2020 State Legislature Results -Post Here

[NewYorkExpress]

North Dakota House candidate who died of COVID-19 wins his race.

A North Dakota state legislative candidate died from COVID-19 in October — one month before Election Day. David Andahl, a Republican running for the state's House of Representatives won his race on Tuesday. Now, there is a dispute over what to do with his empty seat.


Andahl, 55, had been hospitalized and died after being sick for about four days, according to his mother Pat Andahl, who told The Bismarck Tribune in October.

[支持核绿派 (Greens4Nuclear)]

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-05/alex-lee-california-assembly-youngest-legislator-election

This guy won the CA State Assembly District 25 race in the SF Bay Area.

This Gen Z gig worker ran for office. Now he’s California’s youngest legislator

Alex Lee, a Democrat from San Jose, became the youngest state lawmaker to be elected in 80 years. The 25-year-old is also the first California legislator to have come out as bisexual.

Great, another member of my generation and community to make us look stupid. Good for him, hopefully he has a brain.

I’m the same age as him and I very much consider myself a tail-end Millennial.

If if’s any consolation, it looks like Republican Janet Nguyen is defeating Democrat Diedre Nguyen in Orange County’s Assembly District 72. I would’ve liked to see more Dem Viet representation considering how left-leaning 2nd gens and recent Vietnamese immigrants are relative to Boomer refugees.

[ChiefFireWaterMike]

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-05/alex-lee-california-assembly-youngest-legislator-election

This guy won the CA State Assembly District 25 race in the SF Bay Area.

This Gen Z gig worker ran for office. Now he’s California’s youngest legislator

Alex Lee, a Democrat from San Jose, became the youngest state lawmaker to be elected in 80 years. The 25-year-old is also the first California legislator to have come out as bisexual.

Great, another member of my generation and community to make us look stupid. Good for him, hopefully he has a brain.

I’m the same age as him and I very much consider myself a tail-end Millennial.

If if’s any consolation, it looks like Republican Janet Nguyen is defeating Democrat Diedre Nguyen in Orange County’s Assembly District 72. I would’ve liked to see more Dem Viet representation considering how left-leaning 2nd gens and recent Vietnamese immigrants are relative to Boomer refugees.

I would rather Ling Ling Chang survive, the CAGOP continues to die, not with a bang, but with a whimper, we'll lose seats in 2022.

[Frodo]

It looks like Arizona and Georgia are also shaping up to be disappointments.

It has been a dismal election all around for Democrats except for winning the White House. 

[Storr]

In the meantime, Republicans successfully fended off Democratic efforts in Florida, North Carolina, and Texas.  I am not going to pretend that it doesn't hurt.  

Disappointing, but I'm relieved Republicans were held from regaining veto proof majorities (had them from 2013-2019) in NC . Thank goodness for Roy Cooper.

[lfromnj]

https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1324599938542698497

lol

[Yellowhammer]

https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1324599938542698497

lol

Can't wait to see these jeenyus's strategies at work in 2022

[GALeftist]

https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1324599938542698497

lol

Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesus H. Christ.

I wonder how much good it would do for Biden or Kamala to get up and explain why the state legislature in North Carolina is relevant to Democrats in California. I suspect that the answer is "a lot."

But yeah, we lit soooo much money on fire this cycle between these Senate flops and trying to compete in Florida, Texas, Ohio and the like on the presidential level.

[Frodo]

So it looks like Minnesota's legislature is going to be even more divided than it is already, with Democrats holding only a slight majority in the House, and Republicans only barely hanging on in the Senate:

Minnesota Legislature will remain divided
Democrats kept the House and Republicans kept Senate in Tuesday's election, which translates to two more years of tense partisan debate over Minnesota's future.

Possible recounts and mail-in ballots notwithstanding, it appears the GOP picked up six seats in the House. Democrats, who held a 75 to 59 majority the past two years will have only a 69 to 65 majority in the 2021-2022 cycle.

(...) In the Senate, Republicans held a 35 to 32 seat majority during the 2019-2020 session. At this point it appears that majority may shrink to a 34 to 33 split.

[Alcibiades]

Why have Democrats learnt nothing from 2010? It is so frustrating.

Anyway, now the focus needs to turn to preventing another Obama-era level loss downballot in 2022. True, there is not as far to fall for the Democrats as in 2010, but you can be sure that the GOP is spoiling for another downballot annihilation.

It is not hyperbolic to say that the 2010 state legislative elections were perhaps the most disastrous elections at any level in the party’s history, in terms of the long-term damage they did, and they were made so much worse because the Dems were caught asleep at the wheel. Like the 1994 House elections, it was inevitably the GOP who caught on to the fact that these races can be nationalised first. A repeat of 2010 must be avoided at all costs.

[Orwell]

So it looks like Minnesota's legislature is going to be even more divided than it is already, with Democrats holding only a slight majority in the House, and Republicans only barely hanging on in the Senate:

Minnesota Legislature will remain divided
Democrats kept the House and Republicans kept Senate in Tuesday's election, which translates to two more years of tense partisan debate over Minnesota's future.

Possible recounts and mail-in ballots notwithstanding, it appears the GOP picked up six seats in the House. Democrats, who held a 75 to 59 majority the past two years will have only a 69 to 65 majority in the 2021-2022 cycle.

(...) In the Senate, Republicans held a 35 to 32 seat majority during the 2019-2020 session. At this point it appears that majority may shrink to a 34 to 33 split.

One of those Senate Democrats who went down in defeat was Matt Little. He makes tiktoks... it is an acceptable loss.

[Frodo]

Early indications are that Democrats failed to win a supermajority in the New York Senate, and actually lost seats in the legislature as a whole:

GOP Gains Seats In New York State Legislature

State Senate Democrats needed to add two seats during Tuesday’s election to secure a “supermajority” in a chamber that was controlled by Republicans until 2018. A supermajority would have given Democrats two-thirds of the Senate’s seats, giving it the power to override vetoes from the governor’s office and giving senators more leverage.

Entering Tuesday’s election, Democrats held 106 seats in the state Assembly and 41 in the state Senate.

According to a summary of unofficial results in state Assembly and Senate races compiled Wednesday morning by the Associated Press, Republicans picked up five seats in the state Senate and nine seats in the state Assembly, leaving Democrats with a 96 members of the 150-seat Assembly and 36 members in the 60-seat Senate. Those results are far from final with thousands of absentee ballots still to be counted in counties throughout the state.

[Frodo]

It doesn't look much better in Pennsylvania:

Republicans poised to expand Pa. Senate control, keep House majority

[GALeftist]

Early indications are that Democrats failed to win a supermajority in the New York Senate, and actually lost seats in the legislature as a whole:

GOP Gains Seats In New York State Legislature

State Senate Democrats needed to add two seats during Tuesday’s election to secure a “supermajority” in a chamber that was controlled by Republicans until 2018. A supermajority would have given Democrats two-thirds of the Senate’s seats, giving it the power to override vetoes from the governor’s office and giving senators more leverage.

Entering Tuesday’s election, Democrats held 106 seats in the state Assembly and 41 in the state Senate.

According to a summary of unofficial results in state Assembly and Senate races compiled Wednesday morning by the Associated Press, Republicans picked up five seats in the state Senate and nine seats in the state Assembly, leaving Democrats with a 96 members of the 150-seat Assembly and 36 members in the 60-seat Senate. Those results are far from final with thousands of absentee ballots still to be counted in counties throughout the state.

Yikes. Praying for a miracle with the absentees, but this one really hurts.

[Mr.Phips]

Early indications are that Democrats failed to win a supermajority in the New York Senate, and actually lost seats in the legislature as a whole:

GOP Gains Seats In New York State Legislature

State Senate Democrats needed to add two seats during Tuesday’s election to secure a “supermajority” in a chamber that was controlled by Republicans until 2018. A supermajority would have given Democrats two-thirds of the Senate’s seats, giving it the power to override vetoes from the governor’s office and giving senators more leverage.

Entering Tuesday’s election, Democrats held 106 seats in the state Assembly and 41 in the state Senate.

According to a summary of unofficial results in state Assembly and Senate races compiled Wednesday morning by the Associated Press, Republicans picked up five seats in the state Senate and nine seats in the state Assembly, leaving Democrats with a 96 members of the 150-seat Assembly and 36 members in the 60-seat Senate. Those results are far from final with thousands of absentee ballots still to be counted in counties throughout the state.

The New York results are going to get much bluer with absentees. Biden is only up 55%-43% statewide now.  That will expand to at least 60%-38% and the results in the downballot races will follow accordingly.

[AncestralDemocrat.]

https://twitter.com/ChazNuttycombe/status/1325494301300764673?s=19

[lfromnj]

Clinton +6,
ouch.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

Clinton +6,
ouch.

Tbf that is with an incumbent party switcher but it's pretty bad.

[Chips]

You know, this election turned out exactly how I wanted it to. I wanted Biden to defeat Trump but I also didn't want Democrats to do so well in down-ballot races so that Biden couldn't do anything too out of the ordinary.

[lfromnj]

Ouch
 NC democrats lost a clean Wilmington state senate district to the left of the county which voted for Biden.

[smoltchanov]

Generally - Biden's win has some features of Pyrrhic victory: only "low hanging fruits" (Colorado and Arizona) in Senate, unexpected losses in House, and horrendous results on state legislative level, where gains were almost exclusively in blue-leaning seats, represented by solidly moderate Republicans like Cloutier and DelCollo in Delaware or Sarah Davis in Texas. And that's almost all, guys. Trump's career may be finished (and that's - good!), but Democrats have nothing to brag about else..

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

In South Carolina Democrats lost three senate seats (Including Vincent Shaheen) and two in the House (Funderburk and Mandy Powers Norrell). All in all a terrible night for us.

[ottermax]

Why did Republicans do so well in state legislatures? Financing? Are the Democrats really that bad at messaging? Curious to hear what you all think.

[lfromnj]

https://twitter.com/decunningham2/status/1325959085309763585

lol, dems got to redraw all the Mecklenburg and Wake districts during the redraw.

[smoltchanov]

Why did Republicans do so well in state legislatures? Financing? Are the Democrats really that bad at messaging? Curious to hear what you all think.

Surely - not financing, as Democratic candidates outraised Republican in many races, that were considered competitive (but, at least some - turned not..). Messaging is far more likely. Especially - concerning police and some other "hot button social" issues.  Not everyone (even among Democrats) subscribes under "bold progressive" platform. That was true on congressional level (NE-02 is the best example, but there are many other), that was even more true on many state legislative races. Plus - not every anti-Trump voter is anti-GOP in general..