Let’s stipulate that it is always better to win than to lose, or as Vince Lombardi, legendary coach of the Green Bay, Wisconsin, Packers put it, “”Show me a good loser, and I’ll show
So, we find it very strange that Democrats and the establishment media (but I repeat myself) have trumpeted Tuesday’s election results, 3 victories to 1 loss for the GOP, as some kind of a disaster for President Trump, and Republicans in general.
In Florida’s two special congressional elections in House Districts FL-1 and FL-6, despite being outspent by large margins the Republican candidates won both contests with over 56 percent of the vote.
As Jessica Anderson observed in a post to the Sentinel Action Fund Substack, with all of the bluster and all of the outsized attention and all of the money poured into these races from left-wing activist donors, the Democrats have only the status quo to show for their efforts.
As Ms. Anderson continued, “Democrat activists posing as journalists and talking heads will attempt to extrapolate a story of Americans in revolt against President Trump.
“Do not believe their lies.
“All of the energy, all of the money, all of the angst and division they sowed in the lead up to last night resulted in the maintenance of the status quo.”
What’s more, the allegedly worrisome turnout in both elections was in line with, or arguably better than, the turnout in other recent Florida Special Elections – in 2022 where a Democrat replaced a Democrat in a Special Congressional Election (FL-20) only 56,352 voters voted, and in the General Election in November of that year a total of 188,366 ballots were cast.
In the recent FL-1 Special Election 171,021 voters cast ballots with Republican Jimmy Patronis posting a 56.9 percent win over Democrat Gay Valimont.
In the recent FL-6 Special Election 195,475 voters cast ballot with Republican Randy Fine posting a 56.7 percent win over Democrat Josh Weil – and that win came after Fine’s very public feud with Florida’s GOP Governor Ron DeSantis.
Percentage-wise Democrats overperformed 6 -8 points, when they needed more like 20 to actually win.
It’s also true that in Wisconsin the Special Election to the State Supreme Court the conservative lost, and that left that status quo in place, but there’s a twist.
While the Far Left Democrat Judge Susan Crawford was elected to the Supreme Court by a 260,000-vote margin, the voter ID ballot measure to enshrine voter photo ID in the state constitution won by 583,752 votes. Indeed, the voter ID ballot question received 1,435,938 votes, 134,810 votes more than Far Left Judge Crawford did.
The results in the Wisconsin voter ID constitutional amendment might reasonably lead one to believe that, while conservative Judge Brad Schimel lost his election, the Trump agenda won quite handily, garnering the most votes of any of the options with which voters were presented.
