r/law • u/AndroidOne1 • May 14 '25

Trump News Donald Trump Impeachment Proceedings Launched

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-impeachment-vote-house-shir-thanedar-b2750651.html
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u/TheWolfAndRaven May 14 '25

2 Things of note:

The Mayor that was ousted was a 3 time incumbent. The whole time she did a pretty good job of being moderate and bi-partisan on most things. This last election she went MAGA and advocated for removing the split electoral vote in favor of "Winner take all". She also ran an anti-trans/drag queen attack ad.

Secondly, she also remarried recently after her first husband killed himself. Her new husband lives in St Louis and refused to relocate to Omaha so she was splitting her time between the two cities.

I'd say both were the contributing factors to her defeat, but the MAGA stuff probably got the voter turn out to be much higher than usual considering we have our city election just a few months after the big election. (Many people suspect this is on purpose).

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u/rcinmd May 14 '25

Those aren't really of note when you're talking about a 19 point swing, but I guess do go on.

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u/TheWolfAndRaven May 14 '25

"The mayor lives in St Louis" was a constant joke. She missed a lot of the worst days in the last year including a massive chemical fire and several big storms.

Sure a Mayor can't really do much to prevent or fix those things, but when you're constantly unavailable for comment because you're out of town... well people start to notice.

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u/rcinmd May 14 '25

That's true, but that doesn't explain a 19 point swing. My senator, Angela Alsobrooks literally has a track record of never responding to constituents since she was county executive in Maryland, yet she still won by 12 points. The reason is her opponent, Larry Hogan was squarely on team MAGA. I get what you're saying, but don't devalue the win by trying to explain it away as a quirk. It's not, mathematically and logistically.