Democrats have declared victory in a Pennsylvania state House seat that Republicans held for nearly 30 years.
In a special election for the state House’s 12th District seat, Democrat Brandon Dukes is leading over Republican Scott Timko by less than 100 votes, 8,434 to 8,346, with 99 percent of votes counted.
Dukes told the local Cranberry Eagle Tuesday night, “I’m ecstatic. I’m shocked.”
“I’m still processing this. We just flipped a Trump plus-18 seat, and we flipped a red seat that’s been red for almost 30 years. We made history,” Dukes said.
Okay there’s one thing I don’t understand here: Over the past year we’ve heard about Democrats winning this or that special election, so how do Republicans still have a majority?
This is a state house seat not a federal seat
Not every special election is for a US seat, some are for state seats.
Also, the GOP’s majority has been shrinking.
Lots of fuckery in the general elections.