TPM: Democrats Won Everywhere on Tuesday

Thursday, November 06, 2025

Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo: The clearest read of what happened last night is that, as far as I can tell, Democrats won every race that was in meaningful contention anywhere in the country. That's not just high-profile races in New York, New Jersey and Virginia or the redistricting proposition in California. It goes way down into races only obsessives or local observers were watching in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Mississippi and a bunch of other places. Democrats won everywhere, and just about everywhere they won by larger margins than even optimists were expecting.

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Surprisingly quiet after Trumpanzee's rather bizarre concession speech the other night. He's expecting waaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy too much out of the same pack of suckups who failed to deliver an alternative to "Obamacare" in over a decade after its inception in 2014...

#1 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-11-06 09:58 AM | Reply

If there is a free and fair election this time next year, Trump and MAGA are finished.

Sine they know that, they will sell their souls to Satan to make sure that it is anything but.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-11-06 10:03 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"bUt It wAsN't a bLuE WaVe"

#3 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-11-06 10:08 AM | Reply

He's expecting waaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy too much out of the same pack of suckups who failed to deliver an alternative to "Obamacare" in over a decade after its inception in 2014

Because they are perfectly happy letting lower middle class people who do not have employer provided health care suffer and die. Any alternative to ACA would require spending on tax money on anything other than war and they will not do that.

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-11-06 10:10 AM | Reply

Please don't start the blue wave s*&^. That's like W standing in front of "Mission Accomplished."

It's one election in an off year. While it might be a sign of momentum building, it's far too early for back pats and is really a sign that effort needs to increase, messaging needs to learn and improve and those who want change from our current nightmare need to dig deeper and entrench themselves further in the long fight.

There's a lot of damage that can be done in the next year and one year is a TON of time for a lawless administration to kneecap free and fair elections in next year's midterms.

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2025-11-06 10:53 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

BWAAAAAAAAAAAA

it's not quiet where I'm reading.

but then I also read in places not under threat

of dismissal for disagreeing.

#6 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-11-06 11:00 AM | Reply

#5 | Posted by jpw

BWAAAAAAAAA I understand your concern,

you think taxpayer paid trans surgery...
letting illegals in to rape and murder women
and children while getting 2 and 3 times more
benefits than americans ...who youre crying about
being off snap....IS NORMAL and just.....and your only response
will be STFU.

#7 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-11-06 11:04 AM | Reply

^ ^ ^ STD's version of MAGA Haiku. ^ ^ ^
Multiple lines, unlimited syllables, no meter or rhyme, mostly unintelligible, some words in ALL CAPS.

Q: What is the sound of one MAGA hand clapping?
A: CLAP CLAP CLAP BROWN PEOPLE ARE COMING TO RAPE YOUR BABIES!!!!! CLAP CLAP CLAP

MAGA Koan: If a mail-in ballot is in the forest and an evil baby raping liberal isn't around to collect it, does it still get counted?

MAGA Buddhist philosophy: In order to eliminate suffering we need to make EVERYONE SUFFER and teach them that it is just the price one pays for simply existing.

#8 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2025-11-06 11:27 AM | Reply

1 | Posted by RightisTrite a

what's quiet is any thread or comment around here
about the new AG that wants to murder gop AND THEIR CHILDREN.

BUT AGAIN...scum sucking trash are okay with that.

#9 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-11-06 11:31 AM | Reply

more blood libel from the ------.

#10 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-11-06 11:41 AM | Reply

#7 | Posted by shrimptacodan

Spoon fed nonsense that doesn't reflect a single living person's actual views and opinions.

Stop being a gullible fool.

#11 | Posted by jpw at 2025-11-06 11:49 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

what's quiet is any thread or comment around here
about the new AG that wants to murder gop AND THEIR CHILDREN.
BUT AGAIN...scum sucking trash are okay with that.

#9 | Posted by shrimptacodan

Dude is having a meltdown.

This is hilarious.

#12 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-11-06 11:50 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#11

That's not quite true. Gender-affirming care should absolutely be part of normal healthcare, and healthcare should be a responsibility of the government.

Not all gender-affirming care is surgery, but surgery should absolutely be covered as part of Medicare for All.

#13 | Posted by DarkVader at 2025-11-06 12:29 PM | Reply

what's quiet is any thread or comment around here
about the new AG that wants to murder gop AND THEIR CHILDREN.

BUT AGAIN...scum sucking trash are okay with that.

#9 | Posted by shrimptacodan

Because we don't freak out over your fake news like "millions of illegal voters" "children identifying as cats" or "obama's fake birth certificate."

#14 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-11-06 12:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 6

Conservatives are always getting upset over things they made up.

#15 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-11-06 12:33 PM | Reply

about the new AG that wants to murder gop AND THEIR CHILDREN.

Who refuses to fund SNAP again?

Oh, yeah...the ------- you voted for.

#16 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-11-06 12:36 PM | Reply

www.huffpost.com

#17 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-11-06 12:43 PM | Reply

"while getting 2 and 3 times more benefits than americans ."

Why does Republican Math demand so many lies from its users???

#18 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-11-06 12:57 PM | Reply

Maybe Bo@ss can shut his ------- ignorant pie-hole for 10 seconds.

#19 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-11-06 01:06 PM | Reply

#8... reason 1785 why Trump won, and why the Democrats will take a slam dunk election in 2028 and flush it down the toilet.

#20 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2025-11-06 01:10 PM | Reply

Democrats will take a slam dunk election in 2028 and flush it down the toilet.

#20 | POSTED BY KWRX25

We'll see won't we?

That's your opinion of course and you are welcome to it.

Sounds like what you want to happen. What you hope will happen.

Everyone needs a dream to follow.

You obviously hope Republicans will help you with that dream.

So far they are not doing so well in convincing America that they are worthy or even capable of wisely using the power that comes with the office.

So.. Good luck with that.

#21 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-11-06 01:23 PM | Reply

Who refuses to fund SNAP again?

Pedo47 went so far as to order grocery stores to NOT OFFER DISCOUNTS to SNAP families whose benefits were cut in half.

He wants them starving so they'll put pressure on their reps to allow him to strip health insurance away.

He is vile corrupt scum and anyone who supports this are at the same level.

#22 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-11-06 01:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

fake news like "millions of illegal voters" "children identifying as cats" or "obama's fake birth certificate."

It really is astonishing the level of complete utter nonsense these rubes will accept from a documented compulsive liar.

#23 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-11-06 01:33 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#21, No, If I got my wish a third party candidate would run and win. I do subscribe to both parties are the same, they both suck.

#24 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2025-11-06 02:49 PM | Reply

Democrats win when Elon isn't involved.

#25 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-11-06 03:05 PM | Reply

I do subscribe to both parties are the same, they both suck.

#24 | POSTED BY KWRX25

Perhaps they do both "suck".

But one party obviously "sucks" way worse than the other.

And so we vote for the lesser of two evils.

It's pretty much always been that way in America.

The third party candidate is what ensured a social democrat named Mamdani would become Mayor of NYC.

Perhaps you will get to vote for Mamdani when he runs for president on the democratic/socialist platform.

Assuming we do get to vote for President ever again.

#26 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-11-06 03:13 PM | Reply

"they will sell their souls to Satan to make sure that it is anything but."

They have already done that.

Now they are offering your soul and my soul and the Soul of America to Satan to hold onto power. For powers sake.

#27 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-11-06 03:18 PM | Reply

#8... reason 1785 why Trump won, and why the Democrats will take a slam dunk election in 2028 and flush it down the toilet.

#20 | Posted by kwrx25

Slam dunk? Are you saying republicans are doing that terrible of a job?

#28 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-11-06 03:26 PM | Reply

I do subscribe to both parties are the same, they both suck.

#24 | POSTED BY KWRX25

Which party ended the peaceful transition of power?

#29 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-11-06 03:26 PM | Reply

IMO Mamdani was not smart enough to look into NYC's financial state before promising all those freebies.

GOOGLE AI Overview

Debt burden: New York City has one of the highest municipal debt burdens in the nation, primarily due to its capital needs and reliance on bonds to finance projects.
Debt service: In fiscal year 2020, debt service costs for city-supported debt were slightly below 11% of tax revenues.

#30 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-11-06 10:19 PM | Reply

#30

Racist much?

He's a pretty smart guy actually... lots smarter than people who are happy paying Trump's Tax/Tariffs.

#31 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-06 10:27 PM | Reply

#30 | Posted by MSgt

Funny how you care so much about the debt of a city you don't live in, while you applaud the debt incurred nationwide to give tax cuts to billionaires.

#32 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-11-06 11:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

As expected, Republicans, Islamophobes, AIPAC-ers, TV tumors, and trolls on drudge.com have begun their useless attacks against Zohran Mamdani in earnest.

Blah-blah-blah.

While these poltroons demonize Zohran Mamdani, the discussion moves away from the Jeffrey Epstein files, Putin's inhuman onslaught against Ukraine, America's unsafe skies during the Republican Party government shutdown, Israel's vicious pogrom against the Palestinians, Dummkopf Trumpf's increasing dementia and unpopularity, the increase in food insecurity in the US thanks to Trumpf, and American aggression against Venezuela or Colombia.

But go ahead trolls, waste somebody else's time on drudge.com attacking Zohran. Me, I just use *killfile.*

drudge.com

#33 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-07 12:06 AM | Reply

#29 and?... Great example of the right sucking

#34 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2025-11-07 09:47 AM | Reply

Here's a hint, dumbass.... they're not the same.

#35 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-11-07 12:15 PM | Reply

Funny how you care so much about the debt of a city you don't live in, while you applaud the debt incurred nationwide to give tax cuts to billionaires.

#32 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY AT 2025-11-06 11:32 PM | FLAG: | NEWSWORTHY 2: We all got tax cuts, unless you are one of those whose income is so low that you do not have to pay federal income taxes.

#36 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-11-07 12:28 PM | Reply

"We all got tax cuts"

Did the tax cuts increase the debt?

#37 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-07 12:29 PM | Reply

#29 and?... Great example of the right sucking

#34 | Posted by kwrx25

Well since they suck EQUALLY then you can point out the times when democrats chose to attack democracy and harm the nation instead of admitting an election loss, right? RIGHT?

#38 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-11-07 12:56 PM | Reply

#32 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY AT 2025-11-06 11:32 PM | FLAG: | NEWSWORTHY 2: We all got tax cuts, unless you are one of those whose income is so low that you do not have to pay federal income taxes.

#36 | Posted by MSgt

You got hush money for keeping your mouth shut about the actual tax cuts that went to the rich. Trump is quite experienced in handing out hush money.

#39 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-11-07 12:57 PM | Reply

We all got tax cuts, unless you are one of those whose income is so low that you do not have to pay federal income taxes.

#36 | Posted by MSgt

This little b*&^% is so beaten and abused he takes his paltry crumbs and goes and sits in the corner while those at the table feast.

#40 | Posted by jpw at 2025-11-07 01:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Moms For Liberty

0-for-31 on contested races this cycle.

Literally ANYTIME they were against another candidate, they lost.

#41 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-11-07 02:37 PM | Reply

Gender-affirming care should absolutely be part of normal healthcare, and healthcare should be a responsibility of the government.

Jesus,

We have to make sure idiots like this never get elected or are in control of any American's money.

I cant believe people who genuinely think like this exist. I'm starting to believe we really do need to separate here in the U.S.

#42 | Posted by boaz at 2025-11-07 02:37 PM | Reply

We all got tax cuts, unless you are one of those whose income is so low that you do not have to pay federal income taxes.

#36 | Posted by MSgt

The hell you did.

I got a tax cut. YOU got a tax hike.

Unless you are making close to $200K, you got a tax HIKE.

#43 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-11-07 02:39 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I cant believe people who genuinely think like this exist. I'm starting to believe we really do need to separate here in the U.S.

#42 | Posted by boaz

Tell me about it. The smart americans can't flourish when tied to millions of morons who still think the 2020 election was stolen and pardoning George Santos was smart.

#44 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-11-07 02:41 PM | Reply

One thing that surprised me was the good state of Pennsylvania.

Usually elections in that swing state are won by less than five percentage points.

Yet this week, Democrats there won most of their races by a dozen or so percentage points.

It is probably a bit too early for detailed analysis, but my first guess is that the Independents there may have swung strongly towards the Democrat candidates.

#45 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-07 02:42 PM | Reply

BWAAA sure....all over the place blue scum stayed blue scum.........

best of all was NYC where not 24 hours after the little puke was out BEGGING FOR MONEY.

--"Oh, and one more thing. Remember how I told you a few months ago to stop sending us money? You can start again. This transition requires staff, research, and an infrastructure that can meet this moment. And it will be made possible by the people who built and believe in this movement.
So I hope you'll make a donation at transition2025.com. Now let's get to work."

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA SUCKERS !!!

#46 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-11-07 03:12 PM | Reply

-------------, you nazi filth lost seats in Mississippi. Lol

#47 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-07 03:17 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Mamdani's transition committee raises over $500,000 in first 30 hours, outpacing Adams and De Blasio

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani reeled in over half a million dollars in just over a day since launching his transition committee.

The committee received $517,947.30 from 7,028 donors, with an average donation of just below $80. Mayor Eric Adams and former Mayor Bill de Blasio took a month to raise $1 million and $600,000, respectively.

www.washingtonexaminer.com

#48 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-11-07 03:26 PM | Reply

With the exception of Mississippi (a state none of you even care about) it was wins in blue states. What a miracle!

#49 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-11-07 04:45 PM | Reply

With the exception of Mississippi (a state none of you even care about) it was wins in blue states. What a miracle!

#49 | Posted by lfthndthrds

So your argument is swing voters moving to dems in blue states doesn't imply what swing voters will do in any other states?

#50 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-11-07 06:11 PM | Reply

#49...'Tis like shooting fish in a barrel ...

-> Georgia voters ousted two Republican members of the state's Public Service Commission in favor of two Democrats"the first Democrats to win statewide nonfederal offices in decades.

-> Democrats in Mississippi Break the G.O.P.'s State House Supermajority

-> Every single county in Virginia - even deeply red counties - saw shifts TOWARDS the Democrats, as opposed to how they voted 1 year ago.

-> Dems flip Wichita School Board from a 4-3 GOP majority to a 5-2 Democratic majority. Democratic candidates Amy Warren and Amy Jensen defeated Republican incumbents Hazel Stabler and Kathy Bond.

->Two of Tuesday's school board elections were in Bucks County, Pa., which was considered "ground zero" for right-wing groups' takeover of school boards in 2021. A few years ago, conservatives on these boards in Pennbridge and Central Bucks districts were using their roles to pass policies targeting LGBTQ+ students and banning books.

---> Democrats flipped control of both boards in 2023, and on Tuesday, they ousted every Republican from both of these boards, except for one. The Pennbridge school board is now 8-1, with Democratic members in control. The Central Bucks school board is 9-0.

-> In Texas, we even won in Lockhart, which sits in a district so red that Democrats normally don't even run. We had a clean sweep in Cy-Fair ISD, another deeply red area that not even Greg Abbott could save your party.

-> In SD-9, another red district, we saw an 8 point shift for the Democrat

#51 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-07 06:45 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

@#49 ... With the exception of Mississippi (a state none of you even care about) it was wins in blue states. ...

Pres Trump carried Pennsylvania in 2024.

Why did the Democrat candidates seem to win with a dozen percentage point lead in 2025?

And yeah, Dems even won in Mississippi, as your current trolling alias notes.

#52 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-07 07:33 PM | Reply

@#51 ... 'Tis like shooting fish in a barrel ... ...

I agree.

But I also have to ask, how will the Dems work with this major election win going forward?

Will they suffer their usual messaging problems going into 2026, and shoot themselves in the foot, again?

#53 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-07 07:39 PM | Reply

But I also have to ask, how will the Dems work with this major election win going forward?
Will they suffer their usual messaging problems going into 2026, and shoot themselves in the foot, again?

#53 | Posted by LampLighter

"A liberal populist who opposes israel won! Let's do the opposite of all of that so we can keep losing! Maybe we can convince hillary to run again..."
-DNC

#54 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-11-07 08:02 PM | Reply

@#54 ... "A liberal populist who opposes israel won! ...

That's quite interesting.

NYC has the largest Jewish population outside Israel.

And Mayor-elect Mamdani seems to have won, approximately 30-40% of their votes, based upon exit polling.

#55 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-07 08:12 PM | Reply

A liberal populist who opposes israel won! ...

That's quite interesting.
NYC has the largest Jewish population outside Israel.
#55 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

It's not that interesting.

Israel is a country.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Jewish people live in countries around the world.

To assume all Jews must love Israel is an absurd concept.

One this recent war has helped illustrate.

Carrying out a genocide while claiming to be victims of antisemitism is quite the interesting trick.

#56 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-11-07 08:19 PM | Reply

@#56 ... It's not that interesting. ...

Yeah, I think it is.

... To assume all Jews must love Israel is an absurd concept. ...

I didn't refer to "all Jews." I mentioned that NYC has the largest Jewish population outside of Israel.

And, fwiw, from what I've seen on the local TV, Mr Cuomo got 60-70% of the Jewish vote.

History of the Jews in New York City
en.wikipedia.org

... Jews compose approximately 12% of New York City's population, making the Jewish community the largest in the world outside of Israel. As of 2020, over 960,000 Jews lived in the five boroughs of New York City,[1] and over 1.9 million Jews lived in the New York metropolitan area, approximately 25% of the American Jewish population.[2]

Nearly half of the city's Jews live in Brooklyn.[3][4] ...

#57 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-07 08:29 PM | Reply

"Gender-affirming care should absolutely be part of normal healthcare, and healthcare should be a responsibility of the government."

We have to make sure idiots like this never get elected or are in control of any American's money.
#42 | Posted by boaz

Boaz doesn't understand that when men take Viagra or testosterone supplements, that's gender affirming care.

Boaz doecbt understand when a woman gets Botox or a boob job, that's gender affirming care.

#58 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-07 11:24 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Rogaine and other hair growth formulas: Gender affirming care for men.

#59 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-07 11:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#58 ... Boaz doesn't understand ...

I agree. That current alias just seems to regurgitate what it is told, without any manner of understanding.

It reminds me of a discussion I had with an Exec VP of a D&B Top Ten corporation that I worked for back in the day.

The Exec VP told me that he likes to hire military officers for positions because they just follow orders, without questioning the orders. As he went on to say, i.e., they do what they are told to do.

#60 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-07 11:35 PM | Reply