• Furedadmins@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    He is from a safe very red district so the craziest person wins the primary and then basically gets in free after that.

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      11 months ago

      It’s a blue district, though only D+2 (meaning it tends to be 2 points more towards Dems than the national average). It did vote for Bush in 2004, but is otherwise straight blue for President since 1992. Most recently went for Biden by +10 points.

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        11 months ago

        Republicans have historically held that seat with very large majorities. Over 70% during Bush and Obama presidencies. Trump was enough to drag it down but then as soon as he was off the ballot it’s back to crazy land Republicans. I might be wrong but to me that says deep red.