Demokraten übertreffen in Florida, während sie bei zwei Wahlen zum Sieg fahren
https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-special-elections-florida-2123662
Demokraten übertreffen in Florida, während sie bei zwei Wahlen zum Sieg fahren
https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-special-elections-florida-2123662
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“ can we re-garymander this state, come on someone tell us what the next move is
-Florida probably
Are they real dems or will they flip once elected?
Trump is too crazy even for Florida.
Added to the list:
Jan 28th – [Democrat wins Iowa Senate seat in district Trump won by 21 points](https://www.radioiowa.com/2025/01/28/democrat-wins-iowa-senate-seat-in-district-trump-won-by-21-points/)
Jan 29th – [Democrats win control of Minnesota Senate](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5111676-minnesota-senate-democrats-control/)
Feb 16th – [Democrats win Delaware Senate seats in Saturday’s special elections](https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/16/democrats-win-two-delaware-senate-seats-in-special-election/78855423007/)
Mar 11th – [Democrat David Gottfried easily wins Minnesota House special election, restoring a 67-67 power split](https://apnews.com/article/special-election-minnesota-legislature-house-2e194375f99906d1901890ab75eaf994)
Mar 26th – [Democrats take hope from upset win in a GOP-leaning Pennsylvania state Senate district](https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-democratic-party-donald-trump-election-094e907bd9af0d55a3ac76bb5e22d17c)
Apr 1st – [Liberal Wins Wisconsin Court Race, Despite Musk’s Millions](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/wisconsin-supreme-court-crawford-schimel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8k4.DWUK.j49FDXMjG7D3&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare)
Apr 30th – [Democrats Win Landslide in Safe Iowa Seat, Claim ‚Rebuke of Trump‘](https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-win-landslide-safe-iowa-seat-claim-rebuke-trump-2066050)
May 7th – [Republican concedes in North Carolina court race, ending bid to throw out votes](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-concedes-north-carolina-court-race-ending-bid-throw-out-votes-2025-05-07/)
May 13th – [Democrat ousts incumbent Republican in Omaha mayoral race](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5299111-democrat-ousts-republican-omaha-mayoral-race/amp/)
May 20th – [Democrats win New York state Senate race in Trump-friendly district](https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5310726-democrat-sam-sutton-wins-new-york-seat/amp/)
Jun 3rd – [Young Dem Clinches Landslide Election Win in Lindsey Graham’s Backyard](https://www.thedailybeast.com/young-dem-keishan-scott-clinches-landslide-election-win-in-lindsey-grahams-backyard/)
Jun 7th – [Democrats fend off GOP in San Antonio mayor runoff election ](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5337199-gina-ortiz-jones-wins-san-antonio/)
Jun 14th – [Democrat, CN citizen Amanda Clinton wins decisive victory in special state election](https://www.cherokeephoenix.org/news/democrat-cn-citizen-amanda-clinton-wins-decisive-victory-in-special-state-election/article_c6756b40-6518-4cfa-9bf4-7e22e7aea895.html)
Jun 25th – [NH House special election: Democrat Billie Butler wins after facing GOP attacks](https://www.yahoo.com/news/nh-house-special-election-democrat-013437448.html)
Aug 26th – [Democrats break GOP supermajority in Iowa Senate by flipping Republican seat in special election](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/democrats-break-gop-supermajority-iowa-senate-catelin-drey-rcna227419)
**Sep 3rd** – [Democrats Overperform in Florida as They Cruise to Victory in Two Elections](https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-special-elections-florida-2123662)
Democrats lost the April special elections in Florida, but over-performed overall:
* [Republicans win — but underperform — in both Florida special elect
ions](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/01/patronis-fine-trump-florida-00265436)
>On Tuesday, he said in a statement that the results marked an overperformance by Democrats, given that Trump won each seat by more than 30 points in November and Fine and Patronis saw a 14- and 15-point victory, respectively.
And now have won a couple of seats in September, continuing to outperform in Florida:
>Florida Democrats have increased the party’s share of the vote in two state special election victories.
>On Tuesday night, RaShon Young and LaVon Bracy Davis won their elections for Florida’s House of Representatives and Senate, respectively. The proportion of the vote they both received was more than what former vice president and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris won in those seats in the November 2024 election.
Overperform? This is the only SANE way to vote in 2025.
ehh these are deep blue state legislature races where Rs had no expectation of winning. A +18 overperformance is a lot, yes, but in a special election, there’s little to really extrapolate from this.
These are heavily Dem districts and the numbers are basically 60% for Kamala and 70% for these locals which I’m not sure says much. FL is still staying red, especially as MAGA areas like The Villages grow as is most of FL that’s not S FL or Gainesville.
That is why Trump is practicing deployment of troops to polling places.
Headline is weird. Sure, that did seem to be the case, but turnout was less than %6 of the eligible voters.
We have got to stop with this “cruise to victory” mentality. Every election is a hard fight. Nothing is easy don’t fall for this narrative that removing GOP will be easy.
Republicans will amped up their election cheating even higher now.
You know shit is bad when Florida starts going blue.
No they did not.
Young’s election had a total of 9,765 votes. The last election (with same district) was 63,583 voters.
Davis is a bit harder to baseline since the the previous elections didn’t even have a Republican run, but the primary speaks. In Davis’ primary 12,883 voters showed up. Previously 39,495 showed up the prior elections cycle for the primary.
So both districts had far lower turnout than normal, and to make point clear about how this article is garbage, Davis’ district had a Republican get 27% of the votes (6713 votes) that republicans literally weren’t even running in for the past two cycles.
This isn’t over-performing; if anything it’s showing the democrats losing voter volume and their stronghold.
Just a reminder we only have fucking Ronda because he won his original election by .4% or about 33,000 votes.
Ah so they’ve finally remembered what it’s like to have Republicans in charge?
Even those cubanos are fed up? Lmao
I love that when republicans have gotten so bad that gerrymandering doesn’t work anymore, so they just double down on attacking voting rights. /s
Its terrible I read a seemingly positive headline and my first thought is what response will it force?
Thankfully, Davis is 46. She replaced a 76 year old woman who died due to knee surgery complications.
I’m sorry, but if my representative has to worry about dying because of knee surgery then they are probably too old to be serving as my rep.
I recently moved to Illinois from Florida but I wish her all the best luck.
Trying not to get too confident trying not to get too confident remember 2016 all too well remember 2016 all too well
When Trump is on the ballot republicans massively over perform. It’s almost like something fishy is going on
Democrats need to focus on smaller elections the republicans have for 30 years
Dem candidates win special elections in Dem-heavy districts, news at 11!
The reddit hopium for a Blue Wave in 2026 grows ever stronger.