Posted on 11/17/2020 7:31:12 PM PST by 11th_VA
Several races where Democrats led on election night have since flipped to the GOP, leaving the overall balance of power in Olympia unchanged.
Democrats were optimistic that they would pick up at least a seat or two in Washington's Legislature, based on early results on election night. Then, as sometimes happens in Washington’s vote-by-mail elections, things changed.
Late ballots skewed Republican to an unusual degree, zeroing out the gains Democrats initially thought they might have made. While some state legislative seats changed from Republican to Democratic hands and vice versa, the final result is that Democrats will now have the same majorities in Olympia as they had before.
Democrats will maintain their 57-41 majority in the state House and their 28-21 majority in the state Senate. A conservative Democrat who caucuses with Republicans is counted among Republicans in those numbers.
Democrats’ failure to pick up new seats could complicate their plans to pursue some progressive policies that they have had trouble passing in recent years. Those include a clean fuel standard to require cleaner gasoline for cars and trucks, as well as a tax on capital gains (such as profits from selling stocks and bonds)...
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"No your honor, Trump is wrong about mail-in ballots being fraudulent to benefit the Democrat. I mean.. LOOK WHAT HAPPENED IN WASHINGTON STATE!"
Made up quote! Just projecting to arguments made to SCOTUS by the DemonRat THEFT party.
IF only Cray cray Insleaze could go down in country wide Dominion racketeering takedown
it would put a smile on my face!
Dang, I guess the homeless bums and dead voters did not know they needed to fill in other boxes for demorats and not just Biden/Hairass. Well what did they expect to get for a bottle of Ripple or Mad Dog?
Gotta love how fraudulent the voting is here. Thank you mail in balloting counted by the people that are in power.
It’s like having all the people of Washington DC assigned to counting the national ballots. You’d expect that 95% liberal partisans to be honest right? Right...
Democrats: hey, only WE can flip seats AFTER the election! What gives, man???
We use Dominion in Everett and Seattle for sure. Other places in WA too (Western only).
R90 passes? I don’t think so.
Just imagine how it would have turned out if the ‘Rats *hadn’t* cheated in WWA!
Nice, and I guess those districts went for Biden. Ok, and Starbuck coffee is cheap, too!! 😀
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