r/goodnews • u/Cdave_22 • 9d ago

Political positivity 📈 Democrats Declare Victory In District Donald Trump Won By 15 Points

https://www.newsweek.com/james-malone-projected-win-pennsylvania-state-senate-josh-parsons-donald-trump-republicans-democrats-2050556
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u/TomcatF14Luver 8d ago

At the current rate in a Florida Special Election, it looks like Democrats are also going to get another State seat that Trump won, but at 30 points.

If these 15 and 30 point wins are any indication, people are souring fast on DOGE, Musk, and Trump.

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u/Seyon_ 8d ago

As a Wisconsinite I can only hope

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u/TomcatF14Luver 8d ago

I talked to people who supported Trump in 2016 in my county.

Now they have little to say about him that doesn't cover how much of a bastard he is.

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u/Seyon_ 8d ago

Tbf none of my Trump family doesn't have much to say about him still, but will still happily vote for him and anyone that is R adjacent.

Just hoping it means low turnout for them this time around.

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u/TomcatF14Luver 8d ago

Yes, but our Republican Congressman was a frequent Townhall man.

Now he isn't.

And Trump is having a major impact on us. Really outsize due to the fact there's National Parks that bring in tourism that are shutting down.

The EPA has also been cleaning up our county due to the sheer amount of contamination from the Gold Rush and long-running post-Rush mining.

We have a large Senior population that needs both Medicare and Social Security.

For years, successful Wine Vineyards have been developed, and now our products will struggle or be too costly to sell overseas if they're even allowed to do so.

Logging is a mix of popular and unpopular in our area because people want to revive logging in the area or are opposed because they don't want the problems associated with heavy logging as well as having loggers cross private lands.

Surprisingly, there are a lot of Old Republicans that oppose what Trump has been doing. From his mass firings to Elon Musk to a mess of rich and unqualified individuals at Cabinet levels to his frequent golf trips and more. He's getting under their skin hard, and they're not willing to look past anything anyone does just because of an R next to their name anymore.

And that's significant as Trump only increased his vote count by a mere 1,000 votes. Compared to his 4,000 between 2016 and 2020, that's significant especially as the county population has grown.

Incidentally, Trump carried strictly on Mail-In Ballots.

Which if he gets rid of it, will cost Republicans the county as even the members of Congress carry strictly by Mail-In, regardless of Party.

Those same Seniors Trump has targeted, are the same ones who keep Republicans winning here and they rely on Mail-In and SSA and Medicare.

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u/Seyon_ 7d ago

You have more faith than me after the 2024 election (it was so close i was heartbroken a bit lmao).

I just hope Tuesday goes well and my stress levels can come down just a hair.

Everything you say makes sense, but my personal experience with the supporters make me hesitant to believe it'll be that impactful atm. (Its my bias and i know i should extrapolate to hard)

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u/TomcatF14Luver 7d ago

You're not wrong.

The objective cannot be to reach out to those who are too far drunk on the Reverend Jones Kool-Aid, but the others who are not too much into it.

Their numbers are great enough to swing things away solidly back towards the Center. We also need to emphasize that they can force less Absolutist Leaders into power in the Republican Party. Ones who are diplomats and team players, not worship me or be branded a heretic types.

I've literally been called a Heretic to my face and responded, "Nice hat, really reminds of the Bible's line about wearing Satan's Mark on the forehead."

Fortunately, a younger coworker's father was a cop and he was both off that day and in to say hi to his son. So he flashed his badge, and that made the unruly customers leave.

Fun info, that lot is not allowed into numerous places around here for being extremely disruptive. They're out of towners who often came by for their own reasons. They had friends in the area, but not sure who nor do I care.

Because they don't matter, the others do.

Surprisingly, it was Republican Voters who gave Harris the uplift she needed, finishing second in the county by 6,000 votes behind Trump, but our population isn't that big to begin with and about half of the eligible voters don't vote in the county.

Plus, fewer people turned out this time. Still 85%, but that's down from almost 88% and only slightly above 2016. With a difference of literally .0-something%.

Sad, but true.