Democrats see hope in Oklahoma special elections
By David Weigel July 12 at 6:05 PM
The special election in Kansas didn’t go the way Democrats had hoped. Neither did the race in Montana. And neither, most expensively, did Jon Ossoff’s run for an open House seat in Georgia.
But Tuesday night, Democrats picked up two seats in Oklahoma, a once-blue state where the Obama years had reduced them to a rump party. It was the fourth pickup in a state legislative race this year,*
the only electoral bright spots for a party that is lagging in fundraising and fighting localized battles over leadership and messaging. Michael Brooks, who’d lost a 2014 race for the state’s 44th Senate District, won it by 9 points on Tuesday; Karen Gaddis, who’d narrowly lost the 2016 race for the 75th District of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, took it by 5 points this time.
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