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Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib defeated her Republican opponent in Michigan's 12th congressional district election on Tuesday, securing a fourth term as the only Palestinian-American woman in the US Congress.

The Associated Press called the race with just 18 percent of the votes counted.

Tlaib secured 77 percent of the vote, defeating the Republican Party's James Hooper who received just 19 percent of the vote.

Her victory comes amid the backdrop of Israel's war on Gaza, which has killed more than 43,000 Palestinians so far and has been diplomatically and militarily supported by the Biden-Harris administration for more than a year.

Tlaib has been a vocal critic of the war, calling for the US to withhold weapons from Israel. Her opposition to the war on Gaza and support for pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses have drawn harsh criticism from both Republicans and Democrats.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Well done! Elect an official that is likely to be deported because you just elected, "a dictator on day one who wants to deport 20 million people in the first 6 months, with no end in sight."

You're just like Missouri that just ended a statewide abortion ban, only to elect the guy that promised to ban it at the federal level.

Basically your state sold the rest of us out because of your pride, greed, and racism.

[–] zarkanian 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Another reason to love her.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Another reason to worry about her being deported

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

What was the breakdown of the district's vote in the presidential election? I'm surprised that wasn't included in the article. It seems extremely pertinent.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Dont expect the Democrats to learn anything from this because their Billionaire donors would rather they lose by promoting policies that don't threaten profits than win and cost the donors money.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Their billionaire donors don't lose, that's the point. Reps are following the same main purpose of allowing barely restricted capital accumulation.

To know what happens in US politics when the donors are seeing even the distant possiblity of losing one day, ask Black Panthers for example.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The Associated Press called the race with just 18 percent of the votes counted.

WTF?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Not unusual, and not a bad thing. They called a number of races with less than that. If you're taking your expected percentages with the voting samples you've got and your statistics and calculations say there's less than a 1% chance the race will flip, you might as well call it. They're pretty much never wrong when they make a call that early.

It also doesn't actually matter because the AP isn't who decides the winner.

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Who could've guessed that appealing to far-right republicans — who are going to vote republican anyway — wouldn't be a winning strategy?

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yeah, Democrats are always doing Republican-lite, then they're surprised that doesn't peel off voters on the right that will just always vote for the real thing anyway.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

They also make the mistake of thinking that in order to appeal to conservative voters they have to be conservative. I have more often gotten through to conservatives with socialist economics and anarchist political philosophy than I ever could when I was a liberal trying to sway them on cultural issues and basic welfare.

And after getting through to them they started to come around on the cultural issues too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Yep, Trump got so many union members to vote for him even though he'll probably get Musk to run the NLRB. Maybe they should've shouted that message from the rooftops instead? Instead they didn't even let the Teamsters boss speak at the convention (he was allowed to speak at the RNC).

[–] [email protected] 28 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

But if you point this out on Lemmy, you're a MAGA Trumper with six Trump dildos shoved up your ass and a fetish for fascism.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Got called a Russian bot multiple times for calling out the blue Maga people. Criticising the Democratic strategy is apparently the same as wanting Trump to win.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Oh it's an absolute joke. The most recent is a guy speaking to me like I'm a misguided child who was fooled into spending my fun money on a rock.

No, dude, the Democratic Party isn't progressive, and I'm tired of them demanding my vote while giving me the finger and making no progress. I still voted Harris, begrudgingly, but I've been "had" and "need to go rest and come back when I feel better."

She ran a shit campaign and lost, and her policies offered little to the average American beyond "not fascism," I'm not misguided, her and the Democrats fucked up. Like they always do.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 18 hours ago

Don't forget you're also a secret ~~jew~~ Russian

[–] [email protected] 33 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

It is actually worse. It confirms the right wing standpoints and thus leads to a general societal swing to a more right-leaning worldview. This is basically what framing is. You can see this very well here in Germany, were basically the whole political spectrum nowadays presents views that would have been considered far right just 10 years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Democratic party is not a left leaning or even a centrist party. Most of right wing policy of Republican presidency is continued by the Democratic presidency.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

We have a conservative party and a very conservative party.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 18 hours ago

We have two very conservative parties with one trying to shake their branding of being otherwise.

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