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Miles Archer

(23,131 posts) Tue Mar 24, 2026, 08:26 PM Tuesday

Democrat Emily Gregory wins Florida House District 87 (the Mar-a-Lago district)

MeidasTouch

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BREAKING: Democrat Emily Gregory wins Florida House District 87 special election, defeating Republican Jon Maples and flipping the seat from red to blue.

This is the Mar-a-Lago district — Trump won it by 11 points in 2024 and heavily promoted Maples.

BREAKING: Democrat Emily Gregory wins Florida House District 87 special election, defeating Republican Jon Maples and flipping the seat from red to blue.

This is the Mar-a-Lago district â€” Trump won it by 11 points in 2024 and heavily promoted Maples.
— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2026-03-24T23:59:45.451Z

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Democrat Emily Gregory wins Florida House District 87 (the Mar-a-Lago district) (Original Post) Miles Archer Tuesday OP

Trump endorsed candidate loses! senseandsensibility Tuesday #1

Great! SheltieLover Tuesday #3

Excellent! SheltieLover Tuesday #2

Mar-a-Lago hit with a bright blue light. democrank Tuesday #4

MaddowBlog-Special elections in Florida, including Mar-a-Lago's district, spell trouble for GOP LetMyPeopleVote Yesterday #5

senseandsensibility

(24,916 posts)

1. Trump endorsed candidate loses!

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Tue Mar 24, 2026, 08:28 PM

Tuesday

Control of state senate goes to Dems!

SheltieLover

(80,303 posts)

3. Great!

Reply to senseandsensibility (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 24, 2026, 08:29 PM

Tuesday

SheltieLover

(80,303 posts)

2. Excellent!

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Tue Mar 24, 2026, 08:28 PM

Tuesday

democrank

(12,589 posts)

4. Mar-a-Lago hit with a bright blue light.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Tue Mar 24, 2026, 08:35 PM

Tuesday

Emily Gregory teaches Trump about….so much winning!

LetMyPeopleVote

(179,565 posts)

5. MaddowBlog-Special elections in Florida, including Mar-a-Lago's district, spell trouble for GOP

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Wed Mar 25, 2026, 11:04 AM

Yesterday

The more Democrats win closely watched races and flip seats from red to blue, the more Republicans should be concerned about the 2026 midterms.

The fact that Dems flipped the Mar-a-Lago district is amazing, the broader pattern is even more important:

The more Democrats win closely watched races, and flip seats from red to blue, the more Republicans should be terrified about the 2026 midterms.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-03-25T12:45:12.698Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/special-elections-in-florida-including-mar-a-lagos-district-spell-trouble-for-gop

Heading into Tuesday’s state legislative special election in Florida, Republicans had reason to be cautiously optimistic. The race was in a Palm Beach district that Donald Trump won by 11 points in 2024 (it’s the same district where Mar-a-Lago is located), and only about a third of local voters are registered Democrats.

And yet, the contest turned into the latest in a series of red-to-blue flips. MS NOW reported:

Democrats flipped a Republican-held seat in the Florida state House, with Emily Gregory winning a closely watched special election Tuesday night in a district that includes President Donald Trump’s home of Mar-a-Lago, according to The Associated Press.

Gregory beat Trump-endorsed Republican Jon Maples in the 87th District, which includes Palm Beach. With almost all votes counted, Gregory narrowly led by 2.4 percentage points, or 797 votes, according to the AP.

The president may try to downplay the results, but it was earlier this week when Trump not only voted for the Republican candidate but also described the contest as “a very important Special Election” while endorsing the GOP nominee.....

The Downballot noted in its latest analysis that if the vote tallies in the Tampa area hold, Democrats will have flipped 30 seats from red to blue in special elections since Trump returned to the White House. Over that same period, the number of seats flipped from blue to red remains zero.

Some will no doubt argue that it’s best not to read too much into a special election held in the winter, several months before November’s races. It’s a fair point. But what matters is how the results fit into the broader political landscape. Republicans are tied to an unpopular president, a growing number of their congressional members are retiring, key elements of the GOP agenda are facing an intensifying public backlash, and they keep losing special elections, including in contests they expected to win.

If party insiders aren’t concerned about their standing ahead of this year’s midterm elections, they’re not paying close enough attention.

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