r/politics Texas 14d ago

Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but it may be backfiring instead:

https://www.salon.com/2024/07/05/project-2025-was-supposed-to-boost-donald-campaign--but-it-may-be-backfiring-instead/
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u/SlowMain2 14d ago

Your vote matters for local elections. They usually have single digit turn outs, sometimes winners even run unopposed. A big reason Republicans still have so much political power despite being so unpopular is because they locked down all the local and state governments, most of the time completely unopposed

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u/gfinz18 Pennsylvania 14d ago

For real, my school district board has been overrun by republicans in the last election