The ousted Republican incumbent Lucy Ebel had previously described Ottawa County as "very conservative."

Republican county commissioner has been unseated in Michigan after losing to her Democratic challenger by 20 percentage points.

Chris Kleinjans won an Ottawa County election on Tuesday with 60 percent of the vote share, while the Republican incumbent Lucy Ebel lost, having received 40 percent.

Michigan is a battleground state that will be key to November’s presidential election. Donald Trump won the county with 61 percent of the vote in 2020.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Michigan is a battleground state that will be key to November’s presidential election.

    Friendly reminder that, thanks to the US-backed genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, we saw fully 13% of Democrats refuse to support Joe Biden in the Michigan primary

    This, in a state where Democrat primary turnout was 768,158 relative to Republican primary turnout of 1,113,719.

    This war is going to Jimmy Carter the Democrats in November, if they don’t change course in a hurry.

  • Leviathan@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    A democrat won by 20 points in Michigan?? I’m pretty staunchly leftist and I think that deserves a quick recount.

    Edit: this was very much a joke, you guys are understandably passionate but civility is still appreciated.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      A county commissioner was defeated in a low-turnout out-of-cycle election by 20-pts.

      • Chris Kleinjans 2502 votes (60%)
      • Lucy Ebel (incumbent) 1665 votes (40%)

      By contrast, in 2020, Ottawa County voted

      • Biden 64,705 38.4%
      • Trump 100,913 59.8%

      So, a huge reversal. But in an election in which only 2% of Republican Presidential regulars turned out relative to 3.8% of Democrats.

      I absolutely would not use this as a bell weather for the 2024 election.