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He's just happy he can finally say that to someone

Genuinely, the only time Trump seems to have any spirit in him anymore is when he's talking about his ballroom. That's the only thing he cares about. He's obsessed with building s*** to establish a legacy for himself.

I hope we tear it all down before he dies.

Watching Harris Dems desperately trying to paint Al-Sayed’s win as an underperformance is embarrassing. Using it as proof of what they need to do in 2028 is even more embarrassing.

They’ve learned nothing from 2024.

ballrooms and mens butts

trump technically gayer than baz luhrmann it means

Link? Harris endorsed him earlier

I mean her supporters. Centrist Dems in general. It’s all over Twitter. Lambasting him for “only winning by 7” in a seat that was previously held by a Democrat when people in other states flipped by ~20 points.

On paper it sort of makes sense but when you factor in that Al-Sayed is a Muslim, was attacked by every major conservative talking head in the lead up to the election, faced flat out racist ads against him (many of which worked) and had his campaign ratfucked two days before Election Day, I kind of think it’s making the opposite point to the one they’re trying to make. The fact that he can have all of that held against him and still win pretty comfortably suggests that the party shouldn’t be afraid to lean more left, especially in this climate.

Seems a much better strategy than Kamala “I’m basically going to become a Republican in the final two weeks of my campaign” Harris.

DNC bots or DINO’s no other explanation for those losers still not accepting the future of the party is with progressives

El-Sayed watch game nice too, Grand Seiko enthusiast real one

Same here on both counts, but I would still be scared s***less

The fact that they’re cheering it on is ridiculous

But unfortunately they’re not wrong — AES, Jackson, and Flanagan all underperformed, given that the popular vote will likely be between 12-13. Progressives have work to do.

Hopefully when they get into the Senate they can show people the benefits that progressive lawmakers can bring

Tons of Trump legislation goes into effect in January so they will try to blame all these newly elected officials for the s***storm so we gotta never stop repeating it’s all Trump legislation being f***ed

100%

Crying

I’m sorry but taking everything into consideration, I just don’t believe that they underperformed.

Jackson defeated a stalwart who has smoked her Democratic competition in the past, Flanagan outperformed her projections by 5 points (in a state that has had a successful Democratic corruption label attached to it for the past two years) and I already spoke about AES.

People keep bringing up Talarico being able to flip Texas by 12 points, but at the end of the day Talarico is a straight Christian white man. It’s not like any of that is objectionable in Texas. He flipped a state that, even if people didn’t think it would ever actually happen, has had momentum and hope in recent past elections. He also did it against a historically bad opponent with mountains of baggage. I did not see a single conservative have a high opinion of Paxton going into the election. And he wasn’t the only bad candidate the Republicans put forth.

Like yeah, on paper it seems like DSA/more left leaning candidates underperformed in comparison to the rest of the wave, but I think there is far too much context to look at it all so plainly.

AES absolutely did not underperform lol

First Muslim senator in the middle of one of the most intense bouts of Islamophobia in American history

Still won by 7

I know I've been a doomer about my area but I'm happy to read this morning that my red as f*** county actually voted blue these midterms. So it wasn't particularly MY s***hole's fault. i'm shocked

Cool article

Mississippi and Texas went blue before California taxed billionaires smfh

Now that those damn libtards has voted in one singular progressive guy who happens to be Muslim in the senate, we are only few days away from jihadist terror and force us transitioning into women wearing burqas. They want to kill us.