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After not endorsing Harris, Rashida Tlaib secures win in Michigan (www.middleeasteye.net)

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Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib defeated her Republican opponent in Michigan's 12th congressional district election on Tuesday, securing a fourth term as the only Palestinian-American woman in the US Congress.

The Associated Press called the race with just 18 percent of the votes counted.

Tlaib secured 77 percent of the vote, defeating the Republican Party's James Hooper who received just 19 percent of the vote.

Her victory comes amid the backdrop of Israel's war on Gaza, which has killed more than 43,000 Palestinians so far and has been diplomatically and militarily supported by the Biden-Harris administration for more than a year.

Tlaib has been a vocal critic of the war, calling for the US to withhold weapons from Israel. Her opposition to the war on Gaza and support for pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses have drawn harsh criticism from both Republicans and Democrats.

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[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Well done! Elect an official that is likely to be deported because you just elected, "a dictator on day one who wants to deport 20 million people in the first 6 months, with no end in sight."

You're just like Missouri that just ended a statewide abortion ban, only to elect the guy that promised to ban it at the federal level.

Basically your state sold the rest of us out because of your pride, greed, and racism.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

Another reason to love her.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Another reason to worry about her being deported

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

What was the breakdown of the district's vote in the presidential election? I'm surprised that wasn't included in the article. It seems extremely pertinent.

[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 91 points 1 day ago

Dont expect the Democrats to learn anything from this because their Billionaire donors would rather they lose by promoting policies that don't threaten profits than win and cost the donors money.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 33 points 19 hours ago

Their billionaire donors don't lose, that's the point. Reps are following the same main purpose of allowing barely restricted capital accumulation.

To know what happens in US politics when the donors are seeing even the distant possiblity of losing one day, ask Black Panthers for example.

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

The Associated Press called the race with just 18 percent of the votes counted.

WTF?

[-] would_be_appreciated@lemmy.ml 19 points 16 hours ago

Not unusual, and not a bad thing. They called a number of races with less than that. If you're taking your expected percentages with the voting samples you've got and your statistics and calculations say there's less than a 1% chance the race will flip, you might as well call it. They're pretty much never wrong when they make a call that early.

It also doesn't actually matter because the AP isn't who decides the winner.

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[-] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 117 points 1 day ago

Who could've guessed that appealing to far-right republicans — who are going to vote republican anyway — wouldn't be a winning strategy?

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 73 points 1 day ago

Yeah, Democrats are always doing Republican-lite, then they're surprised that doesn't peel off voters on the right that will just always vote for the real thing anyway.

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 7 points 13 hours ago

They also make the mistake of thinking that in order to appeal to conservative voters they have to be conservative. I have more often gotten through to conservatives with socialist economics and anarchist political philosophy than I ever could when I was a liberal trying to sway them on cultural issues and basic welfare.

And after getting through to them they started to come around on the cultural issues too.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 3 points 11 hours ago

Yep, Trump got so many union members to vote for him even though he'll probably get Musk to run the NLRB. Maybe they should've shouted that message from the rooftops instead? Instead they didn't even let the Teamsters boss speak at the convention (he was allowed to speak at the RNC).

[-] BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world 30 points 21 hours ago

But if you point this out on Lemmy, you're a MAGA Trumper with six Trump dildos shoved up your ass and a fetish for fascism.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 25 points 19 hours ago

Got called a Russian bot multiple times for calling out the blue Maga people. Criticising the Democratic strategy is apparently the same as wanting Trump to win.

[-] BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago

Oh it's an absolute joke. The most recent is a guy speaking to me like I'm a misguided child who was fooled into spending my fun money on a rock.

No, dude, the Democratic Party isn't progressive, and I'm tired of them demanding my vote while giving me the finger and making no progress. I still voted Harris, begrudgingly, but I've been "had" and "need to go rest and come back when I feel better."

She ran a shit campaign and lost, and her policies offered little to the average American beyond "not fascism," I'm not misguided, her and the Democrats fucked up. Like they always do.

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[-] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 18 points 19 hours ago

Don't forget you're also a secret ~~jew~~ Russian

[-] menemen@lemmy.ml 35 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

It is actually worse. It confirms the right wing standpoints and thus leads to a general societal swing to a more right-leaning worldview. This is basically what framing is. You can see this very well here in Germany, were basically the whole political spectrum nowadays presents views that would have been considered far right just 10 years ago.

[-] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 62 points 1 day ago

Democratic party is not a left leaning or even a centrist party. Most of right wing policy of Republican presidency is continued by the Democratic presidency.

[-] Hugin@lemmy.world 25 points 21 hours ago

We have a conservative party and a very conservative party.

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 17 points 19 hours ago

We have two very conservative parties with one trying to shake their branding of being otherwise.

[-] AidsKitty@lemmy.world 28 points 23 hours ago

She knew how to keep her job.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 103 points 1 day ago

Fucking learn from this, DNC.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 20 points 16 hours ago

DNC response:

[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 9 points 16 hours ago

So, I'm just pondering here, but it seems to me that it's a bad Idea to run an unpopular presidential candidate because when voters choose to stay home, they also take their down-ballot votes with them.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 5 points 15 hours ago

Very true. I was wondering why the GOP won the Senate but that makes perfect sense.

[-] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 19 hours ago

They will not. They will do what they always do:

rely on people being pissed off enough after four years of Rep rule to vote for the Dems no matter what
rely on a few select 'free' topics (abortion, LGBTQIA+ rights etc) to show how different they are, when they are mostly exactly the same when it comes to topics that matter to most voters daily (ie topics that affect them personally, like their own economic situation)

I recon the only thing that could actually make them shift to the left is strong opposition from the left, basically a left Ross Perot, if you want. One that collects all the votes of the people who were too disillusioned this time around to actually vote, and then basically says "Shift to the left enough, be a real alternative, and you can have these". Without someone or a party like that, no, they will not change. They will continue to further the interests of billionaires, just like the Reps.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 86 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We need to go more to the right!

— Democrats, every time they lose

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