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Florida Democrats Win Special Election in Mar-a-Lago’s District

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/politics/democrats-win-mar-a-lago-district.html
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KindfOfABigDeal Mar 25, 2026 +175
A Democrat winning a Republican seat in Florida? Maybe, just maybe, we might be healing.
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No_Blackberry6525 Mar 25, 2026 +93
I’m too jaded to think like that. Need another 25 years of wins before I’m convinced.
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MentalDisintegrat1on Mar 25, 2026 +33
Nah Republican party is a party of domestic terrorists they need to be banned and all of them hit with RICO.
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eerie_midnight Mar 25, 2026 +16
>Need another 25 years of wins before I’m convinced It’ll never happen. The American people have incredibly short memories. The vast majority of the American people have already largely forgotten January 6th even though it was one of the craziest things to ever happen in American history—and not only have they forgotten, they voted the guy back in who orchestrated the whole thing. This Democratic resurgence we’re seeing right now will be short-lived once they fully take back power and citizens have someone else to blame for all their problems.
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No_Blackberry6525 Mar 25, 2026 +1
I know
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RespectTheAmish Mar 25, 2026 +3
Exactly. Healing would be a completely disbanded RNC. current Democratic Party stays centralists with the likes of Schumer, Pelosi, etc. A new progressive party forms on the left with the AOC, Bernie wing. Then the debate isn’t “do we take away health care for 22 million Americans to give billionaires a tax cut?” It becomes “how much do we tax billionaires to get universal healthcare for all Americans”
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tooandto Mar 25, 2026 +1
Exact.. Unfortunately Emperor pedo ferret-head has 3 more years to finish the heritage foundation’s plan for a Christian fascist dictatorship, and they’re WAY ahead of schedule. I hope a blue wave midterms does something, but.. Tough to be optimistic. I assume the next Dem president will be a fully controlled puppet installed for electoral plausible deniability in the late 2030’s early 40’s. Probably one of his female spawn.
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donorcycle Mar 25, 2026 +3
I'm waiting for the ballots to be seized, and election fraud will be the reason given.
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YellowBabylonianSub Mar 25, 2026 +3
Two of three seats flipped, but only by a margin of 3-6 percent, combined (last i saw with 95 percent in). Definitely an improvement, but a long way to go before I’d say we’re turning things around for the better. And this is not the be a downer, but just a reality check for myself.
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caligaris_cabinet Mar 25, 2026 +12
3-6 points in a R+10 district is a solid win imo.
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Sminahin Mar 25, 2026 +1
That's what we said in 2008. People hate the system that's working against them. Until someone presents a convincing positive case and can sell it as an incumbent, we're fucked. If we keep running mild and inoffensive to not upset anyone, we're fucked. Given the current Dem establishment's complete inability to deliver that as an opposition party, we're probably fucked.
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The-Curiosity-Rover Mar 25, 2026 +42
Hard to overstate what a surprising flip this is. [Also](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5796708-florida-special-elections-trump-mar-a-lago/): > Florida’s #14th #Senate #District and 51st House District seats were both most recently held by Republicans and are expected to stay red. The 14th district was considered safely red. Right now, the Democrat in the 14th district is *narrowly* winning with 95% of the vote in.
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fox-mcleod Mar 25, 2026 +21
Reporting from the immediate future… [He won.](https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/03/24/florida-democrats-flip-two-seats-in-special-legislative-elections/)
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B-Z_B-S Mar 25, 2026 +94
The GOP is going to lose the midterms massively.
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Cheese0089 Mar 25, 2026 +88
In a fair election
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TheShipEliza Mar 25, 2026 +35
If things keep going like they are no level of shenanigans can stop it. In the two florida specials that flipped registered republican voters outnumbered dems. People are flipping.
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MiserableSlice1051 Mar 25, 2026 +2
People don't flip, people don't vote. This can be problematic when you are trying to do honest elections because votes can be faked by those who are identified as people who didn't vote.
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Lithium1978 Mar 25, 2026 +5
You'd think so, but I'm not holding my breath.
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Maruff1 Mar 25, 2026 +4
I'm betting for them to win based on some kind of BS....at least I'll have some cash.
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momob3rry Mar 25, 2026 +1
Trump is hoping if he gets the Save Act passed it’ll prevent Dems from winning.
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momob3rry Mar 25, 2026 +1
That’s why Trump is so desperate to get the Save Act passed.
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banjosbadfurday Mar 25, 2026 +20
All it took was \*gestures at everything* for Florida to begin to turn back blue, starting with Mar A Lago land.
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Zman734 Mar 25, 2026 +16
What is everyone using to see through paywalls these days? Archive Today has been blocked by "government authorities".
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IWantPizza555 Mar 25, 2026 +5
Not sure about the archive problem but here are results from a different site: [https://www.270towin.com/news/2026/03/24/live-results-march-24-florida-legislative-special-elections\_1798.html](https://www.270towin.com/news/2026/03/24/live-results-march-24-florida-legislative-special-elections_1798.html)
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forumaccount Mar 25, 2026 +1
Out of curiosity, what country are you in?
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Zman734 Mar 25, 2026 +1
USA
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LovelieLuna Mar 25, 2026 +14
DeSantis has called for a special legislative session from April 20–24, 2026, to redraw Florida's congressional districts. If they actually go through with it and stretch those districts even thinner they're just going to lose even more seats at this point.
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NotAnotherEmpire Mar 25, 2026 +9
Besides Florida GOP wondering what their base looks like, the ones who are really sweating these kind of results are the North Carolina GOP.  Their entire map at all levels is packed Dems and R+5 to R+9 structural districts. Florida is a much redder state for a bunch of reasons. If you can lose these...
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kswissreject Mar 25, 2026 +7
Oh god, that would be amazing to somehow flip NC state legislature. So horribly gerrymandered and then the Tricia Cotham traitor on top. If Wisconsin can turn the tide (slowly), so can NC. 
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ProfessionalInjury58 Mar 25, 2026 +1
Hong all the way!
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CulturalKing5623 Mar 25, 2026 +3
The win came in FL State Senate District 14.[That district has a population of ~557K, 80% of which is over the age of 18](https://censusreporter.org/profiles/61000US12014-state-senate-district-14-fl/) according to 2024 Census data. The Democratic nominee won with a little over 40k votes. There were just north of 80k votes in total. For a district of 450k+ adults. I really don't get it.
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4evercurioso Mar 25, 2026 +3
Go Palm Beach!!!
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4evercurioso Mar 25, 2026 +3
It’s the little things in life
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whomad1215 Mar 25, 2026 +1
51-49 trump won it by 11 points
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bck1999 Mar 25, 2026 +1
Haha
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ChickenSalad96 Mar 25, 2026 +1
ELI5. does this mean one less republican and one more Democrat in congress?
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Nanjag Mar 25, 2026 +2
No
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IWantPizza555 Mar 25, 2026 +1
No. Dems flipped two seats in Floridas house and Senate where Republicans have majoritys. https://www.270towin.com/news/2026/03/24/live-results-march-24-florida-legislative-special-elections_1798.html
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IM_KYLE_AMA Mar 25, 2026 -7
Don’t get too overhyped on this one. Trump won the district by 9pts in 2024 and Harris won the county by less than a point. While it’s always a great thing when a Dem flips any seat, federal, state, or otherwise, this doesn’t tell me a whole lot about the midterms.
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BaddDog07 Mar 25, 2026 +4
That’s still a pretty big swing in a very red state no?
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KnightlyDolphins Mar 25, 2026 +13
What a wet blanket
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IM_KYLE_AMA Mar 25, 2026 -2
Not trying to be. Just adding context.
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certifiedintelligent Mar 25, 2026 +12
What a wet context.
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