{"id":375765,"date":"2018-09-02T02:17:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T01:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/will-the-democrats-catch-a-blue-wave\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T02:17:47","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T01:17:47","slug":"will-the-democrats-catch-a-blue-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/will-the-democrats-catch-a-blue-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Democrats Catch a “Blue Wave”?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Within of the Andrew Gillum\u2019s upset Democratic primary win to become the first-ever African American candidate for Florida governor, his Trumpite Republican opponent Ron DeSantis warned Florida voters not to \u201cmonkey up\u201d the state by voting for Gillum.<\/p>\n

The Trump Republicans don\u2019t even try to hide their racism behind so-called \u201cdog whistles\u201d (meaning when politicians use coded language that their supporters understand as racism).<\/p>\n

Instead, they reach for the bullhorn.<\/p>\n

Championing Medicare for All and supporting calls to abolish ICE, Gillum, the mayor of Tallahassee, defeated a field of \u201ccentrist\u201d favorites to win the Democratic nomination. He had the endorsement of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York congressional nominee Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.<\/p>\n

Gillum will face a tough fight with DeSantis, who has already shown that he\u2019s willing to go into the gutter to defeat him. But his victory on Tuesday stands out from other Democratic primary races for a couple of reasons.<\/p>\n

First, it was <\/span>a win for the Sanders wing of the party<\/a>, which has more often <\/span>fallen short of victory<\/a> <\/span>during this primary season. And second, the statewide Democratic vote in this closely divided \u201cswing state\u201d trailed Republican turnout \u2014 a break in the pattern this primary season of higher Democratic Party mobilization, compared to Republicans.<\/p>\n

This last factor may be just an exception due to competitive Republican primary contests as well. But it\u2019s one of the statistics that political analysts are looking at in assessing the coming midterm elections.<\/p>\n

The Building Blue Wave<\/h2>\n

Through most of the summer, each time a forecaster updated their predictions, it was bad news for Republicans. One analyst, Inside Election\u2019s Nathan L. Gonzalez, <\/span>predicted that 86 seats in the House of Representatives are \u201cin play\u201d<\/a> <\/span>\u2014 meaning either main party is given a chance of winning.<\/p>\n

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Within of the Andrew Gillum\u2019s upset Democratic primary win to become the first-ever African American candidate for Florida governor, his Trumpite Republican opponent Ron DeSantis warned Florida voters not to \u201cmonkey up\u201d the state by voting for Gillum. The Trump Republicans don\u2019t even try to hide their racism behind so-called \u201cdog whistles\u201d (meaning when politicians […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-375765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}