Posted on 11/06/2024 4:30:20 PM PST by cotton1706
Republicans took control of the Michigan House and will share power in the Minnesota House, blocking the home-state agenda of Gov. Tim Walz.
Republicans have ended Democratic trifectas in Michigan and Minnesota, putting the brakes on progressive bills in those states.
Republicans also took control of the Pennsylvania House.
They did not lose a single chamber, although Democrats may have forced a tie in the Arizona House.
Republicans have dominated state politics since 2010 and now have full control of 23 states, compared to 15 for Democrats.
Running for vice president raised Tim Walz’s national profile, but now he has to return to his day job as governor of Minnesota. He’s going to find the next two years a lot more frustrating than the last two.
Since Democrats took full control of the Legislature in 2022, Walz has been able to sign any number of progressive bills on issues including abortion and transgender rights, as well as major spending increases for education and transit. But on Tuesday, Republicans won three additional seats in the state House, throwing that chamber into a tie and bringing the governor’s legislative agenda to a screeching halt.
“I would argue that Gov. Walz is dramatically weakened as a governor as a result of this,” says David Schulz, a political scientist at Hamline University in St. Paul. “His star, I think, is dramatically diminished.”
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This is great news.
There was great news for the Demorats in North Dakota: they gained one state senate seat. It was 43 Republicans and 4 Democrats now it will be 42 Republicans and 5 Democrats.
I believe I read that the Republicans hold all of the state-wide elected offices.
“Republicans also took control of the Pennsylvania House.”
They need 1 pickup out of 203 seats to accomplish that. I went through all 203 earlier today and must have missed it because every one of them looked to be held by the same party which already did.
Democrats also failed to get the PA Senate. They easily picked up one heavily-gerrymandered district in Harrisburg, but lost the one they tried to rig in Erie and also lost the marginal district west of Pittsburgh. They needed +3 and only got +1.
“His star, I think, is dramatically diminished.”
You don’t say. He has come off as a buffoon.
Dems can eat me. ( “Well, when I see five weirdos, dressed in togas, stabbing a man in the middle of the park in full view of a hundred people, I shoot the bastards, that’s my policy!”)
lolz, “He’s got a picture of your wife!”
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