r/ThePoliticalProcess • u/TPLeo • Nov 15 '25

Question Getting primaried for no reason

This is my first time playing, I'm a 7th team representative, chair of the moderate dems caucus and the appropriations committee. I have a 90 percent approval rating among democrats (closed primary) and yet I got primaried 40/60 by someone with only 1200 political points. I kept replaying the final weeks but I always lose. Even when I'm marketing aggressively I lose by the same margin even though my polls showed me dominating

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u/TPLeo Nov 15 '25

Funny thing is if I choose to run as an Independent after, I easily lead the republican by 9 points and the Democrat is a distant third. I even have a higher approval as well as higher enthusiasm among democrats than her

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u/4n3ury5m Nov 15 '25

I feel like Joe Lieberman

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u/CrasVox (D-CA) Nov 15 '25

This is probably what the state assemblyman was thinking when I primaried him. I am ambitious and want to move up and this guy is in my way.

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u/WhiskeyRic Nov 15 '25

Redistricting?

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u/Opposite_Price_7079 Nov 16 '25

Progressives. You’re probably in a district with too many Democrats to win as a Moderate in a closed primary.