Democrat Emily Gregory narrowly won the special election for the district Tuesday night, The Associated Press projects. Trump carried the area in 2024.
Democrat Emily Gregory won a special election Tuesday for the Florida state House district that includes Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, flipping the seat from Republican control, The Associated Press projects.
Gregory beat Republican Jon Maples, whom Trump endorsed, in the race for a seat that has been vacant since August, when Mike Caruso resigned from the Legislature and was appointed Palm Beach County clerk.
Gregory had 51% of the vote to 49% for Maples with all precincts reporting.
Democrats have performed well in special elections during Trump’s second term, with the party pointing to those results as a sign of strength ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Florida’s 87th District is the 10th GOP-held state legislative seat Democrats have flipped around the country since Trump took office again last year. Republicans have not flipped any Democratic state legislative seats during that time.
God I hope this is a sign for the midterms.
It’s one sign, but there have been many others. Something like 28 MAGA seats have flipped to Democrats in special elections, while no Democrat seats have flipped. MAGA can’t buy a win.
Yesterday, the Dems flipped Trump’s own district. Some are saying it was indies, not MAGAs, or the MAGAs didn’t vote, or nobody votes in these special elections, yadda-yadda, but the bottom line is:
Trump’s own home district flipped from MAGA to Democrat, in a decisive win in which his own wealthy neighbors voted AGAINST him. That’s YUGE.
Whether it’s by an inch or by a mile, flipping is flipping.
I don’t see any republican ever voting democrat, most of them seem too far gone into the echo chambers, which just keep growing and growing as they consolidate the media.
The only thing that may still break that path is the Iran war jacking gas prices so high that a substantial number of MAGAs abstain out of rage, otherwise goodbye America.
I’m wondering if poly market has odds for the US breaking up like the USSR in the next decade
Who cares what a bunch of stupid addicts think?
Just keep in mind, Trump legitimately won 2024 and Biden legitimately won 2020. My parents are die hard republicans and will never vote for a democrat. They have not voted for president in the last 3 elections. That’s probably the best we can hope for. Especially in a midterm.
Political parties across the world have worked very hard to ensure that people consider them to be an intrinsic part of their identity, rather than a choice.
lol
I just mailed my overseas vote for my state’s primary. Super red and heavily gerymandered, but not much else I can do. We at least had one progressive on the dem ballot whose site (at least until recently) said “Fuck Ice” so that’s hopeful.
Harris won this
districtcounty by .7% in the presidential election. This candidate won by a little more, but special elections / off year elections, the party out of power usually gets a little bump.Looks like this candidate won by 2.3%. So good sign, but you’d think that wars ICE murders would be worth more than 1.6%
Edit: county, not district.
Harris didn’t win this state house district she won Palm Beach County.
Look at the map, This Water front owning class isn’t going to be bothered either way. They have personal cell number to get their undocumented hires back or with just pay a little extra until MAGA is ousted.
Good point. District 87 is smaller.
That said, the former GOP incumbent won by less than 40 votes. It’s a very purple district.
Everything was redistricted in 2022 to attempt to keep a Republican majority. Not sure what District & election was that close, I’m not seeing it. Even if its purple there was an attmpt to gerrymander and this election broke it.
District 88 is Dem and it does appear they stole from that and attempted to route Palm Beach in to dilute it. It might be even more interesting of a win than I thought.
Not why the article said Trump won by 11% in 2024. Looks like you’re right though.
Let’s see: There’s them saying ICE will be at polling stations, there’s the SAVE act, there’s the war in Iran which Trump believes can stop elections, there’s always the classic Insurrection Act and Martial Law, there’s them claiming 2020 was stolen and therefore federalizing the election process. And then the redistricting, ending Mail In Voting, gerrymandering, threats, Dominion voting machines now being owned by a MAGA former election official.
All of that and people still think we’re having free elections?
I agree there is a lot to be worried about. But at the least it’s a good sign that the voters are turning out against Trump in a major way.
I’m getting tired of hearing this doomer sentiment. What’s your ultimate goal? Are you trying to convince people that it’s a lost cause to vote so you can tell us, “I told you so!” after the fact?
Apologies if I sound like I’m coming off doomer. I’m actually really not, I actually have a lot of hope and faith in the people, even if it seems hopeless right now. I think we get through this in community, mutual aid, resistance, and withholding our participation from the system.
I don’t think voting is going to change anything, not really… I still vote because I think it’s dumb not to, but I don’t expect to undo the master’s system with the master’s tools.
If you think pulling the lever to change this very system is not going to work then you are de facto doomering.
If you’re talking about ‘undoing the system’ and not doing anything about it, then you’re just being edgy.
Nope! That’s why we need everyone who is able armed and doing their duty protecting the polls from, uh, stormy weather
Citizens militia y’all
Based AF, I love defending myself from stormy weather. You know I got that semiauto umbrella on me, and several more for extra rainy days.
No, it’s obvious that the republicans are going to try to manipulate the outcome in their favor.
However, if the swing against them is large enough they won’t be able to push the needle far enough back their way.
I think if the push against them is too strong, they’ll just go full dictator and enact autocracy. I mean we’re quickly marching there anyways but they have to go through some other steps before they just rid of Congress and the SC, though they might keep vestiges as an appeasement for the dumbest of the dumb.
I think we all know where this is going. And I want everrone who reads this to know, I am not an accelerationist and I am not giddy about this. But I don’t think there’s a peaceful way out of this, and that means a lot of people are going to die, like a lot, probably a lot of my loved ones and community, as well as potentially me. I’m not planning on sitting this one out on the sidelines. It’s either me and everyone I love in concentration camps/dead without a fight, or going down fighting and striving for a better world.
I just really don’t see many other options besides decades of resistance and guerilla warfare, which we don’t have the time for. In a few decades Earth will be so much worse due to an accelerated climate crisis. And this regime has shown itself to be part of a global threat, installing far right governments, or converting them alongside Israel and Russia. We literally do not have the commodity to not fight back with every fiber of being, when that time comes.
If climate change is already looking bad, it won’t just be the US pumping out full throttle carbon emissions, it will be most of the world. And yes, what we’ve done so far is laughable and pitiful, but imagine a world where green energy is banned for oil profits, and governments haven’t just stopped caring a little bit, but are actively determined to burn as much oil and coal as possible.
The population isn’t ready for armed resistance. I doubt they ever will be.