All posts tagged "Swing State"

President Donald Trump could take a political hit if Democrats flip a Republican House seat in his own backyard next week.

The special election in Florida District 87, which is home to Mar-a-Lago, could prove that Democrats can end the Florida GOP supermajority in the midterms this fall — returning the Sunshine State's "swing status," Politico reported. The potential victory for Democrats on March 24 would also follow a series of recent nationwide wins.

The long-anticipated race has Democrat Emily Gregory, a first-time candidate and small business owner who has focused on public health and mental health, facing off against Republican Jon Maples, a financial planner and former member of the Town Council in Lake Clarke Shores. The district includes the coastline along northern Palm Beach County....

A voter at a diner in Allentown, Pennsylvania Wednesday suggested that a major change in the swing state could be coming.

MS NOW interviewed a woman named Wendy about her thoughts following President Donald Trump's marathon State of the Union address Tuesday night and what his remarks could mean ahead of the midterm elections.

"What great leader in the entire world would put down their own people and bullying the punishment because they dare to vote against something he wanted? That is our right," Wendy said. ...

President Donald Trump continues to receive bad news about his support from voters, with a Friday report from Axios revealing some 2024 supporters in a key swing state now think "he's full of it" and have some familiar complaints about his leadership.

North Carolina is a state Trump won in all three of his presidential races, and one that has only gone for a Democratic nominee twice in the last 50 years. It has also elected Democratic governors in all three of the past presidential election cycles, though, giving it a reputation as a potential swing state.

In a report from Friday, Axios viewed the results of surveys conducted with 14 North Carolina voters who chose Joe Biden in 2020 but switched to Trump in 2024. Of these respondents, 11 said that they now disapprove of his performance as president, while 12 of them said that the economy is worse now than when Trump took office. The survey pool includes 11 independents, two Democrats and one Republican. ...

Angry voters in Iowa could turn the state from solid red to a swing state because they feel betrayed by President Donald Trump on issues from healthcare to agriculture.

According to an article in Newsweek, Iowa has "leaned Republicans" for nearly a decade, with Trump carrying the state "by 9 points in 2016, 8 points in 2020, and about the same in 2024."

But that could soon change if the latest polling is accurate....

Residents of the small handful of states that will decide which candidate wins a majority of Electoral College votes are speaking out about which way they’re leaning after President Joe Biden's rocky post-debate week.

The Wall Street Journal recently interviewed several residents of battleground states like Arizona, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to gauge their voting preferences in the November election, given the wave of scrutiny Biden is facing from both the media and his own party about the 81 year-old's continued viability. These interviews took place after Biden's Friday evening rally in Madison, Wisconsin and his nationally televised interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos.

51 year-old Pennsylvania voter Johanny Manning told the Journal she voted for Biden in 2020 and plans to vote for him in 2024. However, she said Biden's interview didn't assuage concerns she had about his candidacy after the debate....

Following former President Donald Trump's 34-count felony conviction for falsifying business records in New York, voters have had a wide variety of reactions, ranging from jubilation to fury and even threats against the people involved in the case.

But in swing states, noted USA Today, some voters are still just trying to process it all — and one profiled in Wisconsin is just confused by the whole thing.

27-year-old Damon Anderson "didn’t expect Trump to be convicted. 'I’m kind of speechless,' said the Milwaukee resident, who didn’t vote for Trump in 2016 or 2020 but said 'I was rooting for the guy, a little bit,'" said the report....