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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed May 14, 2025, 07:36 PM 12 hrs ago

The Trump Effect Is Here: Democrats Sweep to Victory in Historic Upset

The Donald Trump effect struck in Nebraska Tuesday night as Democrats snatched another public office away from Republicans by tying them to the president’s disastrous agenda.

The people of Omaha elected John Ewing Jr. to be the city’s first Black mayor, in a surprising defeat for Jean Stothert, the city’s three-term Republican mayor who outraised Ewing by nearly double, according to The Washington Post.

Although the seat itself is nonpartisan, Ewing’s campaign was able to channel the voters’ negative feelings about Trump’s wild first few months in office into a victory over his opponent, who had supported the president’s run in 2024.

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Stothert got in trouble for using the same anti-trans Republican playbook that Trump employed in his campaign. One controversial mailer distributed by a PAC on behalf of her campaign claimed that “Ewing stands with radicals who want to allow boys in girls’ sports.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-effect-democrats-sweep-victory-150114185.html

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The Trump Effect Is Here: Democrats Sweep to Victory in Historic Upset (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 12 hrs ago OP
Slothurt -- sounds like Dump's ideal candidate Blue Owl 12 hrs ago #1
Things seem to be looking up as Dems are winning special elections all over. brush 12 hrs ago #2

brush

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2. Things seem to be looking up as Dems are winning special elections all over.
Wed May 14, 2025, 07:46 PM
12 hrs ago

Many voters are turned off by the tariff taxes and open corruption of tump 2.0. We should do ok in the mid-terms as the party out of power usually gains multiple House seats, which should give us the Majority.

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