Black voters made up a larger share of the electorate than in 2024, helping to (maybe) flip a Senate seat in Mississippi
“We may have lost this battle, but the war is not over and I need y’all to stay in this fight,” Nixon told a packed crowd in a Jacksonville warehouse. “2028 is around the corner, so Ashley Moody, you better get it right cause we’re coming for you.”
If the economy is the issue, he can win Michigan in November. El-Sayed's overriding message has to be that his election will help end Trump’s disastrous control of the economy. Halley Stevens concession and endorsement; Mallory McMorrow endorsement.
While no single strategy will be a silver bullet, there’s been renewed focus on state Voting Rights Acts, youth-led movements, and grassroots organizing.
The ruling, when it comes, will be disastrous for Black voters and for Democrats.
The country is evenly divided when it comes to party preference. Trump did not win a landslide like FDR in 1936, Johnson in 1964, Nixon in 1972, Reagan in 1980, or Obama in 2008. He won by a small margin in the Electoral College and popular vote.
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"I learned a lot about Black Republicans—their motivations, their stories, their goals," says Mother Jones correspondent Garrison Hayes in a new, indepth video showcasing substantive interviews with Black RNC attendees.
Lusane says that “Donald Trump never has anything positive to say about the Black community,” and that his effort to showcase diversity at the RNC is to “gaslight the Black community.”
The loss of Rep. Jamaal Bowman to AIPAC-backed challenger George Latimer is being played as a defeat for “the left” and a sign of the Democratic Party and its voters moving to the center. Sorry, but the reality is rather more complicated.
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