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After not endorsing Harris, Rashida Tlaib secures win in Michigan (www.middleeasteye.net)

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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.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

What was the breakdown of the district's vote in the presidential election? I'm surprised that wasn't included in the article. It seems extremely pertinent.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

WTF?

[–] would_be_appreciated@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Not unusual, and not a bad thing. They called a number of races with less than that. If you're taking your expected percentages with the voting samples you've got and your statistics and calculations say there's less than a 1% chance the race will flip, you might as well call it. They're pretty much never wrong when they make a call that early.

It also doesn't actually matter because the AP isn't who decides the winner.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I do have a problem with it slightly though, calling a result before pokls close elsewhere is problematic. All reporting should be embargoed until the last poll closes.

[–] would_be_appreciated@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

Not a bad idea, though I'd tweak it to say election officials can't release information, since that preserves freedom of press.

Either way, it's highly unlikely it's ever affected the outcome of an election.

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 95 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Dont expect the Democrats to learn anything from this because their Billionaire donors would rather they lose by promoting policies that don't threaten profits than win and cost the donors money.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 31 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Their billionaire donors don't lose, that's the point. Reps are following the same main purpose of allowing barely restricted capital accumulation.

To know what happens in US politics when the donors are seeing even the distant possiblity of losing one day, ask Black Panthers for example.

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Im very familiar with the BPP and model my contributions to direcr action orgs around their principles as well as the desire to set up parallel power structure. Without the rank and file or our own power structures, there is no foundation or material support for revolution. We're not even in a position where violence could help us yet. In short, unfortunatly, at this point it seems things need to get worse before they can get better, if they can get better.

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