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So Much Winning! Democrats Sweep the Nation – Win Vast Majority of Races on First Election Day of Trump Era

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‘We’re Going to Win So Much, You’re Going to Be So Sick and Tired of Winning’ Trump Said in 2016

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That was candidate Donald Trump. He was wrong.

Tuesday night Democrats swept the nation. It’s hard to find races where Republicans beat Democrats.

The real story is not just that voters repudiated Donald Trump, the real story is that voters saw Trump, Trumpism, white supremacy, Neo-Nazism, anti-Islamic hate, homophobia, transphobia, “economic nationalism,” anti-immigrant hysteria, the threat of tens of millions losing healthcare while the billionaire club gets richer by first breaking then re-writing the rules, and they said “No.”

This was an embrace of Democratic values. This was voters across America, saying, “We have had enough.”

It was as if the January 21st Women’s March covered the nation at the voting booths.

Some key observations.

First, Virginia.

Not only did Democrat Ralph Northam win the governor’s race against a candidate who tried to run on Trumpism without Trump, he won by 9 points. Pundits on Monday thought it could go either way.

The Democratic candidates for Lt. Governor and Attorney General also won.

But in the Virginia House of Delegates, Democrats picked up at least 16 seats – which hardly anyone dared to imagine, reversing a GOP supermajority. But it gets better. There are at least 5 races that will undergo recounts. The Democrats could take the majority.

“This is not a wave. This is a tsunami,” Virginia Del. David Toscano, leader of the Democratic caucus, told The Hill Tuesday night. “This is a huge, huge sea change here in Virginia.”

“I don’t think there’s any way you can get away from the notion that this was a sound defeat for Donald Trump tonight with this outpouring of support for Democratic candidates,” Toscano said.

And in one of the best stories of the night, also in Virginia, Danica Roem became the first openly transgender candidate to be elected a state legislator. 

It gets even better. She ran against a virulent anti-LGBT lawmaker who wrote the state’s anti-trans “bathroom bill.” Delegate Bob Marshall for decades has been targeting and attacking the LGBT community. This is what justice looks like.

Democrat Phil Murphy was elected to become governor of New Jersey.

Democrat Jenny Durkan was elected Seattle’s first openly-lesbian mayor, and first woman mayor in nearly a century. 

Democrat Andrea Jenkins became the first openly transgender woman of color elected to the city council of a major U.S. city, Minneapolis.

Democrat Justin Fairfax was elected Virginia’s Lt. Governor. He becomes the second African-American to win statewide in the Commonwealth.

Democrat Sheila Oliver becomes New Jersey’s first woman African-American lieutenant governor.

Democrat Vi Lyles becomes Charlotte, North Carolina’s first woman African-American mayor.

Democrat Tyler Titus was elected to the Erie, Pennsylvania school board. He becomes the first openly transgender person ever elected in the Commonwealth.

Democrat Ravinder Bhalla was elected mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, making him that city’s first ever Sikh American mayor.

Maine voters, by a 17-point margin, voted to expand Medicare in their state. Their GOP governor opposed the measure.

Not specific to Tuesday’s election, but ObamaCare enrollments, even though Trump cut the ad budget by 90%, have already hit record numbers.

This is just a sampling.

Here’s Trump’s co-author, who wrote “Art of the Deal”:

But this is just the beginning. The hard work starts now. Anyone who threw their hands up in disgust a year ago, six months ago, a week ago: Time to get to work.

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Fox News Host Suggests Trump ‘Force’ Court to Throw Him in Jail – by Quoting Him

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The Fox News host who targeted a juror serving on Donald Trump’s criminal New York trial is now suggesting the ex-president should violate his gag order and “force” the court to throw him in jail, by quoting the Fox News host.

Jesse Watters came under fire earlier this week for profiling juror number two, sharing possibly identifying information published by a myriad of reporters but then using that information to pass judgment on her ability to serve.

“I’m not so sure about juror number two,” Watters concluded on Fox News.

Jurors, at the judge’s direction, were to remain anonymous, for their protection and the protection of the trial.

The judge excused her, after she said she felt she was not able to be impartial because friends and family were calling her asking if she had been chosen to serve on the Trump trial, after the media blitz.

New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan admonished the press for reporting the information, but some news outlets appeared to ignore his warning.

Watters on Wednesday “did a segment with a jury consultant, revealing details about people who had been seated on the jury and questioning whether some were ‘stealth liberals’ who would be out to convict Trump,” the Associated Press reported.

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Trump later posted Watters’ quote on his Truth Social platform, leading some, including New York prosecutors, to ask the judge to cite him for allegedly breaking his gag order.

Judge Merchan ordered Trump to not mention witnesses, jurors, prosecutors, court staff, or the family members of prosecutors and court staff, CNN has reported.

New York prosecutors told Juge Merchan Trump has violated the gag order at least ten times.

“Prosecutor Christopher Conroy described the ‘most disturbing’ example as a social media message Trump posted on Wednesday evening quoting a Fox News host as saying, ‘They are catching undercover Liberal Activists lying to the Judge in order to get on the Trump Jury,'” Politico reports.

That host was Jesse Watters.

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Friday afternoon, Watters appeared to egg Trump on, urging the ex-president to violate the gag order.

“I would make them put me in jail,” Watters said on Fox News. “I would have a tweet about something perhaps I said on ‘The Five’ or ‘Jesse Watters Primetime,’ and I would force them to throw me in jail.”

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Gaetz: ‘Corrupt’ Republicans Could ‘Take a Bribe’ and Throw House to Dems, Blocking Trump Run

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U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) says some of his fellow House Republicans would “take a bribe” to throw the razor-thin GOP majority to the Democrats if a far-right faction calls up a motion to oust Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, allowing Democrats to hand the gavel to the Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries. he warned if that happens, Democrats would immediately declare Trump ineligible to be President, pack the U.S. Supreme Court, and pass numerous laws like the American Rescue Plan.

“I do believe in a one seat majority there could be one or two or three of my colleagues who would take a bribe in one form or another in order to deprive the Republicans of a majority at all,” Gaetz said Friday on his podcast (video below.)

He added, “the risk that one or two of my corrupt Republican colleagues might take a bribe, take a walk, feign an ailment and flip this thing to the Democrats is a risk that is too high for me at this time.”

Gaetz’s fellow far-right Florida Republican member of Congress, Anna Paulina Luna, told listeners, “I heard that when, if and when the motion vacate is introduced, that there will be immediate resignations of a couple of more moderate members of Congress. And in the event that that happens, that ultimately means it does go to a Democrat speaker.”

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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) last month filed a “motion to vacate,” which she can use at any time to force a vote to oust the GOP Speaker, Mike Johnson. U.S. Rep. Tim Massie (R-KY) and just today, U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) has signed on as co-sponsors.

Congressman Gaetz told listeners if Democrats do take the House through a force vote to remove Johnson, Democrats would “be declaring Donald Trump an insurrectionist and setting up a barrier to him being able to become the president United States.”

“That’ll be their leadoff hitter, and then the chaser to that shot will be a massive spending package that looks a lot more like the American Rescue Plan. They will blow past every concept of every cap ever imagined. You’ll be looking at Universal Basic Income, you could be looking at packing the Supreme Court.”

Watch a short clip of Gaetz’s remarks below or at this link.

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Jeffries Vows Democrats Will Ensure Ukraine Aid Passes as Johnson Defectors Grow

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Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries vowed Friday the majority of Democrats will support Republicans’ Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and Gaza foreign aid legislation as Republican Speaker Mike Johnson lost support of another member of his conference to a faction determined to oust him.

“Democrats will provide a majority of our majority as it relates to funding Israel, humanitarian assistance, Ukraine, and our allies in the Indo Pacific,” Minority Leader Jeffries said. “It remains to be seen what Republicans will do in terms of meeting the national security needs of the American people, but it was important for House Democrats to ensure that the national security bills are going to be considered.”

Despite Republicans having a one-vote majority, more Democrats on Friday voted to move the critical and long-awaited foreign aid bills forward than did Republicans.

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The 316-94 vote included 165 Democrats and 151 Republicans voting yes, and 55 Republicans and 39 Democrats voting no.

Axios’ Juliegrace Brufke posted the list of Republicans voting against their party’s legislation.

Calling it a “rare” moment in modern congressional history to have to rely on opposition party votes to pass legislation, BBC News reports Speaker Johnson’s “hold on power is tenuous, and the legislators who oppose him – and his bid to provide aid to Ukraine – occupy some key positions within the House’s power structure.”

Amid the procedural vote to move the foreign aid funding bills forward, U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar, a far-right Republican of Arizona, announced he is joining Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), and Congressman Tim Massie (R-KY) in formally announcing their will vote to oust Speaker Johnson.

Gosar, like Greene, is reportedly a Christian nationalist. In 2022 CNN reported his “lengthy ties to White nationalists, [a] pro-Nazi blogger and far-right fringe received little pushback for years.”

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“We’ve been very honest in our assessment of the situation from the beginning,” Jeffries on Friday also declared. “At the appropriate time as House Democrats, we will have a conversation about how to deal with any hypothetical motion to vacate.”

“Moscow Marjorie Taylor Greene, Massie, and Gosar are quite a group. But central to our conversation is to make sure that the national security legislation in totality is passed by the House of Representatives.”

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