The Republicans won a special South Carolina House election on Tuesday, but the Democrats overperformed by double digits compared to their performance in the 2024 presidential election.
Republican John Lastinger won 62.3 percent of the vote in the election for the 88th district seat, beating Democrat Chuck Hightower, who secured 37.7 percent. This gave the Republicans a net win of +24.6 percent over the Democrats.
This represents an improved performance for the Democrats compared to the 2024 presidential election, when President Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris in the district by 67 percent to 32 percent, according to The State newspaper. In that election, the Republicans won with a net margin of +35 percentage points.
Crazy thing…
When you don’t hoard all the wealth from state parties and prevent them from fighting in every election, we win less seats than if we put a legit effort into winning every possible elections.
But it takes billions to have a coin flip chance at convincing voters a neoliberal is better than a Republican, that’s just been the reality of American politics for decades.
If we stop shoving neoliberalism down voters throats, we don’t have to continuously rob the state Dem parties to pay for the one presidential campaign every four years.