EARTHQUAKE: Republicans suffer HUGE LOSS in special election

Some breaking news here at Democrat. Taylor Remit just flipped a seat in the. Texas State Senate's 9th District, a. seat that went for Donald Trump by a. staggering 17 points in 2024 and went. for the Republican candidate by 20. points in 2022. Now going for the. Democrat by over 14 points, meaning this. is a 31% overperformance by the Democrat. in this Texas seat. In other words, this. is not a purple seat. This is a ruby red. safe seat that has been in Republican. control since 1991, which is now blue.

And here's what's even crazier. Look at. the spending differential in this race. The top candidate is the Republican, the. bottom candidate the Democrat. Look at. the difference in expenditures. The fact. that Republicans had that much of an. advantage over the Democrats and yet. Remit still won goes to show the massive. amount of enthusiasm on the left or the. anemic enthusiasm on the right. Either. way, doesn't exactly bode well for the. GOP as we head toward midterms. I should. note very quickly that I'll be covering. every race between now and midterms, all. the special elections. So if you'd like.

to follow along and support independent. media in the process, the best way to do. that is to subscribe to this channel, which is and always will be 100% free. Just hit the subscribe button. Now, here's the thing. This seat in Texas. isn't some isolated fluke. It is the. latest data point in what is becoming an. undeniable trend. Democrats are. overperforming everywhere. In November's. general election just a few months back, Democrats dominated. They won the New. Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races. by double digits. They flipped their. first non-federal statewide offices in.

Georgia in nearly 20 years. They passed. a massive redistricting ballot measure. in California despite early doubts by a. staggering 2/3 margin. They retained the. State Supreme Court majority in. Pennsylvania, which is another state. that Trump won in 2024. And venturing. into even redder territory, there's. Tennessee's high-profile 7th. Congressional District just a few months. back where Democrats came within nine. points of winning a Congressional seat. in a district that Trump won by 22. points. and where former Republican. lawmaker Mark Green had won by 21.

points. A 22-point Trump district became. a nine-point race. There's a 13-point. swing there toward the Democrats. According to CNN, Democrats over. performed by double digits in every. single special election for the House. held in 2025. Every single one. In fact, 2025 special elections account for five. of Democrats' 15 biggest over. performances since Trump first became. president in 2017, nearly a decade ago, across more than three dozen special. elections. Now, in terms of why.

Democrats are cleaning up in special. elections and general elections alike, even in deep red districts, is because. voters are waking up to the bill of. goods that they've been sold. Remember, Trump ran on one central promise, affordability. He was going to lower. costs on day one. That was the pitch. Vote for me and your groceries will be. cheaper, your gas will be cheaper, everything's going to be more. affordable. And what happened? The exact. opposite. According to the Bureau of. Labor Statistics, grocery prices have. risen since Trump took office in. January. Consumer prices overall are up.

during Trump's second term. Inflation is. down only 2/10 of a point since Biden. left office, none of which, of course, is going to stop Trump from lying about. it. He claims constantly that grocery. prices are way down. They're not, they're up. He claims that inflation is. at 2%. It's not, it's at 3%. He claims. that gas prices are almost $2. They're. over $3 nationally. And even as Trump. denies reality, the typical American. household is now spending $208 more per. month to buy the same goods and services.

as they did in September of 2024, according to Moody's Analytics. That is. 208 bucks more per month. And when you. zoom out even further, the typical. household is spending over a thousand. dollars more per month than they did at. the start of 2021. A thousand dollars. per month more than when the greatest. defender of high prices in history, Joseph R. Biden, was president. Everything Trump trashed Biden on, as. far as affordability is concerned, just. remember that Donald Trump is literally. more expensive than that guy. But it's. not just that costs have come down.

Donald Trump is actively making things. worse with his tariffs. For example, the. Tax Foundation estimated that his. tariffs have raised the average American. household's cost by 1,200 bucks per. year, and that number is expected to. rise to $1,600 this year. The average. tariff rate has jumped from 2.4% before. Trump came back to the White House to. 28% at its peak. That is a massive tax. increase on working American families, because remember, we are the ones who. pay those tariffs. And Trump has the. audacity to stand there and tell people. that affordability is a con job by the.

Democrats. And frankly, voters aren't. buying it. They're seeing through the. which is exactly why Democrats. are surging. Which is to say nothing of. the fact that there's ICE raids and. extrajudicial killings and threats to go. to war with Greenlands and this. relentless focus on himself and his. ballroom and his jets. This guy does not. give a flying about regular people. And yet Trump's response to all of this. has been to deny reality and double down. on his lies. Here are some of the latest. comments he made on affordability. >> No, but they they caused the problem.

>> [applause]. >> And then they came up, you know, it's a. word that they came up with, affordability. Every time you hear the. word, remember, they're the ones that. caused the problem. And uh. I first time you heard about it was like. a few months ago. This election's all. about affordability. Well, they're the. ones that caused the problem. But nobody. knows that. You know, people forget. So, they say, "Oh, affordability, let's. vote for the Democrats." It's no, affordability, they caused a tremendous.

price increases. It was caused by the. worst inflation we've ever had. And they come up with this word. affordability. And I saw it even. Although you're not hearing it so much. anymore. You know why? Cuz the prices. are coming down so much. >> But while he claims that affordability. is suddenly a Democrat hoax or Democrat. scam, people know what they pay at the. grocery store. They know what their rent. costs. They know whether they can afford. health care or child care or food, and. they're tired, frankly, of being gaslit. by a president who lives in a.

gold-plated penthouse and golfs at his. own resorts while they're scraping by. And here's the other thing. Trump isn't. just hurting Americans financially, he's. also enriching himself in the process, which obviously does not go unviewed by. Americans. So, while families are. spending an extra 200 bucks per month. just to get by, Trump is showering. himself in gold and crypto, profiting. off the presidency, using his office to. line his own pockets while ordinary. Americans suffer. And voters are. noticing. So, look, the Texas race is. important not just because Democrats.

won, but because of what it signals. moving forward. It signals that voters. are fed up, that they are paying. attention, that they're holding Trump. and Republicans accountable for breaking. their promises, and it signals that. Democrats have found a winning message, which is to focus on affordability, call. out Republicans' hypocrisy, and meet. voters where they are. Because here's. the reality. Trump promised to make. America affordable again, and instead, he's made it more expensive. He promised. to lower costs, and instead, he's raised. them with his tariffs. He promised to. deliver for working families, and.

instead, he's delivered for himself and. his pals. And voters in Texas and Miami, Tennessee, New Jersey, Virginia, everywhere else are starting to see. through it. So, as Trump continues to do. everything but deliver for Americans, it. is him and his party that are suffering. the consequences. And given the fact. that Trump can't seem to ever help. himself, it looks like this result in. Texas may very well be a preview of. what's to come this November. >> [music]. >> Before you go, if you enjoyed this. content and you want to see more and.

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