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Republicans' Huge Underperformance in Oklahoma Raises Alarm Bells
Newsweak ^

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 ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
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To: hcmama

Hah hah, the real educated ones like you who were taken in by the RDS Bush wing were traded in for all the hillbillies like all of us who have only voted for Trump.

What a total clown you are.


21 posted on 02/14/2024 3:47:23 PM PST by dforest
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To: bigdaddy45

Edmond is leaning Dim...fwiw.


22 posted on 02/14/2024 3:47:59 PM PST by Osage Orange (I miss Rush)
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To: bigdaddy45

Edmond, OK, is a somewhat sprawling neighborhood with business and shopping -type community at the northeast tip of the greater Oklahoma City, OK area.

Some locals work in the area; otherwise, commuting.

The general Oklahoma City area is worn out in places that need road repair. The roads take a beating in winter. Old concrete in really bad shape.

The entire area, seemed . . . exhausted. Around the airport, was a hotel ghost town. Indications of crime, and reason to not stay there.

In general, maintenance seems to have taken a very long holiday.

YMMV


23 posted on 02/14/2024 3:51:37 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: LegendHasIt

Ronna McDaniel’s departure should help!


24 posted on 02/14/2024 3:52:00 PM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: dforest

I make a polite gentle request and you just pile on.


25 posted on 02/14/2024 3:58:26 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: bigdaddy45

There are problems all over with numbers annd polls showing Trump in the lead. IMHO, NO WAY Biden loses in Nov. I think the fix is already in and the NY election last night had 11k more DEM mail in ballots than REP. Shocking


26 posted on 02/14/2024 4:00:45 PM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: AndyJackson

My apologies. I didn’t mean for you to get your bowels in an uproar.


27 posted on 02/14/2024 4:01:12 PM PST by dforest
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To: bigdaddy45

Maybe James Lankford (Lump of Wet Sand-OK) is discouraging GOP turnout.


28 posted on 02/14/2024 4:02:30 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: dforest

“This is supposed to drive you into DeSantis or Nikki’s arms.”

DeSantis is not running.


29 posted on 02/14/2024 4:03:14 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: BobL

I’m laughing anyway. And when Communism comes to America in the form of “teaching the GOP a lesson”, I will break out the old Soviet jokes.


30 posted on 02/14/2024 4:03:37 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Osage Orange

Edmond is leaning Dim...fwiw.


Lots of out of state, (California/Nevada) licence plates in Edmond these days...Niki Haley signs in yards as well.

When Oklahoma goes down the tubes...it’s over. This is the last refuge for true conservatives...end of the road.


31 posted on 02/14/2024 4:03:58 PM PST by AFret. (.)
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To: bigdaddy45

Big Daddy...

Please explain why almost no one voted in this Special election.

Won by 5% or 261 votes.

That means roughly 5,200 people voted in total.

There are at least 520,000 eligible voters in the average Congressional District.


32 posted on 02/14/2024 4:04:46 PM PST by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: TexasGator

He only suspended. But you know that.


33 posted on 02/14/2024 4:04:57 PM PST by dforest
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To: AFret.

Well....I wouldn’t get your panties in a wad.....


34 posted on 02/14/2024 4:10:05 PM PST by Osage Orange (I miss Rush)
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To: dforest

“He only suspended. But you know that.”

He endorsed Trump.

Trump called him a terrific person.


35 posted on 02/14/2024 4:11:13 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: LegendHasIt
The alarm bell is that the Democrats are going to have to cheat even harder in November.

And they will. NOTHING has been done about cheat-by-mail-in ballots. There is no "cheat margin" with them. The Dems only have to slow-walk the count for a week in order for enough of them to be manufactured to put the Democrat ahead. And once the "points are on the board," there's no court in the land that will investigate the cheating.

36 posted on 02/14/2024 4:15:50 PM PST by HandBasketHell
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To: bigdaddy45

What the democrats have is the ability to bring national resources to local elections. In the past this has been volunteers nonprofits and money.

Now it includes the federal government, volunteers, nonprofits, money and illegals.

Even if Trump wins in november —the democrats are going to take a lot state and local offices. Maybe a shocking number of offices. Republicans don’t have any answer to it as far as I can see.


37 posted on 02/14/2024 4:16:00 PM PST by ckilmer
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To: sam_whiskey

Republicans don’t give people any reason to vote for them other than “We Suck Less”.


38 posted on 02/14/2024 4:19:20 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ckilmer

Normals don’t want to get involved in politics, it is what it is.


39 posted on 02/14/2024 4:21:30 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: bigdaddy45

This is happening every election cycle now. Repub. are expected to clean house. Election happens. Democrats over perform. Republicans are flabbergasted.

RINSE, REPEAT


40 posted on 02/14/2024 4:21:31 PM PST by hillarys cankles
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