Summary
Democrat James Malone won a special election for Pennsylvania’s 36th state Senate district, flipping a seat previously held by Republicans in a district Trump won by 15 points.
Malone narrowly defeated Republican Josh Parsons by less than 500 votes, running on opposition to Elon Musk’s influence in the Trump administration.
Governor Josh Shapiro praised the victory as a rejection of extremism.
The win reduces the GOP majority in the state Senate to 27-23 and signals potential Democratic competitiveness in upcoming elections.
Man you people are a bunch of fucking snowflakes after all aren’t you?
Throw a hissy fit because the only viable candidate that wasn’t going to quite literally destroy our democracy didn’t turn out perfect… “Wah she tried to appeal to people I don’t like because they’re a much larger base and they actually fucking vote.” Grow up. This shit is so embarrassing for actual adults on the left (though I can’t wait to hear why I don’t pass your purity test).
Y’all have a lot to learn about what it means to have a vote in a two party, first past the post system. Many of us hoped the last election would have been enough, but apparently not.
If you haven’t grasped it yet, I’m not sure you’re capable of understanding. You even said yourself that she, “tried to appeal to” those people, which implies that you understand that it was 100% a political move to try to get votes.
“You people”?
Who are you talking about? Harris destroyed her own campaign by squandering all the momentum gained from dropping Biden off the ticket.
She was never a viable candidate because she chose to fight right-wing populism with mealy-mouthed bipartisanship.
I genuinely do not understand what your point is. It sounds like you’ve got your understanding of electoral politics backwards, the onus is on political parties to earn our votes and parties that can’t convince people to vote for them lose elections. Individual choice doesn’t matter, what matters is who has the best propaganda.
Yes you people. Fuck off with the faux outrage.
She’s a politician that did a stupid politician thing. It’s so fucking stupid to give a single shit about it. She tried to appeal to “old school” conservatives who she thought may have been lucid enough to see the danger Trump posed to us all.
Clearly it failed. But it’s a really fucking stupid reason to not vote for her. Just completely ignorant of the political reality we were in.
I’m not outraged, I’m confused. Who is “you people” supposed to be referring to?
And yet, here you are getting mad because people didn’t give enough of a shit about it.
Says the guy trying to blame the voters in a country that science says is not and has never been a democracy.