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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Iowa Democrat Catelin Drey won a major upset on Tuesday night, flipping a deep-red seat in the state Senate and breaking the GOP's supermajority in the chamber. Drey defeated Republican Christopher Prosch by a wide 55-45 margin in a district Donald Trump carried by 11 points last year. It's the second conservative district that Iowa Republicans have lost in the legislature this year, and the results will further buoy Democratic hopes for similar victories in contests for governor and the U.S. Senate in 2026.

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Iowa Democrat Catelin Drey won a major upset on Tuesday night, flipping a deep-red seat in the state Senate and breaking the GOP's supermajority in the chamber. Drey defeated Republican Christopher Prosch by a wide 55-45 margin in a district Donald Trump carried by 11 points last year.

No wonder the disgusting orange rapist is so hell-bent on gerrymandering in red state cesspools.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-08-27 03:40 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Texas is now regretting the decision to screw with the maps.

By drawing up five districts they think they can win, they created eleven districts they can lose.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-08-27 09:48 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Let's hope this portends things to come...

OCU

#3 | Posted by OCUser at 2025-08-27 11:56 AM | Reply

Democrats should focus a lot more on red leaning states like Iowa. Farmers are an easy target, and Democrats actually have a good record of supporting farmers. Despite what c()ntservatives have to say about it.

Soybean farmers have exported over one billion bushels of soybeans to China every year going back to, wait for it..., the last time Trump was in office.

Farmers are losing around a thousand dollars an acre. Farms in North Dakota can cover thousands of acres, so the loss is in the millions. Per farm.

The solution will have to be government welfare. Farmers will take it, but they'd rather farm and sell their produce.

Give them solid solutions to improve their situation, which is easy because all that has to be promised is going back to how it was before Trump.

The Dem old farts to need retire, and progressives need to let Democrats in red states run their campaigns without worrying about if they're progressive enough. If some Dems in the Midwest or Plains are anti-abortion or religious or like guns, deal with it and STFU.

It is so easy right now to explain the poor situation we're in and provide simple solutions without even mentioning Trump's name. And, FFS, stop lecturing people.

This is the way for Dems to beat MAGA. In the trenches.

Bernie knows this.

#4 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-08-27 01:02 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

If some Dems in the Midwest or Plains are anti-abortion or religious or like guns, deal with it and STFU.

Candidates need to do whatever they think their constituents want and need. However, there are some basic policies fundamental to being a democrat. "Triangulation" is what confuses people. Democratic candidates must run on principles important to their base and not seek to shift to the middle during a general election. All this does is alienate the base and reduces their turn out. And, what's even worse is dems being unable to get their agendas passed because of DINOs like Kyrsten Sinemaand Joe Manchin. Democratic voters say why should we vote for dems if they can't get anything done?

I think non MAGA conservative voters are so pissed with Trump and republicans that they will hold their noses and vote democratic or simply stay home. Either way, the odds of getting elected improve for the democratic candidate.

#5 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2025-08-27 02:33 PM | Reply

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