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07th Nov 2018

A dead brothel owner won yesterday’s US state senate election by a landslide

Rudi Kinsella

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We can’t imagine this happens all too often.

Earlier on Tuesday, it was announced that the Democrats captured the House of Representatives in America and that they are set to exert a major institutional check on President Trump, while breaking the Republican monopoly on power and ushering in a younger, more female and more racially diverse political generation.

It will be the first time that the party will have had control of the House in eight years.

And as big a deal as this is, it’s definitely not the most interesting story to come out of American politics today.

A dead Nevada brothel owner and reality TV star won a seat in the state legislature on Tuesday less than a month after dying.

And he won quite comfortably too.

Dennis Hof defeated Democratic opponent Lesia Romanov on Tuesday in Nevada’s deep-red Assembly District 36, which President Trump won in 2016 with 68 percent support, according to The Hill.

As a result of this surprising outcome, county officials have said they would appoint a replacement candidate from the same party for his seat.

Hof had nicknamed himself the “Trump from Pahrump”, after the town where he lived in Nevada.

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