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        Elections

        Democrats Flip a Pennsylvania Seat, Making 41 Since Trump’s Inauguration

        YET ANOTHER

        Helen Tai won her race with some endorsements from high places.

        Gideon Resnick

        Political Reporter

        Updated May. 15, 2018 11:37PM ET / Published May. 15, 2018 11:28PM ET 

        Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast

        Democrats flipped another seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Tuesday night, bringing the total number of state legislative flips to 41 since Donald Trump’s inauguration.

        Helen Tai, the Democratic candidate running in the Bucks County Pennsylvania House District 178, defeated Republican Wendi Thomas on Tuesday night. The election was called after Republican Scott Petri resigned to work as the executive director of the Philadelphia Parking Authority. In the district, President Trump narrowly won 50-47, but underperformed 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney who won 56-43 against former president Obama.

        In a sign of the growing importance of these local races to national Democrats, former vice president Joe Biden weighed in with his endorsement for Tai this month. Former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley, whose PAC Win Back Your State is focusing on these down-ballot races, also endorsed Tai and he recently made an in-person appearance at her campaign office.

        That combination of endorsements may have helped in another state legislative contest earlier this year in Florida, where Democrat Margaret Good easily flipped a Florida seat.

        Since Trump’s inauguration, Democrats and specifically the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee have been working to capitalize on enthusiasm for various smaller contests to influence change at a local level as well as provide a metric for the upcoming midterm elections.

        They have been successful in a number of typically red districts like one in Wisconsin earlier this year and even surprises in Oklahoma as far back as July 2017.

        Gideon Resnick

        Political Reporter

        @GideonResnick

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