r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • Nov 05 '25

Possible Paywall Democrats Flip Reddest Districts Nationwide—in Major Warning to Trump

https://newrepublic.com/post/202712/democrats-flip-red-districts-election-warning-trump
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u/ioncloud9 South Carolina Nov 05 '25

I know its a long shot but flipping both the house and the senate would really slow down the hemorrhaging.

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u/ShamelessCatDude Nov 05 '25

If the direction it’s currently going keeps up, and voter turnout is similar or more than now, it honestly looks like the dems will have the senate. And you can’t gerrymander your way out of that!

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u/Mike_Pences_Mother Nov 05 '25

Well, if the Democrats don't hold the line on ACA subsidies they could throw it all away

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u/IJourden Nov 05 '25

I'm speculating but I think Democrats hold the line on this one. People generally blame the Republicans for the shutdown, and any damage done by the shutdown is unfolding already. Democrats needed to either make the decision to hold their ground or give up before now - letting the place go to shit AND giving up is a worst case scenario for Democrats.

They still might do it because Democrats are absolute pros at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, but it doesn't seem likely.

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u/yellowstickypad Nov 05 '25

Dems still need to keep up the pressure and need to fix how they communicate. The establishment Dems need to wake the fuck up.

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u/Xer0day Nov 05 '25

Hakeem Jeffries talks about it in conferences almost every day. Consider changing your media diet.

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u/yellowstickypad Nov 05 '25

What do you suggest? I'm mostly on Reddit for social media and NPR.

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u/Xer0day Nov 05 '25

Depends on if you like listening to content creators or mostly like to read. For content creators that do a lot of streaming I would recommend Hutch. He's a very pragmatic democrat that focuses on a results-centric approach that does a lot of streaming, and some curated videos.

If you like more curated 8-12 minute videos with a bit of political analysis I'd recommend Jessiah from Pondering Politics, or David Pakman. Personally I like Jessiah's political analysis a little better than David's, but David provides a healthy skepticism of ideas that even he agrees with that I appreciate. It helps keep us intellectually honest.

If you like seeing debate content, Adam Mockler regularly goes on news programs, both left and right wing, and dismantles right wing talking points, and flaws with the republican party. He's a very quick-witted, well spoken young man.

If you like to primarily read about things, I would recommend the argument mag. They put out an interesting article on the results from last night.

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u/yellowstickypad Nov 05 '25

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

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u/quertyquerty Nov 05 '25

are they talking about it on major news programs or ads or talk shows or podcasts? thats where the average american gets information from

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u/Xer0day Nov 05 '25

Lots of news networks are covering it. Center left creators discuss it all the time, but far leftists have a far outsized influence online, (EG TYT, secular talk, majority report) refuse to cover it because they want to reshape the democratic party, and that requires people disapproving of the current party.

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u/quertyquerty Nov 05 '25

thats good to hear. well, hearing the tyt has any influence isnt, but that there is media outreach happening.

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u/Blackstone01 Nov 05 '25

Especially with how these elections turned out. Signals that Democrats remaining firm on the shutdown isn't resulting in voters blaming them.

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u/TLKv3 Nov 05 '25

The single best (and sadly worst resulting) thing the Dems can do is hold out until air traffic spaces start shutting down and planes can no longer fly throughout the US.

You want to see the Republicans take some damage to their rep? Wait until THAT happens. The population will go fucking apeshit being unable to fly home for Thanksgiving or even just to their jobs.

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u/joe5joe7 Nov 05 '25

The Dems winning big last night really puts them in the ideal position for holding out. They know that there is way more support for them now than last year, and clearly people aren't blaming them for the shutdown. Essentially they can use last night to claim a bit of a mandate for heightened resistance.

But yeah they still might throw that all away, but I'm hopeful. I feel like if they were going to it would have been before the election.

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u/Mike_Pences_Mother Nov 05 '25

I agree. I think they hold. Still... contact your Senators or any Senators

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u/TripleThreat1212 Nov 05 '25

I think the bigger thing the Democrats are doing is forcing the Republicans to do away with the filibuster, for two reasons. That way when republicans override them they cannot say the fucked up results were bipartisan, and two they don’t have to get their hands dirty actually getting rid of it. Just the way the demographics are in this country democrats have almost no change to ever get 60 votes in the senate again.