• axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    I’ve had this hunch for a while. Her initial win came out of nowhere and she defeated Joseph Crowley, a very embedded Democrat who had been around for a while. He was even Democratic caucus chairman at one point. I thought it was a case of Democrats accidentally leaving the door unlocked but now I’m more tinfoil hat

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      4 months ago

      It’s probably also a situation like where Tlaib finds herself. A very safe district with a demographic unlike most other districts