{"id":1052246,"date":"2025-03-26T19:57:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T23:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1052246"},"modified":"2025-03-26T19:57:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T23:57:28","slug":"in-pennsylvania-special-elections-democrats-claim-victory-as-voters-turn-out-to-reject-the-trump-musk-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/in-pennsylvania-special-elections-democrats-claim-victory-as-voters-turn-out-to-reject-the-trump-musk-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"In Pennsylvania Special Elections, Democrats Claim Victory as Voters Turn Out to Reject the Trump-Musk Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>MEMORANDUM<\/strong><br>TO: Interested Parties<br>FROM: Libby Schneider, Deputy Executive Director, Democratic National Committee<br>DATE: March 26, 2025<br>RE: In Pennsylvania Special Elections, Democrats Claim Victory as Voters Turn Out to Reject the Trump-Musk Agenda<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, Democrats Dan Goughnour and James Malone won closely watched special elections in Pennsylvania. Goughnour\u2019s win secured the Democratic majority in Pennsylvania\u2019s state House, while Malone\u2019s upset in an R+23 district offered a loud and clear rebuke of Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/articles\/trumps-first-5-weeks-in-the-polls\/\">unpopular<\/a> attacks on the programs working families rely on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Senator-elect Malone\u2019s Lancaster County Senate district, a Democratic state senator has not won since it was redistricted away from Philadelphia in 1979, and only three Democratic presidential candidates have ever won Lancaster County \u2013 Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, James Buchanon in 1856, and Andrew Jackson in 1828.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last night\u2019s Pennsylvania special election results were historic, but they\u2019re not outliers.&nbsp; Since Donald Trump and Elon Musk entered the White House and began unleashing their dangerous agenda, Democrats have overperformed and beaten the odds in election after election, including in traditionally red communities like James Malone\u2019s R+23 Senate district last night. <strong>In fact, in districts across the country, Democrats have overperformed the top of the 2024 ticket in all but one of the 14 special elections so far this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As 2025 special elections in states nationwide, including Virginia, Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota, make clear: Democrats are building back power at the grassroots as voters join us in fighting against the Trump-Musk agenda. And while Democrats overperform in elections, Republicans are spiraling as they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/03\/26\/fine-weil-florida-special-election-00249679\">sweat<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lancasteronline.com\/news\/politics\/elon-musk-scott-presler-sound-alarm-over-republican-josh-parsons-chances-in-tuesday-s-state\/article_1ff583fc-b55e-4584-a72e-a5a61b037a69.html\">lose<\/a> elections they assumed would be cakewalks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is a full list of Democratic overperformances in special elections this year:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Virginia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In Virginia\u2019s 10th state Senate district, Democrat Jack Trammell lost by 17, an overperformance of the top of the November ticket by 6 points.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In Virginia\u2019s 32nd state Senate district, Democrat Kannan Srinivasan overperformed the top of the November ticket and won his election by a 62-38 margin.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In Virginia\u2019s 26th state House district, Democrat JJ Singh overperformed the top of the November ticket and won his election by a 62-38 margin.<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Minnesota<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In Minnesota\u2019s Senate District 60 special election, DFL candidate Doron Clark won the election by a margin of 91-9, overperforming the top of the November ticket by 14 points.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In Minnesota\u2019s House District 40B, DFL Candidate David Gottfried overperformed the top of the November ticket by nearly 2 points.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Iowa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In Iowa\u2019s Senate District 35 special election, Democrat Mike Zimmer flipped a district Trump won by 21 points, overperforming the top of the November ticket by 14 points.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In Iowa\u2019s House District 100 special election, Democrat Nannette Griffin overperformed the top of the November ticket by 24 points.<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Connecticut<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In Connecticut\u2019s House District 50 special election, Democrat Dan Gaiewski overperformed the top of the November ticket by over 15 points.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Maine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In Maine\u2019s House District 24 special election, Democrat Sean Faircloth overperformed the top of the November ticket by over 20 points.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Delaware<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In Delaware\u2019s Senate District 1 special election, Democrat Dan Cruce overperformed the top of the November ticket by over 15 points.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In Delaware\u2019s Senate District 5 special election, Democrat Raymond Siegfried overperformed the top of the November ticket by nearly 4 points.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pennsylvania<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dan Goughnour secured the Pennsylvania House majority for Democrats. Goughnour won by nearly 30 points, whereas the top of the ticket in 2024 won by 15.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>James Malone won in a district that Trump won by 15 points in 2024 and has a 23-point Republican voter registration advantage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Libby Schneider,<br>DNC Deputy Executive Director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEMORANDUMTO: Interested PartiesFROM: Libby Schneider, Deputy Executive Director, Democratic National CommitteeDATE: March 26, 2025RE: In Pennsylvania Special Elections, Democrats Claim Victory as Voters Turn Out to Reject the Trump-Musk Agenda Yesterday, Democrats Dan Goughnour and James Malone won closely watched special elections in Pennsylvania. Goughnour\u2019s win secured the Democratic majority in Pennsylvania\u2019s state House, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In Pennsylvania Special Elections, Democrats Claim Victory as Voters Turn Out to Reject the Trump-Musk Agenda - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/in-pennsylvania-special-elections-democrats-claim-victory-as-voters-turn-out-to-reject-the-trump-musk-agenda\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-26T23:57:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/in-pennsylvania-special-elections-democrats-claim-victory-as-voters-turn-out-to-reject-the-trump-musk-agenda\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/in-pennsylvania-special-elections-democrats-claim-victory-as-voters-turn-out-to-reject-the-trump-musk-agenda\/\",\"name\":\"In Pennsylvania Special Elections, Democrats Claim Victory as Voters Turn Out to Reject the Trump-Musk Agenda - 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