Sam Newton

Comms Director for @DemGovs

[Courtney Rice @Court_Rice]

.@dccc winning stats (so far):
✔️Won 70 out of 92 seats on our battlefield
✔️Reelected all 26 Frontliners
✔️Flipped 44 seats from red to blue
✔️Won 55 races (of 77) that Trump won in 2024

As @kirk_bado writes, "this does not just happen overnight." Read on for how we did it ⬇️

[Julia Hamelburg @juliahamelburg]

CNN: After blue wave, three-quarters of Americans will be governed by Democrats

https://t.co/niTcRcrzPx

[Abby Turner @abbyyturner_]

Democrats’ sweep of gubernatorial races wasn’t just the product of a favorable midterm environment, @megmeedra told @nationaljournal, but a reflection of the DGA's investment over the last decade https://t.co/pNXgYilcmB

[Monica Robinson @mo_robz]

MR. NOVEMBER!!!

[Sam Newton @SamNewton]

"It didn't happen overnight. The DGA's work to build democratic governing power in the states over the last decade has been foundational."

Q&A with @megmeedra on how @DemGovs helped grow a low of 15 Dem Govs in 2017 in Trump's first term to 30.
https://t.co/e3Qsh8UPMb

[Sam Newton @SamNewton]

"Democrats appear to have flipped six governorships and held all 18 of their own, exceeding even the wildest hopes... The results are a huge victory for the DGA, which came into the cycle with the once-ambitious task of winning an overall majority."

https://t.co/YM3mpqfkKA

[Alex J. Rouhandeh @AlexRouhandeh]

Major win for the DGA and @KansasDems who were very keen on winning this one to continue building state power
https://t.co/yYG4QFVaAs

[Chris Sloan @cssloan]

Ever single Democratic Women Governor who was termed out is being succeeded by a woman gov. @DemGovs #WomensGovFund #HealeysList

[Albert Fujii @AlbertFujii]

I have been informed Missiflippi is also acceptable

[Sam Newton @SamNewton]

“We are about to have 30 Democratic governors in this country who will govern 75% of the population,” @megmeedra, the executive director of the @DemGovs, told USA TODAY.

"There is sweeping power that governors have that people just don’t think about..."
https://t.co/JXW0a6DsTb

[Sam Newton @SamNewton]

The way @AlyssaLBradley navigated the Benson team for nearly 2 years through this chaotic cycle in Michigan politics was a masterclass, while building a strong, aggressive and winning comms team.

Huge congrats!!

[Alyssa Bradley @AlyssaLBradley]

One week after the 2024 election, @NikkiGoldschein told me to grab lunch with @JocelynBenson. I thought it was an interview, but Jocelyn treated me like I was already leading her comms shop.

650 days later, we made history & elected Michigan’s next governor. So grateful ❤️

[Alyssa Bradley @AlyssaLBradley]

The best comms team in the business!!!

They hustled for every interview, every clip, built more press events than I can count, handled a LOT of wonky policy incoming, and made sure Michiganders heard our message every single day. Forever grateful to have them on Team Benson.

[Peter Hamby @PeterHamby]

Just remembered the time I met Aaron Ford in November of 2025 at the DGA meeting in Arizona.

Shake his hand. "What should I call you? Aaron? General? I never know with AGs."

Looks at me, doesn't miss a beat. "Call me the next governor of Nevada."

[Tai Sims @taisimsNV]

📰 “And in Nevada, Aaron Ford, a Democrat and the state’s attorney general, defeated Gov. Joe Lombardo after leaning into a campaign message centered on addressing high costs and his own upbringing in a struggling household.”

https://t.co/EdjjEHkKSH

[Peter Hamby @PeterHamby]

Yep. Spanberger in VA 2025:
- outran polls + won largest gov margin in 16 years
- prez level turnout on campuses
- split male vote / won young men by 17 points
- flipped 6 Trump counties + cut into non-college whites
- outran Kamala w Black voters
- outran Kamala in Appalachia

[CBS Mornings @CBSMornings]

Governor-elect Amy Acton (D-OH) tells @gayleking that “there was no low my opponent wouldn’t sink to,” referring to a controversial ad run by Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign that featured her estranged mother.

Governor-elect Acton added that she has “no intention of speaking” with Ramaswamy, after he reportedly left a voicemail congratulating her: “We can’t normalize behavior like this.”

[Sam Newton @SamNewton]

@ItsJeffAllen @RoyCooperNC @TeamCooperNC @JohnAnzo @JoshStein_ Congrats!!

[Katie Seewer @kseewer25]

So grateful to be part of this team!

[Dave Price @idaveprice]

This includes some of the pics from Sand’s earlier modeling career that Republicans posted on social media during the campaign to try to get voters to oppose Sand. Those pics are now a tshirt.