Category: President
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Despite Trump’s Victory, Cumberland County Democrats Crawl Back From The Brink
A map depicting Cumberland County, New Jersey (left) and the county’s precinct level election results from the 2020 Presidential Race (right). Trump flipped Cumberland, becoming the first Republican to win the County since George HW Bush in 1988. Cumberland County was long a fortress for the South Jersey Democratic Political Machine run by local powerbroker… Read more
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Rob Bresnahan Flips Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District Defeating Longtime Democratic Incumbent, Amid Trump Surge in Northeastern Pennsylvania
Rob Bresnahan flipped a Congressional Seat in North Eastern Pennsylvania, an ancestral Democratic area that has trended significantly to the right in the Trump Era. In a big victory for House Republicans Rob Bresnahan defeated incumbent Democrat Matt Cartwright in Pennslyvania’s highly competitive 8th Congressional District. Cartwright, a partner at a local law firm before… Read more
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Democrats Overperform in New Jersey Special Election Despite Talk of Black Voter Slippage
Congresswoman-Elect LaMonica McIver, a Democrat, won the special election to succeed the late Donald Payne Jr. in New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District Despite talk of the Democratic Party facing a slippage in Black voter support, particularly in urban areas, the special election on Tuesday night in a majority black Congressional District based in Newark failed… Read more
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Shocking Selzer Poll Finds Kamala Harris Only Narrowly Trailing in Iowa
Kamala Harris sits for an interview in Muscatine, Iowa ahead of the Iowa Caucus during the 2020 Democratic Party Presidential Primaries. Iowa has drifted away from Democrats in recent cycles but a new poll shows Harris narrowing the gap. Iowa Democrats have experienced a 12 year drought in Federal Races and that is likely to… Read more