Democrats Outperform in Specials

In Defying the Odds, we discuss state and congressional races as well as the presidential election.

Shane Savitsky at Axios:

Democrat Patty Schachtner scored a 9-point victory in a special election in Wisconsin's State Senate District 10 last night, flipping a district that had been held by the GOP since 2000 and that President Trump won by 17 points in 2016, per The Huffington Post.
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And that's not all, per Daniel Nichanian at the University of Chicago, there were three other worrying results for Republicans in state special elections last night — though they still managed to hang onto the following seats in these GOP-heavy areas:

• South Carolina's House District 99 had a 15% net swing to Democrats.
• Iowa's House District 6 had an 18% net swing to Democrats.
• Wisconsin's Assembly District 58 had a 25% net swing to Democrats.