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Democrats flip county Donald Trump won by nearly 60 points
(www.newsweek.com)
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I think some helpful context here is that Beshear got 44.9% of the vote in this same county in the 2019 race that he narrowly won. This time he got 52.3%.
In the popular vote, Beshear received 2,626 votes in that county in 2019 and 2,205 votes this election.
He won a greater percentage but had fewer overall votes? Sounds like Republicans are disillusioned and didn’t show up to the polls.
Good.
rEd wAvE
Don't worry, as soon as Republicans can, they'll be gerrymandering
The fear is they only show up for trump. And will when the time comes. I think that fear is valid. Low engagement voters either don’t mind trump, or they love trump, and they will show up in much greater numbers in the general.
Yes, that’s a totally valid concern.