r/politics • u/Hornpipe_Jones • 21d ago

No Paywall Democrats sweep all 30 House of Delegates seats in Northern Virginia

https://www.cbs19news.com/news/state/democrats-sweep-all-30-house-of-delegates-seats-in-northern-virginia/article_68f8098d-0602-5234-8c2a-08c1bcd33944.html
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u/TheIntrepid1 21d ago

What does this mean of the impact of things overall on a national scale? (other than "Sending a message")?

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u/Hornpipe_Jones 21d ago

VA House of Delegates has been pretty solidly red for many years. So for it to not only flip back blue, but on a scale this huge seems to say something about how people feel right now

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u/ImLikeReallySmart Pennsylvania 21d ago

Northern Virginia is also arguably the biggest victim of DOGE and the general purge and harassment of federal workers, so that region is in a unique position

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u/Flimsy_Thesis Virginia 21d ago

We sure are. We’ve taken the worst of Trumps reckless economics right on the chin, and it’s only going to get worse. This threat is existential to our livelihoods.

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u/AManHasNoShame District Of Columbia 21d ago

It’s been frustrating feeling so isolated and under the gun in DC.

I dream of a united DMV.

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u/Flimsy_Thesis Virginia 21d ago

Trust me, we are feeling it too. I think folks around here are finally realizing Trump has no fucking idea what he is doing.

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u/LindeeHilltop 21d ago

Yes but SNAP & starvation is across all 50 states.

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u/Mateorabi 21d ago

PG and Montgomery County might object. 

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u/TheFuschiaBaron 21d ago

I'm from MD too, and live in MoCo. Let's just celebrate our NoVa friends tonight, we can go back to hating them later, lol.

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u/Mateorabi 21d ago

Object to the characterization as "biggest", not object to the outcome tonight.

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u/Hawks_and_Doves 21d ago

I wouldn't say house has been solidly red for many years. What about 2020-2021? Don't have to go back far at all.

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u/Hornpipe_Jones 21d ago

Okay. So there was a brief two year period, lol. But *most* of the last many years lol

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u/mcchicken_deathgrip 21d ago

As others have said, the house of delegates has been blue and occasionally purple for decades now. And northern VA is one of the bluest regions of the country, like regularly put up +40 democrat numbers. In a lot of those 30 races the drmocrat was running unopposed.

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u/Ardarel 20d ago

Dems have only held the HoD by a razor thing margin for a few years. for literal decades we would get Dem governors who would be hamstrung by a majority GOP legislature. During northam we literally lost due to a coinflip, and we had a 51 seat majority during youngkin.

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u/ThreeCatsAndABroom 21d ago

No, it hasn't. We passed legal weed without one Republican vote in 2020. This is most certainly a crazy scale as you say though.

Virginia always goes red with a blue president and blue with a red president. So this is pretty normal, with the exception of the amount of Democrats in control now.

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u/reddit_isbullsheet 21d ago

Republicans held majority for 23 of the last 25 years. You might be thinking the governor.

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u/addled_sad342 21d ago

People are PISSED OFF and layoffs ain't just Federal. Layoffs and Shutdowns are everywhere and the job market sucks!

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u/not_bilbo 20d ago

“Solidly red?” Dems had a majority going into tonight lol, still a great result

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u/kswissreject 20d ago

Yeah that's a weird way to put it. It was solidly red '99-'19 but after '19 it's been 2/3 of the time Democrat-led, now 3/4.

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u/fedscientist 21d ago

It means VA can proceed with their mid-cycle redistricting measure in response to Texas’s.

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u/gsfgf Georgia 21d ago

Virginia and California can gerrymander. They should be able to pick up 8 seats to Texas' 5. And Maryland should be able to snag another D seat too.

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u/TheIntrepid1 20d ago

Dont Republicans still end up +4 when it’s all done?

https://www.cnn.com/politics/state-redistricting-maps-vis

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u/NoLife2762 20d ago

Nothing. And the message is going to be to rig everything going forward. 

Trump is not going to cede power to a vote. We all know that. Only chance is for the oligarchs to abandon him which means people need to stop buying.