Imagine if a Republican won an upset mayoral election in San Francisco or Boston or Seattle. That'd be a massive story, with political reporters teasing out all kinds of trends from it. Well, a Democrat just won an upset in Jacksonville, which is bigger than all those cities.
Jacksonville is the 12th biggest city in the nation. It has been represented by Republicans for almost all of the last thirty years -- the lone exception being a one-term Democrat in 2011-2015. This is a big deal. jaxtrib.org/2023/05/16/don…
@KevinMKruse I had to "look" it up. Jacksonville is twice the size of Miami.
@KevinMKruse @JoeNBC Hey, Colorado Springs just voted in a Nigerian immigrant Independent after 45 years of Republicans mayor's, cover that, we have been ground zero for the religious right for decades, and we just flipped a GOP mayor!
@KevinMKruse Interesting. But Biden carried Jacksonville, while Trump lost overwhelmingly in those other cities. Not exactly comparable.
@KevinMKruse Isn’t Jacksonville kind of a blue bubble? I’d think this is more like a Republican winning in say Sacramento. Surprising but not assumption-shattering.
@KevinMKruse @Kenny_Mayne Citing land mass as "largest" is wildly disingenuous. Population of Seattle, Boston and San Francisco are all bigger. Empty land doesn't vote