FINAL (mostly) RESULTS FROM NORTH CAROLINA
Hard to know where to begin. This was a generational election. Absolutely insane. The voter surge pushed the Republican gerrymander of North Carolina into dummymander territory, wreaking absolute havoc on the GOP's numbers.
US SENATE: @RoyCooperNC by a mile.
CONGRESS: Democrats flip 6 (!!) Congressional seats: NC-5, 6, 9, 11, 13, 14. NC delegation becomes 10D-4R.
NC LEGISLATURE: Democrats flip 19 (!!) House seats, plus 1 Independent. 4 in the Senate.
If the 1 Independent caucuses with @NCHouseDems, they will be at 71 seats in the NC House - just 1 shy of a supermajority.
The NC Senate is now 26R-24D. Republicans are just 1 seat away from a full Democratic trifecta of North Carolina's state government.
NC JUDICIAL: @Anita_Earls and all 3 Democratic Court of Appeals candidates crushed their races by wide margins.
LOCAL: Democrats made large gains in local races all over the state. Totals are still being tabulated in some places, but Democrats flipped:
- both the New Hanover County Board of Commissioners and School board
- the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners, and the District Attorney's office - perennial Republican statewide candidate Jim O'Neil has finally been turned out of office
- The Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners, where no Democrat has held any seat in 36 years - will now have a Democratic majority
We will have a fuller accounting later. For now, it's bedtime. God bless the great state of North Carolina.
The midterms are this simple:
Biden and Democrats inherited a poorly managed pandemic, massive job loss, and a ruined economy from Trump in 2021.
They added jobs every month, the pandemic recovery went better than in peer nations, and by 2024 the US economy was dubbed the Envy of the World and was so strong it improved the entire global outlook.
That was what Republicans and Trump inherited.
Then, they slammed the brakes on the economy, killed job growth, drove up inflation, made healthcare far more expensive, kicked one million children off of food assistance, started an illegal war, angered our allies, and made the nation sick from cuts to health inspections and disease monitoring, not to mention the rampant corruption that has enriched the president and his family with billions of dollars.
The midterms are your chance to change this.
It is time to vote those who have failed us out of power.
If you were horrified last night watching our elected leaders run and scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed.
Now, becomes a part of the solution and only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.
Gotta love that Texas can just redistrict, no ballot measure, no vote, just legislatively make it happen, and no one bats an eye, but Virginia lets the people decide and the media whips up a frenzy about Spanberger’s approval. Fucking insane.