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BREAKING: Democrat Marilyn Lands wins the special election for Alabama House District 10.
Democrats are flipping seats in Alabama, that's how you know Republicans are fukked in November.
fukking Alabama!
“This is a huge win.” Democrat Marilyn Lands flips Trump district in ruby red Alabama special election. Lands campaigned on reproductive rights. (Video: CNN)
BREAKING: Dem wins Alabama GOP seat by 25 POINTS — by running on access to IVF and reproductive rights.
Marilyn Lands wins big in special election.
And Democrats are going to win big in November — no matter what the “polls” say.
The blue wave is coming
1/8
In the Huntsville AL area, Democrats have flipped state House District 10 tonight. In 2022, Marilyn Lands (D) lost by about 7 points. This time, she won by almost 25%, sweeping nearly everything.
This was a stronger margin here than Doug Jones's 23-point spread from 2017.
2/8
I should have worked a pun into this tweet --"the Land(s) is all blue now!"--but oh well.
3/8
Racially, the district isn't *that* far off from AL as a whole-- 57W/22B/10H vs 63W/27B/5H statewide. Though HD-10 has a 7% Asian population (2% for AL overall).
But, per @Redistricter, close to *half* the residents over 25 have a college degree. AL overall is more like 27%.
4/8
Also, going with this, per DRA, it was roughly 60%-39% for McCain and gave Romney 62%. Trump won it by 14 in 2016, but was down to carrying by 1 in 2020--so def. one area of AL moving the wrong way for Rs longer term.
5/8
fair, but such is the nature of special elections-- can't project everything forward totally.
6/8
ofc it happens that, as a Louisiana/LSU boy, some of my most popular maps are of Alabama.
7/8
Unofficial results, but #ALSen#ALSen by Congressional District. Left is 2016, right is 2017. Doug Jones turned HRC's 28% loss into a 1.5% win while *only* carrying #AL07#AL07. Suburban #AL06#AL06 has the biggest swing to Jones (he improved 40% from Clinton).
MADISON, Ala. (WHNT) – District 10 voters elected Democrat Marilyn Lands to the Alabama House of Representatives on Tuesday.
Lands won 62.31% of the vote with 100% of precincts reporting, according to results provided by the Alabama Secretary of State’s office. Her opponent, Republican Teddy Powell, received 37.50% of the vote.
Throughout her campaign, Lands said she was prepared to support women’s reproductive rights, including both access to abortion care and infertility treatments.
“It’s a victory for women, and it’s a victory for families,” Lands said. “We are sending a message to Montgomery and across the country that Alabama is going to move forward.”
Upon her arrival in the state capital, Lands said she is going to work to repeal Alabama’s no exception ban on abortion.
“I want to protect IVF and contraception,” Lands said. ” I also want to be a champion for healthcare and mental healthcare.”
Lands, a lifelong resident of Huntsville, has worked in business administration. She is currently a Licensed Professional Counselor who has previously collaborated to pass mental health legislation supporting children in the state.
“I really feel like we need somebody down in Montgomery who understands mental health issues,” Lands said.
She said the next step is expanding Medicaid and working to improve medical access in rural communities.
“Alabama is changing, North Alabama in particular, but other parts too,” Lands said. “I think we’re ready for something different. We’re tired of Alabama being 40th and 50th for key metrics. We can do better. We are better.”
Lands said she is ready to support education and economic development opportunities.
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Trump’s former communications director
@Scaramucci
:
“There’s a very large group of us, that have worked for the president. It’s sort of a Trump recovery unit…who are going to go out there and passionately explain to the American people the systematic danger of Mr. Trump.”
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“If you go to the rallies, you'll see that the rallies are smaller. And if you look at registrations in the Republican Party… they are down… The combination of those two things does not bode well” for Donald Trump, says his former communications director @Scaramucci
He served four terms in the Senate from Connecticut and was chosen by Al Gore as his running mate in the 2000 election. He was the first Jewish candidate on a major-party ticket.
I don't think people realize just how much Trump had going for him in '16. How much was against him in '20. And how much has turned for the worst in the past few months alone as the cases heat up and the RNC has been turned into a cash grab.
Like...we know he has sizable support out here. So you folks that absolutely obsess over this fact(@the cac mamba and @FAH1223 are 2 big examples) aren't pointing out anything major. He is the Great White Hope. A supposedly white male conservative beacon of light in the darkening wilderness of America. *snicker*
The thing is that they aren't enough. You need only compare the dwindling voter numbers since 2016. You literally only need to do this. It's why drooling over some 1000 polled voters is laughable on the face of it. You need independents. He still has a decent amount of their support. But he got a large large swath of them in '16 which he didn't repeat in '20. This is a problem heading into '24.
You need support from women. I have to reiterate. Pretty healthy support among women in '16 especially all things considered. He also got a boost from multitudes of folks who would have voted Hillary staying home thinking it was in the bag. The shift regarding voting attitudes since '16 is seldom discussed. Even to this day.
Female support, as among Independents, eroded for '20. It bodes even worse for '24 due to overturning roe v wade and the ivf issue out of alabama. IVF made it real for a lot of people that the GOP is perfectly willing to step over the line. That it's not just some 'left wing talking point'. That shyt is a real threat. Missteps like that are better than any campaign ad your best staffer can pull together.
And now the House wants to get rid of Johnson as speaker. If maga wants him gone they'll get rid of him. Optics be damned. Imaging putting anything in people's heads that you want your Speaker removed 7 months before a major national election. Especially consideration they have a nonexistent track record and failed to impeach Biden.
The GOP in general was so much stronger in '16 as well. Now? They are splintered...careening towards broke as their funds are redirected to legal fees....and they lack real leadership. They are not fooling anybody.
I don't think people realize just how much Trump had going for him in '16. How much was against him in '20. And how much has turned for the worst in the past few months alone as the cases heat up and the RNC has been turned into a cash grab.
Like...we know he has sizable support out here. So you folks that absolutely obsess over this fact(@the cac mamba and @FAH1223 are 2 big examples) aren't pointing out anything major. He is the Great White Hope. A supposedly white male conservative beacon of light in the darkening wilderness of America. *snicker*
The thing is that they aren't enough. You need only compare the dwindling voter numbers since 2016. You literally only need to do this. It's why drooling over some 1000 polled voters is laughable on the face of it. You need independents. He still has a decent amount of their support. But he got a large large swath of them in '16 which he didn't repeat in '20. This is a problem heading into '24.
You need support from women. I have to reiterate. Pretty healthy support among women in '16 especially all things considered. He also got a boost from multitudes of folks who would have voted Hillary staying home thinking it was in the bag. The shift regarding voting attitudes since '16 is seldom discussed. Even to this day.
Female support, as among Independents, eroded for '20. It bodes even worse for '24 due to overturning roe v wade and the ivf issue out of alabama. IVF made it real for a lot of people that the GOP is perfectly willing to step over the line. That it's not just some 'left wing talking point'. That shyt is a real threat. Missteps like that are better than any campaign ad your best staffer can pull together.
And now the House wants to get rid of Johnson as speaker. If maga wants him gone they'll get rid of him. Optics be damned. Imaging putting anything in people's heads that you want your Speaker removed 7 months before a major national election. Especially consideration they have a nonexistent track record and failed to impeach Biden.
The GOP in general was so much stronger in '16 as well. Now? They are splintered...careening towards broke as their funds are redirected to legal fees....and they lack real leadership. They are not fooling anybody.
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