Democrats on Monday officially claimed a second upset in Florida’s recent special elections when The Associated Press declared an electrical workers union leader to be the winner of a tight state senate contest in reliably Republican West Tampa.
Brian Nathan, a Navy veteran and member of a new cadre of working class Democrats, will join Emily Gregory, a small-business owner with a public-health background, as upstart Democrats in Tallahassee. Ms. Gregory on Tuesday won a state house district in Palm Beach that includes President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago seaside mansion.
The upsets supplied the latest electoral boost to a party that suffered setbacks in 2024 in Washington, D.C., and in state capitols across the country but is staging a comeback.
Mr. Nathan, 45, is one of many blue-collar Democrats and anti-Republican independents vying for U.S. House and Senate seats, as well as state legislative posts. Those include Bob Brooks, a retired firefighter, and Brian Poindexter, a union ironworker, who are running for House seats in Pennsylvania and Ohio; Graham Platner, an oysterman, and Dan Osborn, an industrial electrician, running for the Senate in Maine and Nebraska; and Sam Forstag, a smokejumper and union leader, who is vying for the Democratic nomination for a House seat in Montana.
Mikethebest78 on
Keep marching forward one election at a time and one victory at a time.
isekai_cheese on
we need more real working people in government and less pedophiles and pedo protectors.
TuffGritts on
How many seats have the Dems flipped? I kinda lost track tbh
Starmiebuckss2882 on
More people like this running. Career politicians need to go bye bye. They are totally beholden to lobbyists.
Fabulous_Chicken_576 on
Better someone working with their own hands than a rich idiot that bought their degree, like I want certain positions to be ran by educated folks (of you’re the Chief of Health or Security at least a life science or engineering bachelor would be nice), but for a seat in the Senate? Bring more people with blue collar/trades backgrounds that have parents from the middle class, they would understand certain issues with the avarage citizen more than the kid with a JD from Harvard that never had to lift a finger or learn how to cook or change a car’s tire.
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Democrats on Monday officially claimed a second upset in Florida’s recent special elections when The Associated Press declared an electrical workers union leader to be the winner of a tight state senate contest in reliably Republican West Tampa.
Brian Nathan, a Navy veteran and member of a new cadre of working class Democrats, will join Emily Gregory, a small-business owner with a public-health background, as upstart Democrats in Tallahassee. Ms. Gregory on Tuesday won a state house district in Palm Beach that includes President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago seaside mansion.
The upsets supplied the latest electoral boost to a party that suffered setbacks in 2024 in Washington, D.C., and in state capitols across the country but is staging a comeback.
Mr. Nathan, 45, is one of many blue-collar Democrats and anti-Republican independents vying for U.S. House and Senate seats, as well as state legislative posts. Those include Bob Brooks, a retired firefighter, and Brian Poindexter, a union ironworker, who are running for House seats in Pennsylvania and Ohio; Graham Platner, an oysterman, and Dan Osborn, an industrial electrician, running for the Senate in Maine and Nebraska; and Sam Forstag, a smokejumper and union leader, who is vying for the Democratic nomination for a House seat in Montana.
Keep marching forward one election at a time and one victory at a time.
we need more real working people in government and less pedophiles and pedo protectors.
How many seats have the Dems flipped? I kinda lost track tbh
More people like this running. Career politicians need to go bye bye. They are totally beholden to lobbyists.
Better someone working with their own hands than a rich idiot that bought their degree, like I want certain positions to be ran by educated folks (of you’re the Chief of Health or Security at least a life science or engineering bachelor would be nice), but for a seat in the Senate? Bring more people with blue collar/trades backgrounds that have parents from the middle class, they would understand certain issues with the avarage citizen more than the kid with a JD from Harvard that never had to lift a finger or learn how to cook or change a car’s tire.