Democrats’ task gets harder heading into general elections this fall. Tennessee’s 9th District, which had been the state’s only blue seat, is now rated Solid Republican by the Cook Political Report and went for Trump by 21 points in 2024.
“Everyone that came out last night — that needs to double for November,” Knight said.
That district was dispersed into 3 other districts. I hope this story inspires black voters throughout the south, but for the the people in Memphis, they lost. The 9th district was Tennessee’s only blue district. I don’t think it is coming back any time soon.
So basically… disenfranchising minorities increases the vote? DISENFRANCHISE ALL THE MINORITIES!!! /s /s /s
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Also: https://archive.ph/3n2la - getting around the paywell
Magats can’t spell “disenfranchising minorities” no /s needed lol
The skeptic in me says Trump and his personal army will use the data from these primaries to focus their attention in November.
Just like how in 2020 he used the data to show that Democrats used mail-in voting much more than Republicans. So he promptly put in a postmaster general who started dismantling mail sorting machines to slow down the mail.
Skeptic in you can be skeptical, but the simple fact is that it doesn’t matter what happens, they will claim voter fraud no matter what. I no longer care about anything anyone does that “will cause them to respond X” because they will anyway. heh
Claiming voter fraud after the vote is much different than preventing voters from getting to the voting booth or casting their vote. That’s what I’m concerned about.
I do think that it will be tough to tackle all of the demos that are writing trump off. Not saying he’s not going to try and succeed in some places, but it appears based on primaries that he’s got to disenfranchise about everywhere, and that’s a lot more difficult.
