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Connell A. Crooms🌹🤟🏿 retweeted
The gaslighting around the Hakeem situation is crazy. What part of plenty of Black voters do not want him to be Speaker is not clicking? This is not fabricated by white people. And it’s not because we don’t understand what the Speaker’s job is. It’s actually because we do.
Precisely.
My main #take on the Jags trades is they saw Detroit get super good with two future HCs at coordinator, they saw how fast trajectories can alter, they grasp how short windows of contention are, and they said let’s push all our chips and worry about the next hand when it’s dealt
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Connell A. Crooms🌹🤟🏿 retweeted
Hakeem Jeffries’ district had the largest Black population decline in NYC as his campaign took in millions from developers. For decades, his district was ground zero for deed theft, and he conveniently ignored it until activists forced him to address it!
Connell A. Crooms🌹🤟🏿 retweeted
Dems are pushing to make the Jeffries thing a race issue. It isn’t. We have been very clear for years that Dem leadership (Pelosi, Schumer, Jeffries, DNC) is completely out of touch with reality, lack any real fight, they’re weak, and they arrogantly don’t listen to the voters.
Ron DeSantis is trying to configure himself to the middle for another run in 28'. We cannot let this man win Florida again.
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Connell A. Crooms🌹🤟🏿 retweeted
While yall were asking why Black folks weren’t at protests, we were busy mobilizing the people you wouldn’t. Idgaf how much yall study us, you will never know what we on, like we know what you on.
Losing votes to and ACTUAL NPA candidate named Neil Gillespie was not on my bingo card. Enough votes to call the race too.
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I've consistently said this would be the outcome. The boogeyman socialist tropes are dead. Speak directly to the people about issues facing them everyday and the label doesn't matter, time tells all.
WOW! FLORIDA!
I'm hearing on the ground here in Florida that Democrats will likely outperform expectations here tonight.
This is what 2 Republicans on the ground told me just now. They are frantic:
Don't pay attention to the raw Republican-versus-Democratic turnout numbers.
It's the Republican crossover vote and the No Party Affiliation voters who matter.
Look at these numbers from a recent Florida poll:
🔵 REPUBLICANS CROSSING OVER TO DEMOCRATS:
• 13% support Democrat David Jolly for governor.
• 12% support Democrat Angie Nixon for Senate.
🔴 DEMOCRATS CROSSING OVER TO REPUBLICANS:
• Just 3% support Republican Byron Donalds for governor.
• Just 4% support Republican Ashley Moody for Senate.
That's roughly THREE TO FOUR TIMES as much Republican crossover support, measured as a percentage of each party's registered voters.
Now look at the voters who could make an enormous difference: No Party Affiliation (NPA) voters.
In the 2024 presidential election, Florida's self-identified independent voters broke approximately:
🔴 Trump: 53%
🔵 Harris: 45%
An 8-point Republican advantage.
But in the latest RedBox Research polling for 2026, registered NPA voters are breaking:
GOVERNOR:
🔵 David Jolly: 55%
🔴 Byron Donalds: 30%
U.S. SENATE:
🔵 Angie Nixon: 54%
🔴 Ashley Moody: 29%
That's a 25-point Democratic advantage among NPA voters in BOTH races in this poll, or a 33% swing!
When you see Republicans leading Democrats in raw turnout, you're seeing how many people registered with each party have voted.
You are NOT seeing whom they voted for.
A registered Republican voting for David Jolly still shows up as a Republican in the turnout numbers.
An NPA voter supporting Angie Nixon doesn't show up as a Democratic voter in those same numbers.
And a Democratic candidate can outperform their party's registration numbers without a corresponding increase in registered Democratic turnout.
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