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Former Harris County Attorney Democrat Christian Menefee will win the special election runoff in Texas' 18th Congressional District, according to a projection from CNN's Decision Desk, ending a long vacancy and narrowing Speaker Mike Johnson's razor-thin majority in the US House.

Texas’ 18th Congressional District has been empty since March following former Rep. Sylvester Turner’s death — and 13 of the last 18 months in total.

The current partisan breakdown in the chamber is 218 Republicans to 213 Democrats, following the resignation of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and the death of Rep. Doug LaMalfa. Johnson will be able to lose only one Republican on any party-line vote once Menefee is sworn in.

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[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

30 point shift. He won a place called 'White Settlement'.

If this doesn't put the fear of god into republicans than they're suicidal fools.

[–] Today@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago

My cup floweth over

[–] MOARbid1@piefed.social 27 points 1 day ago

Awesome! Keep chipping away at it!

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

But they have Evil Steven Colbert's baby long lost friend's cousin's who just happens to look like him ...to break a tie always for the evil side.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Mike Johnson is Speaker of the House; Representative of Louisiana District 4. He does not cast tie breaking votes, he’s part of every normal vote.

The US House of Representatives does not have a tie breaking procedure.

435 is an odd number so statistically, as long as someone is not absent, you can't have a tie. That's why the don't have procedures for it like thry do in the Senate, where 50/50 can happen with 100 senators.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

Ah okay that's cool.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

steven colbert's baby brother died in a plane crash when he was a teenager so i'm confused

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

Sonobagun! Retracted.

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump will never allow the midterm to happen.

[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 22 hours ago

The fed doesn't run the elections, and republicans also are up for reelection and need the election to happen.

Even Russia has "elections". The difference is in how rigged they are. We will have midterms, but they might be rigged by the GOP.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

Please be safe out there man!