Democrat Close to Flipping House Seat Deep in Trump Country

https://newrepublic.com/post/203756/trump-panics-democrat-aftyn-behn-flip-house-seat-tennessee-special-election-poll

28 comments

  1. Canadians miss y’all … hope you make the right decision 💪

  3. Slightly offtopic

    Is it too much to hope for Texas redistribution to bite them in the ass?

  4. Crossing fingers, toes, noodley appendages. Not voting cause I don’t live there

  5. Aftyn Behn (who the article is about) is only polling 2% behind the Republican candidate–within the margin of error–in a district (TN-7) that Trump won by 22% in 2024.

  6. Is today the last day? When will we see results?

  9. This is exactly what the GOP is terrified of. When Democrats actually show up with real policy solutions instead of culture war nonsense, even deep red districts start paying attention. Behn’s focus on affordability and anti-corporate messaging is clearly resonating where it matters most.

  10. >Van Epps is the Trump-endorsed former commissioner of the Tennessee Department of General Services and an Army helicopter pilot running on issues like “the woke left’s push for gender surgeries and mutilation on minors,” making sure America “never abandons” Israel, and “advancing President Trump’s America First agenda: keeping our borders secure, rebuilding our military strength, protecting American workers, and restoring the values that make our nation great.”

    It’s so fucking dumb bumfuck nowhere Tennessee running with those kinds of issues where most shouldn’t even affect them gets so much votes

  12. Even if she does not win (and I hope she does), a close race indicates a broad dissatisfaction with Cheeto Mussolini. And that’s a good thing.

  14. I’m not getting my hopes up. You shouldn’t either. It’s Tennessee

  15. Goddamn if this doesn’t give me some hope in these bleak timez

  18. Sitting here in Clarksville with my in-laws watching NCIS and every commercial break was 3-5 attack ads against Aftyn. Gobs of money out here.

  19. With the way special elections have been breaking can’t imagine the GOP is comfortable seeing a 2 pt lead in polling.

  20. I feel like a Taylor Swift or a Dolly Parton endorsement would make it a certain win!

  21. Didn’t green the last guy that held the seat win by 20 something percent. Democrats getting within 10 points is their best case scenario.

  22. >Van Epps is the Trump-endorsed former commissioner of the Tennessee Department of General Services and an Army helicopter pilot running on issues like “the woke left’s push for gender surgeries and mutilation on minors,” making sure America “never abandons” Israel, and “advancing President Trump’s America First agenda: keeping our borders secure, rebuilding our military strength, protecting American workers, and restoring the values that make our nation great.”

    So, what would they actually do for the state then? Culture war bullshit doesn’t pass a balanced budget and certainly doesn’t address the needs of their constituents. It’s running on a policy platform of telling people they should be upset about things (many of which aren’t even happening) while ignoring their actual needs or even deliberately acting against their interests.

    Hopefully people are catching on to their hollow rhetoric (though I’m not holding my breath).

  23. Just remember that even if you can’t vote for Aftyn Behn, you can still donate to her campaign before the election next week! 

  24. This,seat was >20 R last 2 elections… So HUGE swing

  25. If we (Dems) can manage to resist certain self-destructive urges when it comes to choosing candidates, we might win a lot more elections coming up.

  28. It must’ve been hard for Trump to write Epps without his autocorrect making it Epstein

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