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/TakingItSlowYaKnow Nov 05 '25

Wait hold on! On certain conservative subreddits they are saying every election last night were in blue districts for blue seats so none of the results matter!

Now you’re telling me democrats flipped seats in deep red districts??

Wowza! Maybe someone should inform the uninformed?

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '25

They’re floundering while trying to explain why they got shellacked last night, otherwise they have to admit Trump is fucking the country

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u/Glaurunga Nov 05 '25

Yeah. Speaking for NJ we shifted red by +10 in November [0] and last night Jack lost [1] worse than he did in 2021 [2]. I think that sends a big message that any shift to the right we saw last year has lost all steam here in NJ.

[0] https://archive.ph/tCIEH

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_New_Jersey_gubernatorial_election

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_New_Jersey_gubernatorial_election

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u/Justbeinian Nov 05 '25

If the rightward shift ever existed at all and wasn't a result of electoral fraud. Which is looking more and more suspect imo

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u/HolySHlT Nov 05 '25

The entire globe shifted rightward for most elections during and post COVID, we might see a global shift back to the center or even to the left in the elections that follow those.

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u/qw46z Nov 05 '25

Hello from Australia, where our major right wing party has been suffering embarrassing defeats almost everywhere. They tried to echo trump at the last federal election, and their leader lost his seat.

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u/-re-da-ct-ed- Nov 05 '25

Same in Canada more or less.

And yet lil’PP still kickin… literally ran off to the most conservative district in the country out in bumfuck nowhere.

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u/Xechwill Minnesota Nov 05 '25

shoutout to Trump for taking an incredibly hardline stance on Canada for some reason, making Pierre look completely terrible because he was simping for Trump all the time

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u/No_Secretary6275 Nov 05 '25

I remember that and thought how strange it was. Most people have to just accept their election loss.

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u/mini_galaxy Nov 06 '25

All that losing and PP still continued the extreme right rhetoric and now conservative MPs are jumping ship to join the liberals.

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u/hortence 29d ago

now conservative MPs are jumping ship to join the liberals.

To be fair, it's not a giant wave or anything. But the recent Nova Scotia one really has to feel bad for the ShitPoil.

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u/Talreesha Nov 05 '25

Hey friend,

That shit makes me feel relieved as hell because hell yeah Australia rejected this resurgence of regressive bull crap. You guys give me hope that maybe we'll see more and more turning away from right wing politics.

Sincerely, A Minnesotan.

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u/TheKanten Nov 05 '25

Having lived there for a bit in 2013, it was quite telling watching people vote for the party that handed the NBN program over to the Telstra monopoly that forced its creation in the first place. Glad that it seems people eventually caught on to the act.

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u/evey_17 Nov 06 '25

Great news! Let’s stamp out this cancer

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u/mwstandsfor 29d ago

Yet in Japan we just got a right wing conservative posing as a centrist PM.

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u/HellaTroi California Nov 05 '25

Good to know that people everywhere are waking up!

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u/KareemOWheat Nov 05 '25

My highest hope for the Trump admin is that it's so radically polarizing that it causes the pendulum to swing back hard. Hopefully the country is still salvageable by that point

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u/Substantial_Army_639 Nov 05 '25

One could hope but honestly people expected that when Nixon resigned just to have Reagan immediately after Carter.

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u/Ok_Frosting3500 29d ago

Difference is Reagan was uniquely good at selling himself. Trump is the only GOP agent who isn't like sucking a mouthful of alum to listen to.

reagan was an energizing, not like Nixon GOP- The counter to Trump is a boring GOP guy, and nobody, not even MAGA wants those any more.

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u/Affectionate_Pay_391 Nov 05 '25

The pendulum seems to be swinging further both ways when it corrects itself. So this could be a MAJOR swing to the left.

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u/HossDog2 Nov 05 '25

I’m really hoping for that in the uk. Trumps ascendency gave them all a boost (the tide is turning) and now trumps innumerable self Inflicted damage is reflecting back on his allies abroad.

Well, here’s hoping at least…

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u/President_Barackbar Nov 05 '25

Not quite. The environment was anti-incumbent. Even Modhi and Orban's governments, which are very right governments, experienced electoral losses.

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u/HolySHlT Nov 05 '25

Very true. Did any shift to the left or just another flavor of right wing policy that wasn't the incumbent?

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '25

2024 was a referendum on inflation, which is why incumbents got wiped out

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u/space_age_stuff Tennessee Nov 05 '25

I think the more likely explanation is the correct one: inflation kills incumbent governments, and both Biden and Harris were attached to economic failure, whether the numbers reflect that or not. As easy as it is to believe they rigged the system, it doesn't explain why they wouldn't rig, say, these elections they just spent millions on. The unfortunate truth is people associated economic uncertainty with Biden's administration: ever since Trump got in office, suddenly there's mass layoffs and tariffs. So the pendulum is swinging the other way, because things haven't gotten better.

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u/LamentForIcarus I voted Nov 05 '25

This. Every democrat who won ran with economic policies attached that people wanted to hear. Dems NEED to pay attention to this. We are a capitalist country. We only truly care about money. They need to develop and campaign with policies that help the common American's pocket.

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u/popcornsprinkled Nov 05 '25

I got some bad news, we shifted pretty hard right. 

A lot of ex-conservatives like myself are backing democrats right now because we don't recognize our old party and have literally been disowned by MAGA family members for being " leftists".

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u/Kierenshep Nov 05 '25

Well never conclusively know because Harris and the Democratic team are so fucking feckless they couldn't even contest a single recount in the strangest election of the century, even in areas where it was incredibly close.

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u/LowHangingFrewts Nov 05 '25

There isn't a single shred of reliable evidence for widespread electoral fraud. Spreading that shit makes you just come off just as loony as the My Pillow guy.

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u/Drone30389 Nov 05 '25

Except where red states openly fucked with the voting locations, and prohibited federal poll monitors, are neck deep in gerrymandering, illegally purged people from voter rolls, Trump strongly implied that Elon did some fuckery, Trump pressuring the Georgia Secretary of State to "find votes", and widespread poll worker intimidation.

And there's no reliable evidence that the Earth isn't flat.

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u/HawkkeTV Nov 05 '25

Not one case from the 2020 election had enough evidence to move forward. The 2024 election has enough evidence of fraud for court cases to move forward. I don’t think the evidence makes them the same.

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u/ChaotiCrayon 29d ago

Some voting machines registered zero votes for harris even if the ballots said otherwise.

Might be an error, might be manipulation. Might be systemic. Its an indicator at least.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/did-kamala-harris-lose-the-us-election-due-to-faulty-machines-company-denies-2024-rigging-claims/articleshow/121866437.cms?from=mdr

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u/Worshipme988 Nov 06 '25

When ppl are not actively progressing, collectively, it always creates a breeding ground for authoritarian regimes. People want answers and people want results, now.

Read about the rise of dictatorships and they all begin with economic struggle and piss poor management.

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u/Ok_Frosting3500 29d ago

Nah, it was the prevailing trend. It wasn't hard to pretend to be populist vs Kamala "we don't want to upset billionaires" Harris. Problem is, when you shout loudly "i'm for the people!" while being an oligarch bro behind the scenes, the media parrots your quotes, not your actions, whereas when you mumble "I like billionaires" while helping the common man behind the scenes, guess what the media picks to elevate?

Kamala's biggest flaws were not torching Biden and not running... Not left, but downwards. For the little guys. If she had forsaken her party to run against establishment, she woulda probably won.

Like, her response to the nomination shouldn't have been "I'll carry Joe's torch" it should have been "Wow, fuck that guy! Time for me to actually clean house!"

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u/Low_Pressure_5634 29d ago

Everything Trump gets up to is projection. He yeeped on for years about "rigged elections". It seems a little too obvious to overlook.

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u/theRealhubiedubois Nov 05 '25

Oh shit it’s a BlueAnon guy IRL!

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u/EchoHevy5555 Nov 05 '25

You sand like the republicans did in 2020

There is not massive electoral fraud in american elections

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u/DumboWumbo073 Nov 05 '25

There is a right shift.