Special election wins fuel Democrats’ hopes ahead of 2024

[Hermit For Peace]

A string of special election and ballot measure victories is giving Democrats hope heading into 2024 as the party grapples with concerns over President Biden’s low approval ratings.

The party has clinched significant wins in races across the country over the past year, including with an abortion-related measure in Ohio and a New Hampshire state House race in a district former President Trump won by a slim margin in 2020.

“A lot of people — they see the national polling and they think that that bodes poorly for Democrats, but again, the biggest indicator of how things are gonna go are basically how elections have done in the past and the past few years,” Rahman said. “Democrats have won basically everything important.”

“I think it’s a reflection of the fact that Democrats have been delivering for the American people and quite frankly, there’s not a constituency in this country who has not benefited from the Democratic way of life when it comes to our priorities, our legislative agenda, up and down the ballot,” said Democratic strategist Antjuan Seawright. “These elections are a true reflection of that and at the end of the day, voters, in particular Black voters, demonstrate their trust when they cast their vote at the ballot box.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4242036-democrats-special-elections-wins-2024/

[Progressive Pessimist]

I think we'll get a better idea from the November elections.

But even then, it has become abundantly clear by now that Demicrats are now the high propensity voter party in most circumstances. It is possible that it's all negated by Republicans turning out for Trump in droves next year, but this was said about the 2022 midterms as well. Republicans did turn out better than they did during the summer special elections, but only to some extent. Otherwise, they were an indicator that the midterms were not going to be the largely expected GOP wave.

So, I'm open to this being the case for 2024, but I just don't want to get complacent either.

[PSOL]

Most Republicans are committed to vote for Trump, not in off year elections. I understand that Democratic partisans are energized enough to produce such victories based on poor conservative turnout, but extrapolating that to the country seems premature.

If Democrats do well in 2023, now that is a good indicator of trends to look for.

[Person Man]

Most Republicans are committed to vote for Trump, not in off year elections. I understand that Democratic partisans are energized enough to produce such victories based on poor conservative turnout, but extrapolating that to the country seems premature.

If Democrats do well in 2023, now that is a good indicator of trends to look for.

I think next month’s election will give us a good idea whose ideas are popular and how the election would go if it happened then.

[Hermit For Peace]

People have said that the Democrats need to broadcast their accomplishments. Well here are a few in this article. Based on the good news that the Dems have been busy, and that people are taking notice, and also based on the fact that the Republican party is imploding with a criminal at the helm, I don't see how the Democrats can lose. People don't want to vote for a criminal, none in their right mind.

Also, the abortion is still hot, and look what the Republican party wants to do with that issue. I think they are BIG losers. The majority of voters just aren't that dumb. We've already lived under Trump as President and it was chaos.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

It's the Rs like Redban, Hollywood, OSR that don't realize this, I haven't met any other users that thinks that there is gonna be blue wave otherwise when we Ds lost consecutive Edays back 2 back in 2010s, because Rs like McCarthy don't want to help Poor people they want power with their silly tax cuts which is old School

Hollywood came back briefly and said Trump was gonna win PA just because he saw the Wzi lol Biden has been leading PA with 5 specials Eday wins since Shapiro won

But, Trump thinks he is gonna win PA and we just flipped the state H

I mean Rs are the oil men look at Jerry Jones, Bush W, Cheney they negate climate change to keep getting oil.. I would never vote for an R it's was not blks that put Bush W in office we don't vote 3rd party for Nadar, that was the biggest mistake ever made Bush W instead of Gore, punditry keep saying not enough blks vote in the 80s 75 due to project living but 90 now