Trump’s Judge Said No. Trump’s Congressman Lost. Trump’s Party Is 0 for 31.

Moms for Liberty lost Sarasota, a Trump appointee struck down a voting law, and 97 votes flipped a seat Republicans had held since 1999

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Even His Own Judge Said No

In South Carolina, anyone 65 or older can vote by mail for any reason. Everyone younger has to qualify first. If your reason involves work, the state makes you hand in a signed note from your boss along with your application, no later than eleven days before Election Day.

Now think about how you’d get that note—you’d have to ask your boss for it. And plenty of people work for a boss who wouldn’t take that well. Five voters under the age of 65 sued over it—and this week they won.

Three federal appeals judges unanimously struck the law down, including Julius Richardson, who Trump put on the bench. The judges noted the deadline doesn’t account for the real life of working people—like shift changes, sick children, or a car that won’t start.

Whatever South Carolina does next, it has to be the same rule for everybody. That’s the part it can’t get around. Five people put their names on a lawsuit, and now it’s a losing issue for Republicans either way.

The Moms for Liberty Stronghold Is No More

Voters flipped control of the conservative-dominated school board in Sarasota County, Florida, on Tuesday. Megan Tennimon and Beth Mayberry won the two conservative-held seats. Tennimon won with 55% of the vote, and Mayberry, backed by the local Democratic Party, won with 57%.

Bridget Ziegler co-founded Moms for Liberty, the group that’s pushed for book bans in school districts across the country. She chaired this school board for years. She didn’t run for re-election this time, and neither did the other two conservatives on the board.

The board has five seats. Conservatives had three of them. Tennimon and Mayberry won two of those three on Tuesday, and the conservative majority was gone that night.

This was supposed to be their stronghold. On Tuesday, it collapsed.

97 Votes Flipped A 30-Year Republican Lock

Democrat Brandon Dukes beat Republican Scott Timko by 97 votes, winning the special election on Tuesday to fill Pennsylvania’s 12th House District. The seat’s been red since 1999 and Trump won the district by 18 points in 2024. The Republican who held it won by an even larger margin of 30. Registered Republicans outnumber Democrats in the area nearly two to one.

“We made history,” Dukes said to his supporters as the votes came in. He wasn’t exaggerating. Democrats now hold a 103-100 majority in the Pennsylvania state House. Provisional ballots are already counted, and the county confirmed no automatic recount applies.

Two-to-one on paper lost by ninety-seven votes on a Tuesday. November is coming.

Trump Dumped His Own Guy By Morning

GOP Rep. Cory Mills lost his primary Tuesday in a Florida district Trump carried by 12 points. Trump waited less than a day to back someone else.

Mills spent his term under investigation by the House Ethics Committee and the Justice Department—over allegations that included sexual misconduct and domestic violence. NOTUS also reported discrepancies in his account of his military service.

Trump endorsed Mills in February and stayed silent through the investigations. The morning after Mills lost, Trump endorsed the man who beat him and added that he’d told Mills “to get out of the Race, but he wouldn’t listen.”

That’s at least ten candidates Trump backed who have already lost this cycle—as many as he lost in 2018, 2020, and 2024 combined. Good riddance.

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For the comments:

Sarasota: Is your school board next? Tell us what’s happening where you live.

Pennsylvania: Republicans outnumber Democrats there two to one. A Democrat won anyway. What does that tell you about November?