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Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Kuduski.

It is Thursday, September 25th.

We are 40 days from the 2025 elections.

There were a few special elections that happened this past week.

Republicans held onto the mayorship in Mobile, Alabama, which doesn't seem like a big deal, but Republicans

hold so few mayorships that anything is a big deal when it comes to winning a mayor's office

for the GOP. Republicans won a special election in the Georgia State Senate where Jason Dickerson

beat Deborah Schingley by 23 points. It was, though, a Trump plus 34 districts, so it's nothing to ride home about.

Over in Arizona, a Delta Gravalla won the seat once held by her father, Raul, who died in

the seat back in January. She won by a very large 42. This was a better result than either

her father received in the last few

elections since the 2020 election, and Kamala Harris. These are not great results for the

Republican Party, though none of them were surprising. It wasn't like a big shock. The Mobile

Alabama mayorship is actually probably the biggest deal of the three. Many people had

hoped that in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, Republicans would start voting in these

special elections in larger numbers like presidential numbers, and that would have definitely

reversed the trends in these seats. You know, had Republicans turned out at presidential

levels in the congressional election,

Arizona, Republicans would have absolutely won that that didn't happen, though, and it doesn't

seem like it's happening. Next Monday's episode is going to specifically focus on the Virginia

elections coming up, because there's the Virginia, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and obviously

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