Of Course Trump Was On The Ballot!

 

After Tuesday's election results showed a big Democratic wave across the country, from gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey, to elections in Georgia, California and elsewhere, the Malignant Fascist went on his sad social media platform and posted this:

As any sentient person knows, contrary to this post- election run for cover to avoid accountability, the Malignant Fascist was on the ballot, and Tuesday's results are a huge problem for the spineless sycophants who comprise his majority in Congress:

CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten on Thursday revealed how President Donald Trump proved to be harmful for GOP candidates in key election races.

“If there is any idea that Republicans are going to be able to outrun Donald Trump’s low approval ratings, this says, ‘Nuh-uh, they’re going to be like impalas getting chased down in the African desert by a big lion,’” said Enten in his analysis of CNN exit polling.

Enten highlighted 2025 exit poll data showing how 93% and 92% of those who disapproved of Trump voted for the Democratic gubernatorial nominees in New Jersey and Virginia, respectively.

Those figures are a jump from Trump’s first term in 2017 when 82% and 87% of those who disapproved of the president voted for the Democratic gubernatorial nominees in those two states.

Enten declared that Tuesday night’s results show Trump — who continues to face disastrous approval ratings in his second term — was an “absolute drag” on those candidates and likely was on those nationwide.

“If you are in a state where Donald Trump is underwater, you are in big, big trouble,” Enten said.

Moments later, Enten turned to several polls shared earlier this week that show Trump’s net approval rating (percent approval minus percent disapproval) is “down there with the Titanic.”

He went on to stress that the GOP was met with an “absolutely awful result” on Tuesday, noting that all three of Pennsylvania’s Democratic state Supreme Court justices won their retention races, and Georgia Democrats saw statewide wins in a nonfederal election for the first time “in a generation.”  (our emphasis)

Since he's incapable of admitting error, the narcissistic moron will likely continue his disastrous policies, including some bombastic actions designed to draw attention away from the increasingly damning Epstein- Trump files.  The danger, as his regime collapses in the polls, is that he'll do what every autocrat who needs to stay in power eventually does:  find an excuse to cancel or overturn elections, starting with the 2026 mid- terms.  Every Democratic official, candidate, or rank-and-file person must be thinking about and planning for that likelihood.  Knowing now that we're the powerful electoral majority in this country, resistance will be all the more important as we head into the next 12 months.

"The Biggest Loser"

 

We has a hard time choosing, so you get both:  Stephen Colbert reacts to Tuesday's big Democratic election sweep from a somewhat New York City perspective, while Jimmy Kimmel does the same from a somewhat California perspective.  Both somewhat hilarious.

Quotes Of The Day -- The Democratic Big Sweep

 

"... Both Trump and his administration are less interested in helping ordinary Americans than they are in fulfilling their idiosyncratic program of austerity, pain and deprivation. They are all stick, no carrot.

It’s against this backdrop that voters just went to the polls and cast millions of votes against the president by way of Democratic candidates, moderate and progressive, who stood for both affordability and the nation’s most cherished values, who pledged to use their time in office to protect their new constituents from the provocations and assaults coming from the government in Washington.

If these elections had gone the other way — if the Democratic Party had underperformed or even lost one of these contests — then every commentator under the sun would say, rightfully, that Democrats were in disarray; that even the president’s deep unpopularity couldn’t keep them afloat with voters.

But Tuesday was a Democratic victory. And the party didn’t just win — it won by commanding majorities on virtually every field of play. In polls, in focus groups and now at the ballot box, the public is telling us something very clearly: Trump is simply too much. If this is an opportunity for Democrats to win back lost ground — and it is — then it is also a warning to a Republican Party that has tied its entire identity to the man from Mar-a-Lago." --  Jamelle Bouie, NYT, concluding that Trump is an albatross around the neck of his rotted out party/ cult.

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"... If you look at recent Republican campaigns and positioning, it’s striking how much energy they’re putting into issues that just don’t matter much to ordinary Americans. Republicans may be obsessed with trans athletes, but most people aren’t. Polls and yesterday’s elections suggest that rants about the menace of illegal aliens have a lot less traction with the public than G.O.P. apparatchiks imagine — and that Americans don’t like the spectacle of masked ICE agents grabbing people off the street.

"This disconnect between party priorities and what matters to ordinary people seems to me like a much bigger deal than Democratic 'wokeness,' which was always exaggerated anyway.  [snip]

"Last night’s blue wave won’t stop MAGA’s attempt to consolidate authoritarian rule in America. If anything, they’ll redouble efforts to rig the 2026 midterms, although California, by approving a major redistricting, has largely neutralized their gerrymandering plot.

"A couple of months ago I noted that previous examples of autocrats who consolidated power after winning an election, from Hitler to Viktor Orban, did so while they were still popular. I asked whether a despised autocrat could do the same. After yesterday, it’s clear that Trump really is despised. Can he still end our democracy?

"I guess we’ll find out." -- Paul Krugman, in his eponymous Substack, on last night's historic Democratic victories coast-to-coast and which party is out of touch with voters.  Voters plainly said the poor Trump economy and the rising cost/ loss of health insurance were the two biggest issues in their minds, and Democrats are more trusted than MAGAt Republicans on both. 

The Big Sweep

 

Voters across the country delivered a strong message, maybe several, to the Malignant Fascist and his rotted out party/ cult:

New Jersey

Democratic nominee Mikie Sherrill was elected on Tuesday to be the 57th governor of New Jersey, defeating Jack Ciattarelli, a former state representative and Republican, in a race that suggested the resilience of the party after Donald Trump’s return to office.

The Associated Press called the race for Sherrill, a 53-year-old congresswoman from New Jersey’s 11th congressional district, just two hours after polls closed.

“I hear you, Jersey,” Sherrill said Tuesday night at her election party in East Brunswick, after walking out to a cheering crowd and Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run. “Good government doesn’t just manage problems, it solves them.”

The contest – one of only two gubernatorial races this year – drew national attention as a potential preview for what’s to come in the 2026 midterms and an early gauge of Trump’s standing with voters...

 

Virginia

Democrat Abigail Spanberger has been elected Virginia’s first female governor as her party racked up victories in key elections across the southern state.

An ex-CIA and federal law enforcement officer who served three terms in the US House of Representatives after flipping a GOP-held district, Spanberger was leading the state’s Republican lieutenant governor Winsome Earle-Sears 57% to 43%, with 89% of the vote counted, according to the Associated Press.

“We sent a message to every corner of the commonwealth, a message to our neighbors and our fellow Americans across the country,” Spanberger told supporters gathered at a convention center in the state capital, Richmond.

“We sent a message to the whole world that in 2025, Virginia chose pragmatism over partisanship. We chose our commonwealth over chaos.” [snip]

The AP reported that Ghazala Hashmi, a state Democratic senator, won the lieutenant governor’s race, becoming the first Muslim woman elected to a statewide office in the United States. Jay Jones, a Democratic former state delegate, ousted Jason Miyares, the Republican attorney general, even after the former’s campaign was rocked by the emergence of text message in which Jones mused about about a political rival receiving “two bullets to the head”.

And state Democrats appear on course to greatly expand their one-seat majority in the house of delegates. Though ballot counting was ongoing, they appeared to have flipped several Republican held districts in the 100-seat chamber....  (our emphasis)

 

New York City

Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani was elected on Tuesday as the 111th mayor of New York City, defeating the former governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa and making history as the city’s first Muslim mayor.

The 34-year-old democratic socialist and state assembly member from Queens, secured victory with more than 50% of the vote. Cuomo, 67, finished second with just over 40%, while Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa received just over 7% of the vote...

 

 

California

Voters in California on Tuesday approved a high-stakes redistricting measure, a national triumph for Democrats hoping to stop Donald Trump and Republicans from retaining full control of the federal government in next year’s midterm elections.

It was a decisive victory for Democrats in deep-blue California, who had raced to counter a gerrymander in Texas, engineered at the US president’s behest, to carve out new safe Republican districts. The Associated Press declared Proposition 50 had passed almost instantly when polls closed statewide.

“We stood stood firm in response to Donald Trump’s recklessness, and tonight, after poking the bear, this bear roared with unprecedented turnout in a special election with an extraordinary result,” Gavin Newsom, the California governor, who spearheaded the initiative said in a speech at the Democratic party headquarters in Sacramento.

Celebrating the parade of Democratic victories across the country, Newsom added: “We are proud here in California to be part of this narrative this evening.”...

 

 

Pennsylvania

Three liberal justices won another 10-year term on the Pennsylvania supreme court, giving Democrats a key victory and allowing them to maintain their 5-2 advantage on a vital body that could issue important rulings on abortion and voting rights in an important battleground state in the coming years.

In Pennsylvania, supreme court justices are first elected in partisan elections and then voters get to decide whether to retain them every 10 years in contests that are technically non-partisan. Three justices – Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty and David Wecht – were elected as Democrats in 2015.

The court since then has played a major role in election disputes, striking down the state’s severely gerrymandered map in 2018 and ruling in favor of Pennsylvania voters in disputes about mail-in ballot rules...

Issues

 

Looking at those top issue numbers, it would appear voters are more concerned with the cost of food on the table and paying more for or losing their health care than they are about the MAGAt Republican- generated hategasm against immigrants and about crime (not) running rampant in our (not) burning cities.  You can bet, being the fascist cult that they are, they'll just double down.  After yesterday, we know we have the numbers to stop them and, hopefully, the courage, brains, and fortitude to do just that.