Trump Hit With Staggering Humiliation on His Own Turf
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Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Trending Now More than 400 state legislative districts that voted for Trump went blue. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images The dramatic…
The dramatic shift in Donald Trump country going blue is coming into clearer focus with an astronomical number of state legislative districts that had previously voted for the president electing Democrats.
The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC) revealed on Thursday that a whopping more than 400 Trump-won districts in 2024 flipped to blue in the midterms.
It came despite Trump begging voters to pretend he was on the ballot and urging them to vote for Republicans across the ticket, but voters rejected MAGA in record numbers on November 3.
The DLCC has flipped more than 550 seats this year alone in a move that will reshape the political landscape at the state level for years to come.
Democrats flipped majorities in 12 state legislative chambers and broke 13 Republican supermajorities in the midterms.
It has resulted in the party also picking up six new trifectas where Democrats control both chambers and the governor’s mansion, including in battleground states Trump won, like Michigan and Pennsylvania.
“Donald Trump came into office with Republicans holding a significant advantage in our statehouses, but that advantage now lies in ruins as DLCC has shattered GOP control all across the country,” said DLCC President Heather Williams. “Building on a decade of progress, we flipped more than 400 Trump seats this year in a firm repudiation of the MAGA agenda.”
She argued that Republicans losing a massive number of state legislative seats, after decades of investments, will forever be part of Trump’s legacy.
For the first time since 2010, Democrats control the majority of legislative chambers, after Republicans seized control during the Tea Party wave, a precursor to MAGA.
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