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notkovach retweeted
Sort of on this note, in 2024, Republicans were very close to holding all 11 governorships in the former Confederacy for the first time (at least in the modern era).
But Josh Stein held NC and Dems have since added VA, GA, TX.
notkovach retweeted
Roy Cooper still would have won without the six largest counties he carried, which includes most of the state's major cities.
notkovach retweeted
This is how the South is moving in 2026.
The South’s got somethin to say.
And y’all are gonna listen.
DEMOCRATS WIN SENATE POPULAR VOTE ACROSS FORMER CONFEDERATE STATES
Democrats won the combined Senate popular vote across ten former Confederate states, securing 20,782,908 votes (53.74%) to Republicans' 17,888,197 (46.26%)—a margin of nearly 2.9 million votes.
The result is a major victory for Democrats in a region Republicans have dominated for decades. High Black voter turnout helped fuel the result, carrying particular historical significance in states where Black Americans were once denied the right to vote.
Democrats broke decades-long losing streaks in Texas and South Carolina. James Talarico became the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from Texas since Lloyd Bentsen in 1988, while Annie Andrews delivered South Carolina's first Democratic Senate victory since 1998.
Gene Nichol: “A gale force wind has swept across our politics. And, as we’ve always hoped, it blows from the South.”
Read more at: newsobserver.com/opinion/art…
In 2022, about 235,000 Mecklenburg County voters supported Democratic US Senate candidate Cheri Beasley.
This year, Meck Dem chair @WesleyHarrisNC vowed to get 300,000 votes for Roy Cooper "minimum."
I jokingly told him: don't make promises you can't keep.
Look at the results.
Trivia: The last Democrat to serve as the Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives was Joe Hackney of Chatham County.
The next Democrat to serve as the Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives is Robert Reives of Chatham County.
#ncpol #ncga
NEWS: House Democratic Leader @electreives has secured commitments from a majority of the incoming North Carolina House of Representatives to be elected Speaker.
#ncpol #ncga
Trivia: This will be the largest incoming North Carolina House Democratic Caucus since 1992.
#ncpol #NCGA
NEWS: House Democratic Leader @electreives has secured commitments from a majority of the incoming North Carolina House of Representatives to be elected Speaker.
#ncpol #ncga
NC Democrats have a lot more power in the legislature. What they want to do with it newsobserver.com/news/politi…
And in the North Carolina House, Robert Reives will take over as speaker with a virtual veto-proof majority, though he probably won’t need it.
politicsnc.com/p/riding-the-…
notkovach retweeted
Make no mistake: the pressure was on Anderson Clayton.
NC Democrats elected her chair when she was only 25 (!!) because she said she could organize better than the @NCDemParty did when it lost every statewide race in the 2022 midterms.
She met and *exceeded* expectations.
Every House Democratic candidate visited on this road trip today, as of right now, appears to have won their seat. #ncpol #ncga
House Minority Leader Robert Reives plans to hit a dozen target districts in an Election Day blitz that will include stops with candidates in Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Forsyth, Guilford, Alamance, Wake, Franklin and Nash counties. #ncga #ncpol pro.stateaffairs.com/nc/brie…
