Democrats have just flipped a deep-red Trump seat, in what should be a warning for every Republican come November.

Democrats have declared victory in a Pennsylvania state House seat that Republicans held for nearly 30 years.

In a special election for the state House’s 12th District seat, Democrat Brandon Dukes is leading over Republican Scott Timko by less than 100 votes, 8,434 to 8,346, with 99 percent of votes counted.

Dukes told the local Cranberry Eagle Tuesday night, “I’m ecstatic. I’m shocked.”

“I’m still processing this. We just flipped a Trump plus-18 seat, and we flipped a red seat that’s been red for almost 30 years. We made history,” Dukes said.

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
    111·
    3 days ago

    Tight margins. Really shit turnout. 65k people in this district. 43k voters in generals and only 17k for vacant special election.

    • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.worksOP
      21·
      3 days ago

      Hey, with the current dumpster fire we’ll take what we can get. At the very least it means that independents and Democrats are far more motivated than MAGA Republicans.