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Oh, Mommy! It’s a Blue-Nami!!
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Source: Santa Fe Reporter

A blue tsunami just hit the United States. It began on the East Coast, with the defeat of GOP senate candidates in both the Carolinas, and with a stunningly close run by the Democratic senate and gubernatorial candidates in Florida; and it quickly made its way west. By the time it hit the Pacific states, the tsunami had flipped at least seven GOP senate seats, with more potentially to come—Mississippi, Nebraska and Alaska still hadn’t yet been called as of this writing. The tsunami toppled nearly one quarter of the GOP-held congressional seats. It flipped the governorships of Georgia, Ohio and Texas–three of the most important Electoral College states in the country come the 2028 presidential election. And, as it thundered across the country, it led to huge gains for Democratic slates for state legislatures, even in heavily gerrymandered states such as Texas and North Carolina. Expand Rachel Mills In state after state, Democrats saw double-digit gains as the MAGA coalition crumbled.
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