"Those years are about to be over. What are we doing to deliver on the reason why we gave you all the majority," said strategist Michael Lofti.
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Tennessee special election shows the power of partisan gerrymandering as Trump pushes for more of it
As a leader of the College Democrats at Vanderbilt University, Luci Wingo knew the odds of a Democrat winning one of Nashville's three U.S. House seats weren't great. Yet her hope grew as the party mounted an aggressive campaign for its candidate,
Trump confidently carried Iowa Senate District 35 by about 21 points in 2024. In January, Democrat Mike Zimmer flipped the seat, winning by roughly 4 points over Republican Katie Whittington. The result was about a 25-point overperformance by Democrats compared with Trump’s margin a year earlier.
Republican Matt Van Epps is up against a progressive Democratic state Rep. Aftyn Behn for the seat vacated by former GOP Rep. Mark Green. Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson have both been aggressively trying to turn out support for Epps and avoid a disastrous upset for the GOP.
President Donald Trump has reacted after Republican Matt Van Epps defeated state Rep. Aftyn Behn, the Democrat, in the reliably conservative 7th U.S. House Congressional District. With 83 percent of the vote counted, Van Epps held a 51.5 percent to 47.5 percent lead, separated by just over 6,000 votes. CNN called the race at 9:30 p.m. ET.
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Trump-backed Republican keeps crucial congressional seat in GOP hands with special election victory
Republican Matt Van Epps defeats Democrat Aftyn Behn in Tennessee's 7th district special election, keeping GOP seat in red district Trump won by 22 points.
Trump claims efforts in Honduras to "change the results" of an election in which he's backed the party of an ex-president convicted of trafficking cocaine to the U.S.
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