'A wow moment': Democrats make big gains in key battlegrounds

[EarlG]

Democrats just had one of their best election nights since President Donald Trump returned to the White House. Again.

In Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election, the Democratic-backed candidate sailed to a nearly 20-point landslide victory Tuesday in a battleground Trump carried less than two years ago. Meanwhile, a Georgia Democrat slashed Trump’s margin of victory by two thirds in the state’s reddest district despite losing the election — the most significant overperformance the party has seen across all seven House special elections so far this cycle.

The results in the battleground states — home to key Senate, gubernatorial and House races — are the latest repudiation from voters of Trump and his agenda and flashing warning signs for the GOP heading into November.

“It’s a wow moment in Wisconsin politics,” said former Republican strategist Brandon Scholz, who left the party in 2021. “Republicans ought to be sitting down tonight and going, ‘Okay, we just screwed up another race. What are we going to do in November?’”

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/08/democrats-gains-wisconsin-georgia-elections-trump-00863404

[bigtree]

1. k&r

...thanks for posting.

[yardwork]

2. The MSM: "Why this is bad for the Democrats..."

Thanks for posting good news!

[wolfie001]

7. We're so extreme because we want to spend $ on housing and medical

Instead of "dumb" bombs and ways to kill people. Such radical thinkers' we Democrats are. These billionaire-owned news outlets are truly shit.

[Chautauquas]

3. The victory in Wisconsin

means we'll have a majority on the state supreme court until at least 2030.

[wolfie001]

8. That fucker Walker's legacy

[Figarosmom]

25. A 5 to 2 majority😊

[FakeNoose]

4. The independent voters are pivoting back to voting blue

This is what we need to win the midterm elections - get the independent, non-affiliated voters to show up at the polls and vote blue. They can finally see what a mistake the R party is, and it was stupid to give the R's (and Chump) way too much power. Now we're all paying a very high price for that mistake.

[mopinko]

18. revenge of the soccer moms.

they vote on the safety of their kids. w scared them, so they voted for him.
it’s pretty clear who the threat is now.
and they’re not gonna forget about the epstein files.

[malaise]

5. Dems flip

ReTHUGs flop

Great news

[wolfie001]

9. I like that!

[malaise]

11. Thanks

[sheshe2]

6. Recommend

[peppertree]

10. If Dems overperform in Nov. as well as Shawn Harris did in this district, Rethugs would be left with 161 to 174 seats

(R+19 district, and Harris lost by 12)

[peppertree]

12. Republicans: "Okay, we just screwed up another race. What are we going to do in November?"

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“Steal'em and/or cancel the election outright - by way of some staged “terrorist” incident, of course.”

[mdbl]

13. Now if that district could overcome its blatant racist thinking.

They might make a better choice for themselves.

[BWdem4life]

14. "What are we going to do in November?"

Cheat.

[GiqueCee]

15. "What are we going to do in November?"

Why, they'll do what they always do anyway: lie, cheat, steal, and possibly murder. Well, they'll probably leave that last one to the ICE goons who will illegally try to intimidate voters at the polls, but if a voter blinks the wrong way – BLAM! And call it self-defense, of course.

[progressoid]

20. Anything but admit they made a mistake.

Like worshiping at the feet of Trump

[modrepub]

16. So What's The Over/Under

for the number of days until Clay Fuller (Rat-Fu--er) is sworn in and seated for MTG's old seat in Congress?

Sorry for pointing out a downer for the night but I'm still curious.

[azureblue]

17. the Republicans are learning

that their bullying, lying, and corruption has caught up with them, and they are lucky tar and feathers aren't easily obtained.. Of course they will lie and try to intimidate even more, but now the world sees Trump a a paper tiger..

[Initech]

19. The tides are indeed turning! People are waking up to the dangerous menace that is the Trump Fox MAGA party!

Let's do the real patriotic thing and celebrate America's 250th birthday by flushing the Fox party down the drain where they belong!

[TBF]

21. An expensive lesson - our gas is going to be crazy expensive

for quite some time. But, yes, there were great victories for democrats yesterday.

Now, for all that is holy, our reps should be calling very loudly for the release of the unredacted Epstein Files - it is clearly his Achilles heel. And, at this point, I want to see what he did that was so horrible that it was worth attacking Iran to distract.

[calimary]

24. That's a powerful point you make, TBF.

I too want to know what it was THAT HE DID, that was “so horrible that it was worth attacking Iran to distract”.

Whatever is in the Epstein files must be potentially lethal.

[TBF]

27. The abuse, the trafficking, and what else?

I'm convinced the abuse was the tip of the iceberg - how they were getting paid and laundering those funds, and what kind of connections existed (via Epstein and/or Trump) with Israel and Russia at that time.

I think there's a lot and he knows it. Maybe he isn't as addled with dementia as we feared - maybe there are just really big things he needs to keep buried.

[calimary]

28. Yep. So now I'm wondering what he's so desperate to keep buried.

I hope questions about that will keep him bedeviled until the moment he finally has to meet Satan himself… or maybe escorted to Hell’s waiting room where he doesn’t realize he’ll be kept waiting, alone, literally put on “Ignore” for all eternity.

[BobTheSubgenius]

22. I'd like to take a shot at answering the closing question.

Lose.

[leftstreet]

23. DURec

[Figarosmom]

26. And a Democratic Mayor in WAUKESHA!

Halvensleben elected as mayor of Waukesha | Waukesha Co. News | gmtoday.com https://share.google/AG61807aGemHF1n0B

With 51.2%

WAUKESHA — Alicia Halvensleben was elected during Tuesday's election as the next mayor of Waukesha against Rep. Scott Allen, R-Waukesha.

Tuesday’s election results show Halvensleben led with 9,535 votes, earning 51.2% of the total ballots cast. Allen followed with 9,081 votes, or 48.7%. There were 25 write-in votes.

[Bluetus]

29. GOP: "we just screwed up another race. What are we going to do "

That is one of the stupidest things I have heard a GOP strategist say -- and I hope they keep thinking exactly this way.

The results have little or nothing to do with "the campaign". It is simply a case of a party that is shoving down the American throats a bunch of policies that Americans do not want.

This is like that old bullshit "All politics is local". That is not true. That has never been true. There are important national issues. People in Wisconsin have television, I am told. So they are probably aware of the shit that has been going down in Minneapolis, for example. People in Georgia see the war that they don't want at the same time they see the closures of hospitals the DO want.

We need to stop thinking the way things might have been 50 years ago. Are we saying that, all of a sudden, a party that was losing regularly, has learned how to run fantastic campaigns that are now performing 20% better? Of course not. That is nonsense. It is about the national state of affairs, and we will maximize our success if ALL Democrats get on board with what we need to be doing in a unified way as an opposition party.