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Republicans win Florida special elections, helping pad House margin

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

The Florida and Wisconsin election results are a warning for Trump and Republicans

Republicans in Florida couldn’t re-create Trump’s November margins, while Musk’s efforts in Wisconsin failed

By Lloyd Green | Wed 2 Apr 2025 13.10 EDT

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/02/trump-republican
s-florida-wisconsin-election-results

In a special election in Florida’s sixth congressional district to fill the vacancy left by Mike Waltz, Trump’s beleaguered national security adviser, voters elected Randy Fine, a Republican state senator, as Waltz’s replacement. Last November, Trump won the district by a whopping 30 points. By contrast, Fine’s margin was about 14 points.

A poll conducted by Tony Fabrizio, a pollster to the president, actually showed Fine down by four points less than two weeks before the election. Those figures gave Trump and Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House, plenty to worry about.

Fabrizio’s survey also triggered Trump’s decision to pull the nomination of Elise Stefanik as ambassador to the UN. Although she represented a so-called safe GOP district in upstate New York – “Mississippi with icicles”, in the words of one observer – the president was not prepared to take unnecessary chances.

He made the right call, politically speaking. Turns out, Florida’s sixth congressional district was not the only storm cloud in the Sunshine state.

The election to fill the seat vacated by Matt Gaetz, Trump’s first pick for attorney general, in the first congressional district experienced an even larger drop in GOP support. Back in November, Trump garnered a 37-point margin. On Tuesday, Republican Jimmy Patronis carried the district by about 13 points, a 24-point decline.

In hindsight, Trump was right to end Stefanik’s dreams. The GOP dropoffs in Florida’s first and sixth congressional districts signaled that the battle to replace her would have been a nailbiter.

The results of the Tuesday’s House races also bear strong similarities to the special elections of 2017 and 2018. Back then, Democrats ran about 15 points ahead of Hillary Clinton’s performance on election day 2016.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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The Florida and Wisconsin election results are a warning for Trump and Republicans

Republicans in Florida couldn’t re-create Trump’s November margins, while Musk’s efforts in Wisconsin failed

Nah. Republicans are always bad at these and Democrats always win them.

I would say that it's a wakeup call to Republicans to actually go out and do what they need to do outside of presidential elections and mid-terms. Republicans have no ground game because they didn't have the government agencies devoted to it. The Democrats had that.

Time to get that taxpayer money out of Democrat hands and let's see how much they can get done when they're not paying anybody to do it.

You lost the ability to fix Wisconsin elections now that the people of Wisconsin voted overwhelmingly to require Voter ID in elections. You've lost Wisconsin as a swing state as of yesterday.

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