Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib defeated her Republican opponent in Michigan’s 12th congressional district election on Tuesday, securing a fourth term as the only Palestinian-American woman in the US Congress.

The Associated Press called the race with just 18 percent of the votes counted.

Tlaib secured 77 percent of the vote, defeating the Republican Party’s James Hooper who received just 19 percent of the vote.

Her victory comes amid the backdrop of Israel’s war on Gaza, which has killed more than 43,000 Palestinians so far and has been diplomatically and militarily supported by the Biden-Harris administration for more than a year.

Tlaib has been a vocal critic of the war, calling for the US to withhold weapons from Israel. Her opposition to the war on Gaza and support for pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses have drawn harsh criticism from both Republicans and Democrats.

  • @[email protected]OP
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    Democrats are responsible for winning over voters.

    The voters they kicked out at the DNC to make room in their big tent for the Bush administration, AIPAC all their corporate donors.

    Ask those donors why they did not vote for Harris hard enough. Or the Republicans she was wooing over with Liz Cheney.

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      One Cheney convert in a swing state is worth a dozen liberals like me in California lol. Swinging right is the rational political move for the leftmost candidate. Swinging left is the rational political move for the rightmost candidate, which is why we saw Trump clumsily try to soften his stance on abortion.

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        How many times do you have to be confronted with the absolute, abject failure of that strategy before you start to question it?

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        Which is why the Democrats massively won every swing state.

        A few people in Michigan were not swayed by Liz Cheney. And the Democrats did not want them on stage at the DNC. Alas. Democrats clearly did not need those votes to achieve victory.

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          Look, it’s such an exhausting night, and I really do believe that you want to see a better world. I do too.

          I’m just so shattered that we’re looking at four years of chipping away at the rights of women, LGBT, and transgender people. Four years of degrading all the checks and balances against the president. Four years of political retaliations going unchecked. Four years of aggressive anti-climate policy, inhumane border policy, and pandering to a Russia (and now North Korea!) that is also slaughtering innocents in Ukraine. Four years of middle east policy that is at least as bad as Biden/Harris’s, but likely far worse. And four years of slamming our economy with tariffs to “own the Chinese” I guess.

          A vote for Harris was a vote to make things better. Not everything. Good lord she wasn’t the answer to so many major issues facing the US and the world. But it was an objectively better vote, by every metric, than a vote for Trump, or a no-vote. I just can’t argue any more on that.

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      Doesn’t change what I said, though. Trump won because the average voter wants fascism.

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        Unless you are willing to criticize the Democrats they will not change this losing strategy. Admit they ran an awful campaign and push them to run on good policies next time.

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          I am willing to criticize the Democrats. There’s a lot I would have done differently.

          But Jesus himself could descend from heaven preaching love for mankind and the American people would still vote for Trump instead.

          The average American voter wants fascism, it’s as simple as that.

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            Comparing Kamala Harris to Jesus while she is facilitating a genocide… Really shows how much of a cult the Democratic party has become.

            • @Stovetop
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              That’s a misreading of analogy.

              Let me put it this way. I am a leftist. I believe strongly in fielding more left-leaning candidates. However, I accept I am the political minority. A leftist administration could be the exact thing needed to fix everything that is wrong with the United States, but they would never win an election because the support just isn’t there.

              Americans don’t want leftists, fascism is an easier sell.

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                Bernie was winning in 2016… Until the Democratic party turned against him in the primaries.

                The American people want a progressive. The DNC would rather have Trump.

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                  He was winning in 2020 too and everybody panicked and GAVE their fucking delegates to Biden lmao. All that for the most milquetoast social democrat, imagine if it was a real socialist.

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                  Bernie lost the primary. I am in a solidly blue state and Clinton won it by a large margin. If he couldn’t even get enough progressive votes to win the primary, he’d never have won in the general.