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Democrats climb BACK aftyer the Trump 2024 Win and Trump chaos of the last 8 months….
The Democratic Party has been struggling to unify itself and get energized in the aftermath of its devastating loss to President Trump in the 2024 presidential election and other key races last November.
But even amid voter dissatisfaction with party leaders and disapproval with the party brand as a whole, one positive sign for Democrats has been the multiple victories they have achieved in the handful of elections this year.
Democrat Catelin Drey’s win in Iowa Senate District 1 by more than 10 points, as of the latest vote count, over Republican Christopher Prosch is just the latest in a string of Democratic electoral successes this year that is likely to give the party hope heading into the midterms.
The first one came in January in a neighboring state Senate district in Iowa, when Democrats flipped that seat from red to blue, just after Trump took office. They did the same in an equally Trump-friendly state Senate district in Pennsylvania in March.
Trump had carried both Iowa districts and the Pennsylvania one by double digits in November.
Along with a win for a contested seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Democrats have put up impressive wins in these lower turnout, offyear elections. The data is limited as far as being indicative of what’s to come in larger races later this year and next year, even in a statewide contest in a battleground such as Wisconsin.
But the results give Democrats some reassurance that they have momentum with voters most likely to turn out. And the Democratic National Committee’s effort to rally voters in the district appears to have paid off. …..