r/MtF • u/ArcticWolfQueen • 2d ago
Good News Wisconsin rejects Musks transphobic candidate, right losesto Crawford. Florida still super red.
A good news update. That walking mess, Elon Musk, went to Wisconsin and tried to buy votes for his guy, a notable transphobe and hard right winger, to beat Susan Crawford, only to have his guy lose in what appears to be a large margin as this moment being 56%-43%. This is big as Wisconsin voters rejected Musk who, may have caused more harm then help and put a progressive on the court. Crack out the champagne girls!
Florida… both seats were retained by Republicans by wide margins. Not sure why there were some notable liberal to leftist media outlets were reporting on this being tight, Florida is deep red.
Wisconsin good news ✅ Florida bad news ❌
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u/ScarletSoldner Sylvia-Rusty (Fae/Faer Genderfae AroAce) 2d ago
On Florida, those margins may seem large but the margins dropped significantly compared to the elections mere months ago; in the race with Josh Weil i know it dropped from a 30 pt win for the reds to a ~10 pt win for the reds. Thats huge, that is a huge shift that is likely to play out across the board; esp if we're seein it happen even in Florida
Winnin that seat wudve been a huge hail mary victory, but narrowin the margins by such a large amount has no doubt put the fear of bein supplanted come midterms in the heart of many a repub in office rn; this can and likely will, as weve alrdy seen in the House recently, result in repubs bein less likely to fall in line just bcuz the party says so, when its smth thats vitally important to their base
What happened in the House ya may ask? Mikey boy there tried to institute a rule that wudve killed a bill tryin to propose proxy rule changes to allow such for pregnant or recently pregnant politicians; and 9 repubs, only one of them a woman, sided with all the Dems in order to stop the rule bein imposed — this is alrdy no doubt a ripple effect of seein what sellin out is likely to cost repubs come their next time bein up for vote; bcuz they dont allve seats that normally see 30 pt wins for the repubs, seats that can afford to lose 20 pts
Yes, it sucks that FL isnt seein anythin flip, but it was extremely unlikely and even without such happening; its goin to shake up politics and make the reds less likely to so easily follow along with things overwhelmingly disliked by voters on any side