BaileyPark31
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Democrats win another special election
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Note... abortion and Marijuana were big subjects.
SupaDupaFresh
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Gee dumbass, I don't know. Maybe I dont spend my day thinking about sensationalist right wing crap, nor do I determine my life and politics around it. How about you ask the folks in this district your irrelevant dailywire.com trivia cus obviously they don't care.
Wh do you think Republicans are smarter than Democrats at elections when they keep losing them?
SupaDupaFresh
Superstar
i dont know about that
i see trump fukking it up big time for republicans in '24, but we better hope kamala doesnt have to step in for biden before '28. i just dont see that ending well
like, there would be nothing abnormal about biden just dying in 2027. and that's our fukkin nominee
Whatever idiotic political take you get from this clown, assume the opposite is true.
the cac mamba
Banned
86 percent of the country thinks biden is too old for a second term. because he is
kamala is not a good general election candidate
neither of those are controversial takes, treh
Democrats retain majority in the Pennsylvania House with a 102-100 partisan divide
Democrats have retained their slim majority in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
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Democrats retain majority in the Pennsylvania House with a 102-100 partisan divide
This Jan. 2024 combination photo shows nominees for a Bucks County special election to fill a vacant Pennsylvania state House seat, Republican Candace Cabanas, left, and Democrat Jim Prokopiak in Fairless Hills, Pa., (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
BY BROOKE SCHULTZ
Updated 8:29 PM EST, February 13, 2024
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democrats retained their slim majority in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Tuesday after voters elected a former school board member to represent them in a Philadelphia suburb that has been trending more to the left.
Jim Prokopiak’s election to the Bucks County seat will give Democrats a 102-100 majority in the House, which they have sought to defend in four special elections in the past year. A Republican lawmaker’s resignation last week shifted the power back to Democrats, and Prokopiak’s win kept it in place.
He defeated Republican challenger Candace Cabanas and will replace former state Rep. John Galloway, who resigned to serve as a magisterial judge. Cabanas has said previously she plans to run again during the general election.
“What I heard from voters is that Bucks County residents need help supporting their families, want control over their own bodies, and ensure they have the ability to chart their own paths in life,” Prokopiak said in a statement. “I’m committed to taking my conversations with voters to Harrisburg and making their dreams a reality.”
While campaigning, Prokopiak, 49, said his goals as a lawmaker aligned with the party’s larger ambitions since they retook the chamber — more money for K-12 education, preserving access to abortions and a higher minimum wage.
“No one can afford to live on the federal minimum wage in this area,” he said. “If we’re going to be talking about good-paying jobs and creating life-sustaining jobs, the first thing we have to do is raise the minimum wage because it’s clear that is not sustaining anybody.”
Democrats have kept all six seats that have gone up for special elections in the past year, in mostly reliably Democratic districts. Prokopiak will represent a seat that has favorably elected Democrats in past election cycles.
Galloway’s seat has trended Democratic, and Republicans have slowly been losing their grip on the county as a whole.
The race drew national attention from the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, which spent $50,000 to protect the party’s majority in the chamber.
It was a first step for the committee, which has said it is planning to spend at least $60 million on statehouse races nationally this cycle, the group’s largest-ever budget. It will feature special emphasis on erasing GOP majorities in Arizona and New Hampshire and in the Pennsylvania Senate while holding small Democratic majorities claimed in 2022 in Minnesota and Michigan.
“This victory is a promising sign for Democrats up and down the ballot this year – it’s clear that momentum is on our side,” Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee President Heather Williams said in a statement, adding that their focus will be on defending the House majority and flipping the state Senate.
Democrats in Pennsylvania have used their newfound power this year to advance a number of the caucus’ priorities, and they have a philosophical ally in the governor’s office with Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro. The Legislature remains politically divided with a firm Republican majority in the Senate.
“Over the last year I think, since the Democrats have been in the majority, they’ve pushed legislation that has helped the middle class,” Prokopiak said previously. “I want to do that.”
BROOKE SCHULTZ
Schultz is a reporter for The Associated Press based in Pennsylvania. She is a Report for America corps member.
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LeVraiPapi
Redemption is Coming
She’s an IDF soldier ?
Jean toomer
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This cannot be understated.
Weird. Posters keep saying the Dems are dead as a party yet they keep winning elections.
Those posters are just maga fascists, possibly russian state bots.
It's pretty wild how you see Democrats pulling out Clinton's old playbook and trying to out-Republican Republicans. This guy was all in Israel sucking them off and in step with Republicans on the border. This type of strategy only hurts Dems in the long run and pushes Republicans farther to the right. All this for a slight gain in the house which you can't pass anything right now anyway and he will probably have to run again in November.
SupaDupaFresh
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Coli dummies got confident in 2016. One lousy, Russian government-manipulated election had them aligning themselves politically with conservative cacs like they've always wanted, and thought that everyone now shares their close minded ignorance ans grade school level maturity about sexuality.
Are you meaning to tell me transgenered people, cancel culture, and wokeness werent the greatest thing on peoples mind? You mean voters care more about their own rights and freedoms than a bunch of fanaticism over a group people most of us do not encounter on even a yearly basis?
But once again @the cac mamba told me Republicans are such geniuses, playing Democrats for fools by relying on sensationalized bullshyt about immigrants and transgendered people. But then they keep losing. Why are coli niccas always so loud and wrong?
Your obsession with Jews has you over here typing nonsense. It may be one of the largest Jewish districts, but they are just another minority in the district.
Second, it is Suozzi's old seat. His seat for 6 years, which belonged to another Democrat for 16 years. He gave it up to focus on running for governor, otherwise none of this would be happening.