We only have more special state legislative election now (in a deeply Republican district in Alabama a week before election day), so how are Democrats doing compared to 2024 so far? Counting tonight, Dems are overperforming 2024 by 12-14 points x.com/Uncrewed/statu…

One of the bluest State House districts currently held by the Minnesota GOP isn't in the MSP metro, it's in the Duluth area! The GOP won #HD3B last year by 0.6%, despite Harris carrying it for President by four points and Amy Klobuchar winning it by 18!

Back in 2022, the number of Republicans on the Cook County Board of Commissioners was cut in half, going from two to one. That's because Maggie Trevor flipped the open 9th District in the northwest suburbs of Chicago! She narrowly defeated Republican Matt Podgorski by 700 votes.

Last year, the DuPage County GOP continued to lose ground in the county as the Democrats flipped the County Coroner's office. With Judith Lukas's win here, that means that Democrats now control more countywide offices in DuPage than Republicans!

After the DuPage County GOP was nearly wiped out at the local level earlier this year, I'm interested to see if the bottom continues to fall out for them at the County level. They have 6 County Board members left, but 5 are up for re-election next year. Could be a wipeout!

The most vulnerable Republican in the Pennsylvania State Senate next year is probably Tracy Pennycuick in #SD24. This district in northern Montco backed Trump by two last year and elected Pennycuick in 2022 by four points, but both Fetterman & Shapiro won here in 2022.

There's only one Republican left who represents Chicago in the State House, Brad Stephens of #HD20. Stephens won his first bid for re-election in 2020, defeating Democrat Michelle Darbro by 9 despite being outspent by millions of dollars. He's won uncontested twice since then.

There's one Republican left on the Cook County Board of Commissioners, Sean Morrison in the 17th District. His days on the board might be numbered though, because he represents a Harris+1 district in western Cook County and only won by 3 against an underfunded opponent in 2022.

Don't think anyone has noticed this yet, but an hour ago, #IL05 Congressman Mike Quigley updated his campaign finance page with the state of Illinois to show that he's running for Mayor of Chicago in 2027. Could be soon officially joining a *VERY* crowded field

Over in Alaska, Louise Stutes was one of the major Republicans players in the State House who left the GOP caucus to form a Majority Coalition with the Dems and Independents. She ascended to the Speakership after 2020 and beat back a Republican challenger in 2022 in her #HD05.

The Bronx's Hudson and Sound coasts are much whiter and more suburban in nature than the rest of the dense, majority-minority borough. Politically, their similarities stop there — the west's blue Riverdale blends in while the eastern coast has the reddest parts of the borough.

Last year, California's #AD36 flipped red on both the Presidential level and the State Assembly level. Nestled in Imperial/eastern Riverside Counties, this majority-Hispanic district swung from Biden+15 to Trump+1. At the same time, Assembly Republicans flipped it by 4 points.

Back in 1990, Connecticut had a chaotic gubernatorial election. Two Congressmen ran for the job, but in the end, it was a former US Senator who won it. Former Republican Senator Lowell Weicker formed his own centrist Connecticut Party and ended up winning here by three points.