Democratic #PA18 candidate Conor Lamb declares victory: “It took a little longer than we thought, but we did it” https://t.co/UaL9pCcksi
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 14, 2018
Now that Lamb has done the unthinkable and won the special election in Pennsylvania, Republicans are scrambling, saying that Saccone’s defeat was more of a referendum on Saccone than on Trump, and that Lamb only won because he’s more of a Republican than a Democrat, but, when you strip all the political spin away, what you’re left with is the fact that the Democrats just took a seat in a district that Trump won by 19 points just a year ago. [In 2014 and 2016, Murphy ran unopposed for the seat, as no Democrats felt as though they even had a shot in the deep red district.] This is absolutely staggering. Tonight’s win, especially as it comes just after Doug Jones defeated Roy Moore in the deep red state Alabama, and the big Democratic gains in Virginia, has to be terrifying to the GOP. The question is, will it be enough to make them finally start to turn on Donald Trump… Personally, I don’t have much faith that anyone left in the GOP still has the capacity for independent thought, let alone the ability to consider what would be best for the American people, but the next few weeks could be very interesting.
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[Technically, there’s still a chance that Lamb could lose, given that he’s only up 500-some votes, and there are still absentee votes to count. I feel confident enough to call it, though. And I’ve never been wrong.]
