State Legislature Special Election Megathread v3

[ReallySuper]

everyones paying attention to a different election in ky rn, but theres a special house election in south lexington. it should be an easy dem hold, esp. with beshears coattail effect. its more notable bc of the minor controversy in the democratic nomination--basically, a moderate/establishment member of the party committee that selected the nominee, adrielle camuel, was chosen by her colleagues on the committee to be the nominee, over emma curtis (a young trans activist who was pretty visible during the protests against sb150 this spring and had raised $10,000 and gotten lots of endorsements in just one month of her campaign). even though this process was obviously completely unfair, emma curtis conceded the primary and endorsed camuel... until the latter said in a tv interview that she got into the race in order to combat the "extremes on both sides" of the debate over lgbtq+ rights. after pushback, she 'clarified' her statement by saying she was not talking about sb150 but about democrats who attack those in their own party and therefore help the gop (lmao). then emma curtis rescinded her endorsement in september.

this wont really affect the result but like its a total fail on the part of camuel and the party

[ReallySuper]

Dem won the KY race, something like 57.5-42.5. Nowhere near the blowout expected given the governor race, closer to the national numbers. Perhaps the issue illustrated above left some tarnish.

Dems obviously win the Rhode island seat in a landside, and are the declared winners in the Maine one.

by my calculation, beshear outpolled the dem house candidate by 10.5 points in her district (68.8% to 58.3%) and won every precinct in it but one (where he tied cameron exactly). one of the biggest gaps was in camuel's worst precinct, where she got just 34% of the vote but beshear won it with 51.5%