{"id":1055867,"date":"2025-09-04T11:19:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1055867"},"modified":"2025-09-04T11:19:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:19:04","slug":"split-screen-while-democrats-are-overperforming-and-winning-elections-nationwide-republicans-are-running-scared-or-not-running-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/split-screen-while-democrats-are-overperforming-and-winning-elections-nationwide-republicans-are-running-scared-or-not-running-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"SPLIT SCREEN: While Democrats Are Overperforming and Winning Elections Nationwide, Republicans Are Running Scared or Not Running At All"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Across the country, the American people are overwhelmingly electing strong, qualified Democratic leaders at all levels of government to govern on behalf of working families. That\u2019s why in 2025 alone, Democrats have won or overperformed the top of the 2024 ticket in 41 out of 42 key elections. <\/strong>Meanwhile, Republicans are running scared \u2013 getting booed and heckled at town halls, pathetically trying to \u201crebrand\u201d Trump\u2019s devastating tax scam, changing the congressional maps because they know they\u2019re on the verge of losing the House majority and retiring in droves after realizing they can\u2019t take the heat and would rather give up before the game even begins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voters are putting their faith in the Democratic Party, as Democrats continue beating the odds, overperform nationwide, and win back-to-back special elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newsweek<\/a>: \u201cDemocrats Overperform in Florida as They Cruise to Victory in Two Elections<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newsweek<\/a>: \u201cDemocrats Flip State Seat in District Trump Won by Double Digits\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HuffPost<\/a>: \u201cDemocrats Flip Key Seat In Iowa District That Trump Won By Double Digits\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cDemocrats win New York state Senate race in Trump-friendly district\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cDemocrats pull off an upset in Nebraska, electing Omaha\u2019s first Black mayor\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJohn Ewing Jr. was elected Omaha\u2019s first Black mayor on Tuesday, defeating the city\u2019s three-term Republican mayor,<\/strong> Jean Stothert, in a race where Democrats sought to tie her to President Donald Trump\u2019s unpopular agenda \u2014 another warning sign for Republicans in a critical battleground area.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KOLN<\/a>: \u201cAlthough Lincoln\u2019s city election is officially nonpartisan, Democratic leaders are declaring victory after several registered Democrats appeared to win key races, including seats on the City Council, Lincoln Public Schools Board, and Airport Authority.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iowa Capital Dispatch<\/a>: \u201cDemocrat Angelina Ramirez said Wednesday her victory in the Iowa House District 78 special election shows growing discontent among Iowa voters with Republican control in both the state and federal government.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newsweek<\/a>: \u201cDemocrat Flips Florida County That Donald Trump Won by 19 Points\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orlando Sentinel<\/a>: \u201cBut Tuesday\u2019s results showed a nearly 20-point swing towards Democrats <\/strong>compared to last year, a change that echoes similar shifts in recent special elections, including a state Senate win by a Democrat last week in a heavily red seat in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTuesday\u2019s special election for congressional District 1 in the Panhandle saw a similar swing, with Republican CFO Jimmy Patronis defeating Democrat Gay Valimont by about 14 points in a seat Matt Gaetz won by 32 points last year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cDemocrat James Andrew Malone narrowly won a special election for a Pennsylvania state Senate seat in a stretch of Republican-leaning suburbs and farming communities, scoring an upset in a territory that a Democrat hasn\u2019t represented in the chamber for 136 years.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wisconsin Examiner<\/a>: \u201cWisconsin voters elect Susan Crawford in rebuke of Trump, Musk\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCrawford rode massive turnout<\/strong> in Dane and Milwaukee counties and outperformed Kamala Harris\u2019 effort last year in a number of other parts of the state to defeat her opponent, Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel by about 10 points.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cIn fact, Democrats are overperforming their 2024 results by an average of nearly 16 points in state legislative races<\/strong>, according to The Downballot\u2019s special elections Big Board. That is not a blip \u2014 it is the same kind of sustained overperformance that foreshadowed the blue wave in 2018.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, as Republicans\u2019 approval ratings take a dive and their deeply unpopular policies face massive backlash from fed-up Americans, including getting booed and heckled at town halls, Republicans are running away from Trump\u2019s signature bill and some are throwing in the towel and retiring \u2014 a clear sign the GOP is afraid to face voters in another election. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cTrump Team Urges G.O.P. to Rebrand Signature Policy Law\u201d<\/strong>
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\u201cDon\u2019t call it the One Big Beautiful Bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThree top officials from President Trump\u2019s 2024 campaign urged Republican lawmakers on Tuesday morning to move away from the president\u2019s chosen moniker for his signature domestic policy legislation and instead rebrand it as a boost for ordinary Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn a closed-door briefing called to discuss midterm congressional campaign strategy, the officials encouraged lawmakers to refer to the measure as the \u201cWorking Families Tax Cut Bill\u201d or the \u201cWorking Families Tax Plan,\u201d according to members who attended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe attempt to relabel Mr. Trump\u2019s top legislative achievement was an implicit acknowledgment that the law is deeply unpopular, with its sweeping cuts to Medicaid and social safety net programs, as well as changes to the Affordable Care Act.\u201d
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The Guardian<\/a>: \u201cRepublican senator Joni Ernst of Iowa will not run for re-election\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEarlier this summer, Ernst drew fierce backlash when she appeared to dismiss voter fears that Medicaid cuts in the Republican immigration and tax package would put lives at risk, telling a town hall audience: \u2018We all are going to die.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRather than backtrack or apologize, Ernst doubled down in a video. \u2018I made an incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium understood that, yes, we are all going to perish from this earth,\u2019 she said. \u2018So I apologize, and I\u2019m really, really glad that I did not have to bring up the subject of the tooth fairy as well.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201cSen. Thom Tillis won’t run for reelection in 2026\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nebraska Examiner<\/a>: \u201cU.S. Rep. Don Bacon will not seek reelection in Nebraska\u2019s 2nd District\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cGOP House Homeland chairman Green to retire from Congress early\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NPR<\/a>: \u201cSen. Mitch McConnell says he will not seek reelection in 2026\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Across the country, the American people are overwhelmingly electing strong, qualified Democratic leaders at all levels of government to govern on behalf of working families. That\u2019s why in 2025 alone, Democrats have won or overperformed the top of the 2024 ticket in 41 out of 42 key elections. 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