Not a surprise, but cutting 13 percentage points out of a lead is pretty incredible.
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Republican Matt Van Epps holds deep-red House district in Tennessee special election
(www.nbcnews.com)
While most of us here would have loved to see Aftyn win, forcing the Rs to heavily fight for a R +22 district is crazy. Both the Speaker and the President did campaigning for a random, deep-red seat, gerrymandered to be a safe Republican district. That's saying a lot.
This also tracks similarly to the special elections in FL earlier, where while the Democratic candidates didn't win, they over-performed by roughly the same margin (13 - 15 points).
we progressives need to focus all of our energy in tennessee from now until 2028 because if we don't take tennessee in 2028 it's just fucking over, hello fascism in america
Why do you think that?
And everyone's voting Republican again next November, because Trump is Just Plain Folks! Sad.
My understanding of the world and it's politics took many years of watching and learning. Now, after the last decade, it all feels like "Prophecy" to me.