brings an abrupt end to a high-profile campaign that shook the Wyoming political landscape and unfolded against the backdrop of a deeply personal and very public rift with her sister over the issue of gay marriage.
Tom Begich denounced Nick Begich? Is there a link where I can see more? I didn't see any mention in today's digest but perhaps I didn't look carefully.
From today's digest: "There's also talk that Peltola could instead run to reclaim her old job as Alaska's lone House member by seeking a rematch against Rep. Nick Begich―a Republican who happens to be Mark and Tom's nephew. (Tom Begich wrote an op-ed slamming his younger relative earlier this year.)"
Pro-oil is a suicidal position for the human race. Is there a good reason a Democrat running for that seat has to favor a fuel source that's killing us?
Kern County CA: You could call it the westernmost county of Oklahoma. It is where many of the Dust Bowl era Okies settled and their descendants still live. The economy is powered by agriculture and the oil industry, like OK or TX.
Oh yes, Kern County has a lot of oil and also grows a lot of almonds and grapes. I visited Bakersfield last month and saw for myself. Both refining facilities and grasshopper oil pumps. My mother's mother's parents moved there from Idaho (which they moved to from Utah) because it provided the most stable employment...until my great-grandfather fell from a great height while welding an oil storage tank.
is there a reason based on the economics of the district: yes. Kern County is the largest oil producing county in California. "There Will Be Blood" was based on Kern County. It's Kevin McCarthy (remember him?) country.
Is there a reason based on an appeal to humanity: no.
I've pretty much written off humanity at this point. We couldn't briefly rally together for a worldwide pandemic, no way will we make real sacrificies for the climate.
Multiple COP conferences for the last several years have produced landmark agreements worldwide that are designed to address a considerable portion of the climate change issues.
Progress isn’t going to happen overnight but keep in mind that towards the end of 2018 the Ozone Layer started healing. Decades after the original Montreal Protocol was agreed to back in 1987.
The Spanberger campaign is well ahead of where McAuliffe was at this time four years ago in terms of organization and strength. Also the fact that Youngkin has a sizable disapproval rate is not good news for Republicans here. With very few exceptions, people in Virginia tend to LOVE their Governors.
Wider margins than one might think, but not terribly surprising given everything. Notably, Miyares' incumbency may not be helping him, but he doesn't seem to have made a particularly deep impression. At best he seems Generic R, which may not cut it in this environment. The Trump approval for is in line with or only slightly worse than nationally, so this can't be easily dismissed as a too-blue sample.
And the "Youngkin's second term" theme may not be a silver bullet for Earle-Sears, either, given his rather tepid approval.
"TRUMP showed House Republicans a draft letter firing Powell Tuesday. House Republicans were at the White House to talk through problems with a trio of cryptocurrency bills that the chamber was planning to consider this week."
No they won’t. They already made it clear he can’t fire Powell in May, and they wouldn’t have gone through all this trouble to make that carve-out otherwise.
This is one of those things that I think Trump is fully aware of, unlike say Liberia being an English speaking country, but he knows the public doesn't have a clue what's going on so his public persona can put on an act. The Woodward covid tapes are my prime example, Trump very obviously knew what was going on in pretty fine detail in private, yet in public he was telling us to ingest bleach.
I think Powell would hang around just out of spite. I definitely could see other Fed Governors get increasingly open to small rate cuts, though, as the year progressed
Haven't seen this mentioned yet, but last night Trayon "Ward 8" White won the special election to replace himself after being expelled from the DC Council for accepting $156k in bribes. He won with under 30% of the vote so with 3 others getting 22-28%, so clearly somewhat fluky but still an embarrasment. I think this only accelerates Trump and the GOP's talk of a "DC Takeover", whateve that means.
He is anticpated to be expelled again shortly, which would setup yet another special, something the District certainly shouldn't have to be paying for. Bottom line, not good for DC at all.
DC should implement a RCV system or something similar if they're going to have a re-do. Perfect excuse to get some good government election rules in place.
Im digging around on free time but haven't found anything solid yet. I'm hopeful she may have closed the gap further or even squeezed out a narrow win. Regardless definitely should invest in the 5th and hopefully if the city turns we can get more of a bench out of there.
It's not just that Sean Duffy from the Real World (not really Real World if you think about how the shows were) is running the Transportation Department. It's that the department is clearly being a walking campaign machine for Trump and his anti-woke agenda.
Here's a snippet from the Federal Highway Administration:
https://highways.dot.gov/newsroom/president-trumps-transportation-secretary-sean-duffy-announces-availability-5-billion
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WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today announced nearly $4.9 billion in available funding for major bridge projects through the Bridge Investment Program, and up to $500 million for repairing or replacing bridges in rural areas through the Competitive Highway Bridge Program. The funding opportunity removes woke Biden-era requirements that tied critical infrastructure funding to social justice and Green New Scam climate initiatives.
This announcement will help address the tens of thousands of bridges across the country – including approximately 42,000 bridges in poor condition – that are in dire need of repair.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, America is building again,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy. “The previous administration handcuffed critical infrastructure funding requirements to woke DEI and Green New Scam initiatives that diverted resources from the Department’s core mission. Under the Trump Administration, America is building again.”
In simple terms: He's a damn liar!
I'm pretty sure Ken Martin picked the person to run the social media account for @TheDemocrats. Can people stop using him as a punching bag?
Which negative signs have you seen so far?
Not bad at all considering the district
That's a huge amount to raise in 1 day in any district!
The biggest problem is that there’s an independent spoiler preparing a run here too named Matt Cavanaugh.
He’d be way more useful running against Boebert, IMO.
Colorado Springs is a defense based city whose suburbs have been shifting blue. Her profile may be ideal for the district.
The Dem nominee in 24 raised almost nothing so this is great news we should be pushing for this seat after the 8th.
CO-03 and CO-04 were closer than CO-05 on the congressional level, though.
I'm aware. I don't think that will be the case this time for numerous reasons we've discussed previously.
I don’t remember such a discussion taking place. Can you link it back to me?
I didn't take yesterday's Downballot report as a call that an upset was inevitable. It was just a forecast of a possible upset, and a reasonable one at that. An upset was always in the realm of possibility but less likely than not. And as it turned out Adelita Grijalva won as expected.
I basically agree, but a lot of what backed up the reports wasn't a fact. An opinion poll is an attempt to get good data but not a fact in any other sense, for example.
In fairness, the Downballot’s pre-election analysis referred to the Foxx Campaign’s own polling and came with a lot of caveats. Like Ben, I certainly didn’t interpret DB’s analysis as indicating a likely upset – quite the contrary.
Some bought into the Foxx hype, which is their right. We're not professionals here getting paid millions, we don't have to answer to anyone.
L + ratio + you tried
(I know they won't see this, I'm just bored at work and wanna snark a bit)
Why is this comment hidden? All they did was question the Downballot. And credible responses were given that refuted the critique. Absolutely no need for censorship.
Re the Arizona special election yesterday: Why aren't Democrats making more of a fuss over the long delays in filling vacant US House seats? There are currently three empty seats in safe blue districts, which in theory could have made a decisive difference in key votes recently. Has the Texas governor even scheduled a special election yet to fill the Houston-area seat that's been vacant since shortly after the inauguration? It's clear what he's up to: keeping the Democrats vote tally down in the House to enable Johnson to ram through more bad stuff. The Arizona and Virginia vacancies are also taking an inordinate amount of time to fill - state laws are involved, to be sure, but the issue is disenfranchisement and with such a slim GOP majority in the House every vote counts. Simply raising the issue and increasing public awareness of this problem might be helpful in energizing midterm voters. Also highlights the continuing problem of Democrats refusing to retire when age and/or health problems appear: insisting on "dying with one's boots on" is simply unethical and given the delays imposed by state law it leaves Democratic constituencies voiceless in the US House.
I think it's /mostly/ state laws at play. The problem is when the state gives the Governor a lot of leeway to schedule a special election, like the fuckery DeSantis did with Alcee Hastings' seat.
And that Abbott is doing with Sylvester Turner's seat.
kind of, yeah, but there is a good government argument for consolidating elections instead of making the state spend more money on a brand new election. Honestly if it were up to me House vacancies would be filled via appointment.
Why aren’t house vacancies filled by appointment anywhere?
Democrats play the same game. Hochul was going to drag out Stefanik's vacancy for as long as possible. It's just politics both sides play.
But to your point, yes it takes way too long and the voters are the ones that are disenfranchised. It's also absurd that there generally has to be a primary first then a couple months for the election, especially in deep blue or red seats when the primary is tantamount to election. Streamlining this process would be amazing but as it's state-by-state, probably never going to happen.
Are Democrats just as guilty of this as Republicans are? My understanding is that Gov. Hochul was encouraged to drag out the vacancy for Stefanik's seat (if she went through with vacating it) as a way to retaliate against Republicans for having done the same thing on multiple occasions already.
FL-27: “Peguero was raised by a mother from Ecuador and a father from the Dominican Republic, and he has a background in law and politics. He spent time working for former Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and was also a former Miami-Dade County homicide prosecutor. “ From coverage by The Hill.
Imho, this is extremely concerning (gift link below):
DOJ Hits States With Broad Requests for Voter Rolls, Election Data
"The Trump administration and its allies have launched a multipronged effort to gather data on voters and inspect voting equipment, sparking concern among local and state election officials about federal interference ahead of the 2026 midterms.
"The most unusual activity is happening in Colorado — a state that then-candidate Donald Trump lost by 11 points — where a well-connected consultant who says he is working with the White House is asking county clerks whether they will allow the federal government or a third party to physically examine their election equipment. Federal agencies have long offered technical assistance and cybersecurity advice to election officials but have not examined their equipment because election laws tightly limit who has access.
"Separately, the Justice Department has taken the unusual step of asking at least nine states for copies of their voter rolls, and at least two have turned them over, according to state officials."
https://wapo.st/3IvgS0s
Interesting hypothesis.
Can’t states just refuse to comply?
Yes
An EO is not a law and states/counties have zero legal obligation to cooperate.
Tom Begich's denunciation of Nick Begich is not quite as scathing as the attacks by the Kennedy family on RFK Jr. But the champion of familial invective has to be Mary Trump.
It's not like Liz Cheney needed to diss her own sister in order to win the Senate election.
What would the odds have been that Democrats would have won the Senate seat in WY if Cheney avoided going after her sister? 2%.
House election.
I'm referring to the original 2014 Senate GOP Primary race where Liz Cheney was issuing a challenge to Senator Mike Enzi, one of the least likely GOP Senators who would have ever been primaried. Cheney ended her race in January 2014.
The rift between Cheney and her sister Mary Cheney started in this Senate primary race. Had Liz Cheney come out for gay marriage early on and didn't have the rift, assuming she did primary Senator Enzi out of office, the odds of her losing the election in 2014 would have been 2% considering WY is one of the darkest red states in the U.S.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2014/01/06/liz-cheney-to-end-wyoming-senate-bid-citing-family-health-issues/
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Liz Cheney, the daughter of former vice president Richard B. Cheney, announced Monday that she has decided to end her bid to become a U.S. senator from Wyoming, citing "serious health issues" in her family.
Cheney's decision brings an abrupt end to a high-profile campaign that shook the Wyoming political landscape and unfolded against the backdrop of a deeply personal and very public rift with her sister over the issue of gay marriage.
The Miller family is not exactly wild about Stephen.
The Gosar siblings come to mind here
Tom Begich denounced Nick Begich? Is there a link where I can see more? I didn't see any mention in today's digest but perhaps I didn't look carefully.
From today's digest: "There's also talk that Peltola could instead run to reclaim her old job as Alaska's lone House member by seeking a rematch against Rep. Nick Begich―a Republican who happens to be Mark and Tom's nephew. (Tom Begich wrote an op-ed slamming his younger relative earlier this year.)"
I just searched via Google for the link.
Wow. Quite a damning statement.
https://www.adn.com/opinions/2025/05/23/opinion-a-troubling-vote-for-alaska-and-for-the-nation/
Dr. Jasmeet Bains, a pro-oil moderate Democrat is running for the seat held by Republican David Valadeo of California.
She represents Salas' district.
A strong candidate, but she has a formidable primary foe in Randy Villegas.
Pro-oil is a suicidal position for the human race. Is there a good reason a Democrat running for that seat has to favor a fuel source that's killing us?
Her county depends on the oil industry.
I didn't know that.
Kern County CA: You could call it the westernmost county of Oklahoma. It is where many of the Dust Bowl era Okies settled and their descendants still live. The economy is powered by agriculture and the oil industry, like OK or TX.
Oh yes, Kern County has a lot of oil and also grows a lot of almonds and grapes. I visited Bakersfield last month and saw for myself. Both refining facilities and grasshopper oil pumps. My mother's mother's parents moved there from Idaho (which they moved to from Utah) because it provided the most stable employment...until my great-grandfather fell from a great height while welding an oil storage tank.
is there a reason based on the economics of the district: yes. Kern County is the largest oil producing county in California. "There Will Be Blood" was based on Kern County. It's Kevin McCarthy (remember him?) country.
Is there a reason based on an appeal to humanity: no.
I've pretty much written off humanity at this point. We couldn't briefly rally together for a worldwide pandemic, no way will we make real sacrificies for the climate.
Multiple COP conferences for the last several years have produced landmark agreements worldwide that are designed to address a considerable portion of the climate change issues.
Progress isn’t going to happen overnight but keep in mind that towards the end of 2018 the Ozone Layer started healing. Decades after the original Montreal Protocol was agreed to back in 1987.
Yep. We have to bet our lives on engineering.
VA (all elections) poll. Rs are in big trouble. Spanberger by 12 and more. https://x.com/samshirazim/status/1945493219480920197
They had a tight race with a McAuliffe edge of 3 in mid October 2021, but with lots of undecideds.
The Spanberger campaign is well ahead of where McAuliffe was at this time four years ago in terms of organization and strength. Also the fact that Youngkin has a sizable disapproval rate is not good news for Republicans here. With very few exceptions, people in Virginia tend to LOVE their Governors.
James Trout mentioned "sizable disapproval" not net disapproval.
His approval rating is 49 per cent. That's not good for a Virginia Governor.
Between Trump in the WH, the dissension in the VAGOP ranks and the fact that Sears is not Youngkin, I think Spanberger wins this fairly comfortably.
Yes. Spanberger can do potentially even better than Ralph Northam did back in 2017.
Meanwhile here in the Old Dominion: https://bluevirginia.us/2025/07/new-virginia-poll-spanberger-12-49-sears-37-hashmi-10-46-36-jones-9-46-37?fbclid=IwY2xjawLkoIVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFORnZHMkJBeUtQTXJhcHpFAR5Z3Y67cUFZA_n2WBiLzlf-SoHpmshe6AwjKVQIVUSGaaHJ1e0cPAjO04kcAA_aem_ImnsT-oxalepkMb_KV50RQ
As far as I'm concerned, Governor Hochul all but endorsed Mamdani on Morning Joe today.
https://youtu.be/d9VI5rgeDnE?si=_eUZVO6BEjJGAiN2
New Virginia Poll from VCU Wilder
Governor
Spanberger (D) 49%
Earle-Sears (R) 37%
Lt. Gov
Hashmi (D) 45%
Reid (R) 36%
Attorney General
Jones (D) 46%
Miyares (R) 37%
Trump Approval
Approve 40%
Disapprove 55%
Youngkin Approval
49% Approve
39% Disapprove
https://x.com/samshirazim/status/1945493219480920197
Wider margins than one might think, but not terribly surprising given everything. Notably, Miyares' incumbency may not be helping him, but he doesn't seem to have made a particularly deep impression. At best he seems Generic R, which may not cut it in this environment. The Trump approval for is in line with or only slightly worse than nationally, so this can't be easily dismissed as a too-blue sample.
And the "Youngkin's second term" theme may not be a silver bullet for Earle-Sears, either, given his rather tepid approval.
I think Miyares is history come November. He may have more money on hand than his Democratic opponent, but the headwinds are going against him.
If Kamala had won, it would be a different story.
In the future, please link directly to the poll info, not Twitter. Twitter is not a credible source, as a lot of people make up stuff there.
https://wilder.vcu.edu/news-and-events/news-posts/commonwealth-poll-in-virginia-governors-race-democratic-candidate-spanberger-leads-gops-earle-sears-49-to-37.html
"TRUMP showed House Republicans a draft letter firing Powell Tuesday. House Republicans were at the White House to talk through problems with a trio of cryptocurrency bills that the chamber was planning to consider this week."
– Jake Sherman, Founder and Editor of Punchbowl
https://nitter.poast.org/JakeSherman/status/1945510501468741954#m
Somehow I think this is one injunction the Republican 6 would not stay. Assuming Powell challenges it.
They all but signaled it in as blunt of terms as they can earlier this spring
This isn’t going to happen. Trump doesn’t have the authority to fire Powell and he’ll refuse to leave if Trump tries something.
The president is not allowed to fire the Fed chair. It’s in the Federal Reserve Act and SCOTUS made it clear.
TACO backed down on his threat to fire Powell after meeting with GOP politicians today.
Meh. The Supreme Court will find a way to uphold it if he does.
No they won’t. They already made it clear he can’t fire Powell in May, and they wouldn’t have gone through all this trouble to make that carve-out otherwise.
Also, Trump already TACO’d on this.
https://x.com/DeItaone/status/1945513622719135870
He’s very sensitive to market reaction on these things. Just like with the tariffs. Stocks dropped earlier today, and now they’re back up.
Trump is the ultimate "sToNkS" guy
I’m sure if Trump were a kid in today’s world he’d have an interactive stock market video game the moment it would be up for pre-order.
Just wait for Donald to TACO his TACO.
Meanwhile, Trump and his disciples sure are doing their utmost to make Jerome Powell’s life a living hell.
Powell also does not personally unilaterally set rates, contrary to what Trump seems to believe
This is one of those things that I think Trump is fully aware of, unlike say Liberia being an English speaking country, but he knows the public doesn't have a clue what's going on so his public persona can put on an act. The Woodward covid tapes are my prime example, Trump very obviously knew what was going on in pretty fine detail in private, yet in public he was telling us to ingest bleach.
Powell’s term ends in less than a year anyway. Best Trump keep him around as a punching bag.
How likely do you think it is he’ll last until then?
I think Powell would hang around just out of spite. I definitely could see other Fed Governors get increasingly open to small rate cuts, though, as the year progressed
Undermining the independence of the Federal Reserve and promoting more crypto is a great way to crash the economy.
Uhm, so is everything that Trump has done and is doing ever since 20 January.
But so far, the expectation that he won't follow through on his most-insane pronouncements has been baked into the market.
That could change fast and HARD.
He doesn't follow through because of the market. That's entirely what TACO is about. We saw it with the Tariffs and we're seeing it with Powell.
Haven't seen this mentioned yet, but last night Trayon "Ward 8" White won the special election to replace himself after being expelled from the DC Council for accepting $156k in bribes. He won with under 30% of the vote so with 3 others getting 22-28%, so clearly somewhat fluky but still an embarrasment. I think this only accelerates Trump and the GOP's talk of a "DC Takeover", whateve that means.
He is anticpated to be expelled again shortly, which would setup yet another special, something the District certainly shouldn't have to be paying for. Bottom line, not good for DC at all.
DC should implement a RCV system or something similar if they're going to have a re-do. Perfect excuse to get some good government election rules in place.
Agreed. Especially in a city where the D primary is the only contest that matters
RCV is being implemented, we had a referendum and approved it. It’s just not in place yet.
Would it be in place for this hypothetical second special election?
Has anyone calculated how Colorado Springs voted in the 2024 election? (citywide)
In 2020 trump won 49.9-46.4. I haven't seen numbers for 2024 yet, but I would guess it was very similar, if not a little worse for trump.
Im digging around on free time but haven't found anything solid yet. I'm hopeful she may have closed the gap further or even squeezed out a narrow win. Regardless definitely should invest in the 5th and hopefully if the city turns we can get more of a bench out of there.