Summary
Oregon Democrat Janelle Bynum won a seat in the U.S. House, becoming the state’s first Black representative after defeating Republican incumbent Lori Chavez-DeRemer in a closely watched race for Oregon’s 5th Congressional District.
Bynum led by a strong margin in key counties, ensuring a Democratic victory. Her campaign emphasized combatting extremism, reproductive rights, and economic growth, and she received significant support and funding from national Democrats.
While Republicans retain a narrow lead in the overall House, Bynum’s win represents a major gain for Oregon Democrats amid a competitive election cycle.
Finally some good fucking news.
Hey, that’s my district. Nice to make the news!
The Republicans were absolutely inundating the district with the most vile stuff, like how she “voted in favor of rapists.” They dramatically outspent her campaign.
I’m really happy she won.
Mine too! Way to go
That puts the house at 211 RNC and 201 DNC, then? Republicans need 7 more to claim majority.
Right, but every seat Democrats manage to siphon away is one less vote in support of fascism. And House Republicans do a lot of internal fighting. I will laugh out loud if they can’t pick a speaker again, and it somehow affects the timeline for counting the EC votes.
The future will be miserable but I will at least be able to find joy in their failures. The backstabbing and incompetence in the Trump admin will be legendary.
The dynamics of the game are way different with a Republican Senate and president. I bet they’ll fall in line in a heartbeat if they keep the house.
Yep, control runs through California, which is taking its sweet time counting the votes. It will be days before we know who controls the house, although it’s going to be the republicans more likely than not
California’s “sweet time” includes allowing votes postmarked on Election Day to arrive and be counted. You might not be happy waiting but I’m glad to live in a state that values every vote and makes voting as accessible as possible. I won’t say “easy” because our ballot was 6 pages long, but it was easy to read and mark at home, and mail or put in a box or hand to a person.
This is also why people need to vote blue no matter how blue your state is.
Irresponsible to say “taking it’s sweet time…” these days without also mentioning explicitly that this is the specific effect of decades of a GOP cause to sabotage how votes are collected, processed, tallied and reported.
My inner cynic is coming to the surface on this one. I would rather the GOP control all 3 branches so it doesn’t give them an excuse that the “other side” is holding back progress or some other bullshit. Yes it would mean unchecked power, but it might be the only way to open people’s eyes…I can’t even finish that because I doubt even that would happen.
No matter what they can always just say dems did it and their base will say ‘yes daddy’
it’s something.
Countdown until Chavez-DeRemer sues saying the election was stolen or that redistricting was gerrymandering in 3, 2, 1…
It’s the most evenly divided district in Oregon in partisan terms and she ran on a “bipartisan” theme. She’d be pretty hard-pressed to make her case.
She’d be pretty hard-pressed to make her case.
Logic has never stopped any republican.
