Democrat Emily Gregory narrowly won the special election for the district Tuesday night, The Associated Press projects. Trump carried the area in 2024.
Democrat Emily Gregory won a special election Tuesday for the Florida state House district that includes Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, flipping the seat from Republican control, The Associated Press projects.
Gregory beat Republican Jon Maples, whom Trump endorsed, in the race for a seat that has been vacant since August, when Mike Caruso resigned from the Legislature and was appointed Palm Beach County clerk.
Gregory had 51% of the vote to 49% for Maples with all precincts reporting.
Democrats have performed well in special elections during Trump’s second term, with the party pointing to those results as a sign of strength ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Florida’s 87th District is the 10th GOP-held state legislative seat Democrats have flipped around the country since Trump took office again last year. Republicans have not flipped any Democratic state legislative seats during that time.
God I hope this is a sign for the midterms.
Harris won this
districtcounty by .7% in the presidential election. This candidate won by a little more, but special elections / off year elections, the party out of power usually gets a little bump.Looks like this candidate won by 2.3%. So good sign, but you’d think that wars ICE murders would be worth more than 1.6%
Edit: county, not district.
Not why the article said Trump won by 11% in 2024. Looks like you’re right though.
Let’s see: There’s them saying ICE will be at polling stations, there’s the SAVE act, there’s the war in Iran which Trump believes can stop elections, there’s always the classic Insurrection Act and Martial Law, there’s them claiming 2020 was stolen and therefore federalizing the election process. And then the redistricting, ending Mail In Voting, gerrymandering, threats, Dominion voting machines now being owned by a MAGA former election official.
All of that and people still think we’re having free elections?
I’m getting tired of hearing this doomer sentiment. What’s your ultimate goal? Are you trying to convince people that it’s a lost cause to vote so you can tell us, “I told you so!” after the fact?
Apologies if I sound like I’m coming off doomer. I’m actually really not, I actually have a lot of hope and faith in the people, even if it seems hopeless right now. I think we get through this in community, mutual aid, resistance, and withholding our participation from the system.
I don’t think voting is going to change anything, not really… I still vote because I think it’s dumb not to, but I don’t expect to undo the master’s system with the master’s tools.
Nope! That’s why we need everyone who is able armed and doing their duty protecting the polls from, uh, stormy weather
Citizens militia y’all
Based AF, I love defending myself from stormy weather. You know I got that semiauto umbrella on me, and several more for extra rainy days.
I agree there is a lot to be worried about. But at the least it’s a good sign that the voters are turning out against Trump in a major way.
I don’t see any republican ever voting democrat, most of them seem too far gone into the echo chambers, which just keep growing and growing as they consolidate the media.
The only thing that may still break that path is the Iran war jacking gas prices so high that a substantial number of MAGAs abstain out of rage, otherwise goodbye America.
I’m wondering if poly market has odds for the US breaking up like the USSR in the next decade
Just keep in mind, Trump legitimately won 2024 and Biden legitimately won 2020. My parents are die hard republicans and will never vote for a democrat. They have not voted for president in the last 3 elections. That’s probably the best we can hope for. Especially in a midterm.
Who cares what a bunch of stupid addicts think?
Goes to show that even in Florida they’re sick of Trump and the Gross Old Pedophile party.
Not sick enough, one 51% of the vote. That means half the people there still like it.
True but what were the numbers last time?
Last time around this seat went republican 59.5% to 40.5%.
The don’t care about the diddling. It got personal when gas hit $5.
These aren’t Republicans voting Democrat, they are far too brainwashed for that.
What you’re seeing is Republicans staying home & the Independents abandoning the fascist GOP.
He even voted by mail for this one too, so he’s just going to run his usual bullshit of it all being rigged
I think it says somthing that in the last general election, this seat went republican 59.5% to 40.5%.
demolish it
That’s fucking hilarious lol
yay democrats, sure is better than voting third party
Unfortunately US election system is fucked, which means by voting a third party you just help the republicans to win
I am pretty sure repu licans also claim a vote for a third party is a vote for democrats
Yup, first rule of voting: Unless you have a Fetterman situation, dem >> 3rd party > no vote >>> repub
It really sucks to have a shitty neighbor.
It sucks even worse to have a shitty leader.
Who would’ve thunk these things still matter? Not billionaires, that’s who.
She a real democrat or a republican that ran as democrat? I see you Florida.
