Posted on 02/14/2024 3:11:55 PM PST by bigdaddy45
A Republican winning an Oklahoma special election on Tuesday night in a deep red area by just five points has sparked concerns about the GOP's performance in November's races.
Republican Erick Harris won House District 39's special election by 261 votes, beating Democrat Regan Raff into second place (50 percent to 45 percent). The election was triggered following former state Representative Ryan Martinez's resignation last September after pleading guilty to a felony offense of being in physical control of a vehicle while intoxicated.
While the result is not likely not an indication of the outcome of the 2024 presidential election in Oklahoma—where Donald Trump beat Joe Biden by 33 points in 2020—Harris' marginal victory in the Edmond district which Trump won by 26 points in the last election has raised concerns.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
A special election squeaker means little, particularly with the very small amount of votes in the race in the first place.
These aren’t any proof of anything.
Democrats are searching for any glimmer of hope but this means nothing. People will pour out of every nook and cranny to vote for Trump, not for every Joe Schmoe who runs under the R label.
The alarm bell is that the Democrats are going to have to cheat even harder in November.
I feel like the days when we could dominate in special elections and off-year elections are gone. It’s like things have been inverted and our voters are behaving more like Democrat voters used to and only turning out for presidential elections.
Fortifying elections is their forte.
I told the Republicans there not to vote for him because he wasn’t ‘pure’ enough for me, and therefore a Democrat, any Democrat is FAR BETTER, as that will ‘teach the GOP a lesson’.
(don’t laugh, half the people reading this agree with the above)
Why Democrat party (who has done everything imaginable to destroy this country) would even get 1 vote really amazes me, let alone come “close” in ANY election, much less win one.
Newsweek article, will they be wanting to discredit polls entirely?
Without any way to predict elections stealing becomes easier.
This article sounds like it was written by a concern troll.
If 50 to 45 percent is only 261 vote difference then clearly the total vote was minimal.
It was also posted by a TDS concern troll. LOL This is supposed to drive you into DeSantis or Nikki’s arms.
Yes, you are right. Half of the people here prefer “loosing with honor” that winning.
We, the Republican are in danger of becoming the PURE 25% party. Pure, but never winning anything!
Underperformed or outcheated?
YAWN! This election was for a Oklahoma House District seat, NOT a congressional seat. A 261 vote win out of 5200 total votes. This was a very low turnout. Maybe GOP voters are fed up with Senator Lankford and did not feel like turning out to vote for anyone.
Could you please choose a different metaphor than one whose literal meaning raises instills nausea.
We have traded the high-propensity white college-educated voters in the suburbs for a lot more low-propensity voters who seem to only come out and vote for Donald Trump.
That gets you closer in Pennsylvania and Michigan and that's about it
This one has more umph. You must gird your loins.
A couple examples:
In both cases, even though the disgraced incumbent was not running, the electorate punished the party of the former incumbent.
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