{"id":1053108,"date":"2025-06-04T20:51:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T00:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1053108"},"modified":"2025-06-04T20:51:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T00:51:56","slug":"democrats-improve-overperformance-record-after-sweeping-victories-in-south-carolina-and-mississippi-local-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/democrats-improve-overperformance-record-after-sweeping-victories-in-south-carolina-and-mississippi-local-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Improve Overperformance Record After Sweeping Victories in South Carolina and Mississippi Local Elections\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last night, Democrats in South Carolina and Mississippi clinched victories, improving Democrats\u2019 special election winning and overperformance record to a whopping 24 elections in 2025 alone. In South Carolina, 24-year-old Keishan Scott overperformed the top of the 2024 ticket by 36 points, and in deep-red Mississippi, Democrats won mayoral elections across the state.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Trump and his Republican allies peddle a disastrous agenda that sets the country backward and rips away the rights and hard-earned benefits of working Americans to enrich billionaires, voters are saying enough is enough at the ballot box.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In response to yesterday\u2019s Democratic electoral overperformances, <\/em><strong><em>DNC Deputy Executive Director Libby Schneider released the following statement:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLast night, South Carolina and Mississippi Democratic candidates dominated their Republican opponents to secure critical wins that strengthen Democrats\u2019 power in these Republican-held states. Voters are fed up with Republicans\u2019 disastrous policies that put them last and are jumping at the chance to enact change at the voting booth: electing strong, qualified Democratic leaders who will fight for the people they represent. These results underscore a clear rebuke we\u2019re seeing again and again against Trump and any Republican who is ready to co-sign his unpopular, billionaire-first agenda. While Republicans continue to bend the knee to Trump and his billionaire backers, actively making the lives of Americans worse, Democrats will continue to fight for policies that put them first by winning elections across the country and up and down the ballot .\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In South Carolina, Democrat Keishan Scott won a landslide victory in South Carolina\u2019s House District 50 race.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/196117\/democrat-landslide-win-south-carolina-special-election\">New Republic<\/a>: <strong>\u201cThe Democratic candidate in a South Carolina special election swept to a landslide victory Tuesday night, <\/strong>becoming the youngest person elected to the state legislature in nearly a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cKeishan Scott, 24, was elected to the state House to represent South Carolina\u2019s 50th district, which encompasses Lee County and parts of Kershaw and Sumter counties. <strong>He won just under 71 percent of the nearly 3,700 votes cast, beating his Republican opponent by about 41 percentage points.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/young-dem-keishan-scott-clinches-landslide-election-win-in-lindsey-grahams-backyard\/\">Daily Beast<\/a>: <strong>\u201cYoung Dem Clinches Landslide Election Win in Lindsey Graham\u2019s Backyard\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cA 24-year-old Democrat pulled off a landslide win in Sen. Lindsey Graham\u2019s backyard to secure a seat in the South Carolina House of Representatives. <\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFormer Vice President Kamala Harris narrowly won the South Carolina district against Donald Trump in last year\u2019s presidential election.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/democrats-achieve-landslide-election-win-south-carolina-2080667\">Newsweek<\/a>: <strong>\u201cDemocrats Achieve Landslide Election Win in South Carolina\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In Mississippi, Democrats achieved significant victories in mayoral races across the state.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarionledger.com\/story\/news\/local\/2025\/06\/03\/2025-election-results-for-jackson-ms-mayor-john-horhn-claims-victory\/83987753007\/\">Mississippi Clarion Ledger<\/a>: \u201cState Sen. John Horhn is Jackson&#8217;s next mayor, with dominating win\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cIt was another dominant performance for Horhn, 70, who crushed incumbent Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba<\/strong> in both the April 1 Democratic primary and April 22 runoff to secure the Democratic nomination for mayor. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cHorhn took the lead early and never looked back.<\/strong> With almost half of Jackson&#8217;s 80 precincts reporting, Horhn already had 5,000 votes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magnoliatribune.com\/2025\/06\/03\/democrats-have-good-night-in-mississippi-mayor-elections\/\">Magnolia Tribune<\/a>:<strong> \u201cDemocrats have good night in Mississippi mayor elections\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cLeading the three-man race was Democrat Willis Thompson, a former Alderman, with nearly 44 percent.<\/strong> The two were separated by 61 votes. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cDemocrat nominee Jimmy Stokes defeated Republican nominee Danny Klein, <\/strong>the current Alderman-at-Large, to become the new mayor of Horn Lake by roughly 80 votes. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cWard 5 City Councilman Stephen Jones, a Democrat, defeated two Independents to win the mayor\u2019s seat.<\/strong> Jones replaces Mayor Keith Gaskin who did not seek re-election. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cDemocrat incumbent Lynn Spruill easily defeated her Republican challenger, winning over 80 percent of the vote.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, Democrats in South Carolina and Mississippi clinched victories, improving Democrats\u2019 special election winning and overperformance record to a whopping 24 elections in 2025 alone. In South Carolina, 24-year-old Keishan Scott overperformed the top of the 2024 ticket by 36 points, and in deep-red Mississippi, Democrats won mayoral elections across the state.&nbsp; As Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"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-1053108","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>Democrats Improve Overperformance Record After Sweeping Victories in South Carolina and Mississippi Local Elections\u00a0\u00a0 - 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\/democrats-improve-overperformance-record-after-sweeping-victories-in-south-carolina-and-mississippi-local-elections\/\" \/>\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=\"2025-06-05T00:51:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-05T00:51:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\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\/democrats-improve-overperformance-record-after-sweeping-victories-in-south-carolina-and-mississippi-local-elections\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/democrats-improve-overperformance-record-after-sweeping-victories-in-south-carolina-and-mississippi-local-elections\/\",\"name\":\"Democrats Improve Overperformance Record After Sweeping Victories in South Carolina and Mississippi Local Elections\u00a0\u00a0 - 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