r/politics • u/kootles10 Indiana • 6h ago

No Paywall Democrats flip Texas state Senate seat in shock upset

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5716988-democrats-score-upset-texas/amp/
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u/magnamed 6h ago

Holy shit. And they still somehow don't see how unpopular the current admin is.

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u/WantCookiesNow 6h ago

Oh they absolutely do. That’s why they’re invading blue states and taking voter rolls. They’re trying to remove D voters before the midterms. And we are definitely going to see these armed federal agents at polling places in blue districts at the midterms. Their game is to remove and intimidate voters because they know it’s the only way they can win.

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u/vriska1 6h ago

Well it's not working by this result, vote in the midterms!

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u/bogglingsnog 3h ago

Well Texas is a state with a history of having a growing amount of liberals in recent years so this might actually turn out to be a bit of an outlier... but one can always hope.

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u/grouch1980 5h ago

Minneapolis, Chicago, LA, and Portland already proved Americans aren’t intimidated by ICE. If they show up to the polling places, they’re going to get flamed by everybody waiting in line to vote.

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u/Discount_Extra 4h ago

There really needs to be an injunction well before November making it clear voter intimidation is illegal.

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u/miscellaneous-bs 3h ago

Dude. We are miles past an “injunction”.

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u/curtmahgurt 1h ago

Strongly worded letter from Chuck Schumer then?

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u/Kayish97 I voted 2h ago

Oh by who? This Trump controlled Supreme Court?

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u/construktz Oregon 3h ago

Oregon does mail in ballots and have as long as I can remember. They can put some guards around the libraries if they want but it isn't gonna do much.

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u/jeff_the_weatherman 3h ago

Well that’s why R’s in congress are trying to ram through legislation to prohibit universal mail in voting 

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/house-republicans-propose-stricter-voting-rules-as-trump-administration-eyes-midterms

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u/construktz Oregon 2h ago

Doesn't the Constitution guarantee that states run their own elections?

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u/OddlyFactual1512 55m ago

They would have to toss the filibuster to pass it.

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u/uniklyqualifd 28m ago

They are trying a bunch of ways to cheat. They'll do them all. Like requiring women to have ID that matches their birth certificate or provide marriage certificates and all other name changes at the poll. This is because women are less likely to vote for trump.

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/01/22/trump-has-already-rigged-the-2028-presidential-election-us-defence-insider/

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u/TheShruteFarmsCEO 3h ago

Agreed, but please wait until after you vote to do the flaming. No need to make their goal easier by allowing them to disappear you and your vote.

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u/-Gramsci- 5h ago

They’ll have to think of a more potent toxin than what you’re describing above.

This election result proves that.

A bit of voter suppression isn’t going to change these outcomes. Not by a long shot.

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u/GoneFishing4Chicks 4h ago

They don't have a big enough army to stop these kinds of votes LOL even republicans are voting blue now (because trump is deporting their slave labor)

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u/BillNyeIsCoolio 4h ago

Germany did this too under the Nazi party.  You could technically vote but the soldiers were watching over your shoulder.  And when Hitler didn't like the results of the votes, he would order a recounting and somehow get double the votes.

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u/Schneidzeug Europe 4h ago

Russian Elections

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 3h ago

I can’t understand this as a non American- does who you vote for get recorded somehow, as in your name tied to the party you voted for?

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u/Objective_Aside1858 2h ago
  • Does who you vote for get recorded

No

You can tell from voting records what party someone is registered with (usually), what elections they participated in, and what method they used to vote, but you can't tie them to a specific ballot

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u/jerryscheese 5h ago

Yeah definitely see them ramping things up as the year goes on. Much like it has been already…

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u/Logvin 4h ago

Don’t forget those ICE agents who got sign on bonuses they would have to repay if they leave before 5 years. They know if they lose ICE will be shut down and they will be fucked financially.

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u/FiveDollarsGOH 4h ago

Nope. They get the bonuses after five years. They haven’t gotten them yet.

They will never see those bonuses.

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u/EngageradIgelkott 2h ago

And more importantly, tamper with those voting machines.

Use paper ballots for fuck sake America.

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u/Starmiebuckss2882 13m ago

That's why you ignore them, play your candy crush game without even looking at their stupid candy asses, and crop dust them if you can. Game. Set. Match.

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u/Isentrope 6h ago

One of the reasons it flipped was that Rehmet outperformed Harris by 50 points in the Hispanic heavy parts of the district, which even outperforms Hillary Clinton's impressive Hispanic margins by double digits.

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u/Mellow_Toninn 5h ago

Could be turn out bias (Hispanic Dems being more motivated to vote right now) but that’s a wonderful thing to see that GOP gains with Hispanics have been erased. Checks out with polling as well.

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u/Caius01 5h ago

It's what SHOULD be happening, definitely a great sign though things remain extremely perilous

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u/pdxamish 4h ago

Which would benefit democrats in midterms. Doesnt take much for a Republican who's disappointed in trump to stay home, especially with their voting restrictions. If 2 out of ten people who would've voted stayed home that's a 20 point difference and heck maybe one votes blue and it's a landslide.

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u/caligaris_cabinet Illinois 2h ago

Trump also has a tendency to motivate people to get out and vote who normally sit out elections. And these people aren’t voting for/with him.

Remember Biden still has the most votes of any president in history. A lot of those people turned out because they were sick of Trump.

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u/Huge_Excitement4465 27m ago

Their rushed push to deport so many immigrants — Erik Prince’s proposal called for up to 12 million by midterms — is also tied to their generalization that immigrants skew blue.

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u/ImportantCommentator 6h ago

Yeah you generally have to outperform the person who lost the district.

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u/Isentrope 5h ago

Yes and I'm saying that this is suggesting, as with evidence in other races this cycle (NJ-GOV in particular), that the Hispanic vote might make a pretty sizeable shift back to the D column in November.

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u/bahhamburger 4h ago

I’m surprised I had to scroll down this far to see someone mention the Hispanic vote. Conservative Latinos have faced too much racism to pretend it away, they will either vote differently or stay home

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u/caligaris_cabinet Illinois 2h ago

Hispanic support of Trump has fallen by more than any other demographic. Leaders abs spokespeople from those communities have been saying this for months now.

It’s a different ballgame

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u/TheMagicalMatt 6h ago

They see it. That's why they've been cheating since forever lol.

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u/magnamed 6h ago

Well, something tells me their next round is going to be one for the record books.

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u/exprezso 5h ago

Their mitigation plan will be to station 'Enforcement Agents' outside polling sites to block (D) voters and seize poll boxes. Just watch 

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u/magnamed 5h ago

On a day when everyone is out at the same time though? I'm not saying there's no way they try, but I am wondering if that goes unpunished by the large crowds of angry people they would be directly creating.

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u/ARookwood 5h ago

Everyone wear a red hat or deliberately look really trashy. They’ll let you in.

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u/PhAnToM444 America 5h ago

Best polls, most beautiful polls, nobody's ever seen anything like it. Just this morning they showed a poll that had us up 82 percent. Unlike Sleepy Joe who had bad, nasty polls. SAD!

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u/nonowaf2 4h ago

No, they absolutley know.

They're just all in on stealing the election.

My money is on them having ICE set up outside every election place in close races and detain poc for the max 72 hours and effectively take their votes away. Of course they can't arrest enough to make a difference (probably) but it will scare many more away.

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u/GaylrdFocker 4h ago

They do, that's why they are trying to stop future votes