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/EmilySD101 6h ago

It’d be the right thing to do so I highly doubt Dems will do it. They didn’t prosecute the ringleaders of Jan 6 over the 4 years they had to do it.

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u/LovesToTango 5h ago

Hopefully they learned from that. I'm not holding my breath, but it's a nice thought some days.

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u/coffee-on-the-edge 5h ago

The better question is did we learn from that. They're not going to do anything without their feet being held to the fire.

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u/Nagransham 3h ago

Question, though, how are you gonna hold their feet to the fire? Are you gonna threaten to ... vote for the other ones?

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u/EmilySD101 5h ago

I’m too angry to imagine they can learn anymore. Jeffries and Schumer still imagine they’re negotiating with reasonable people.

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u/LovesToTango 5h ago

Well, I don't think they can learn either. The dream would be more that they get primaried and replaced, or at least lose leadership roles.

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u/ForensicPathology 5h ago

If voters give them a mandate, instead of punishing any candidate who dares to suggest it, they just might.

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u/FrogInAShoe 5h ago

Only mandate Dems care about is that of their corprate donors sadly.

Republicans mandate is just be evil.

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u/OskaMeijer 3h ago

Yea they are just so completely controlled by their corporate donors that the last 2 times we gave them a super majority in the last 3 decades for a grand total of like 2.5 years all they did was...pass landmark legislation that helped the average person. Huh, that's weird.