For months, Texas Republicans have anxiously awaited the arrival of national resources to help boost Ken Paxton, one of the GOP’s most vulnerable Senate candidates.
Its about staunching the bleeding and preventing (more) voters from switching to Democrat. Ive talked to several people who voted red for all their life that are breaking ranks and i assume they’ve seen the same so they’re very scared.
Talarico seems to have a better shot then any democrat in recent history to flip a senate seat, even more than Beto before he shot himself in the foot by going hard against guns in Texas after the mass shooting in El paso, his hometown.
I agree 100%. Beto would have beaten Cruz if he’d had some self-control on the Gun Issue. But his giddy justification for taking all the guns, in TEXAS, was an enormous mistake.
But it isn’t about convincing Texas MAGAs to vote Democrat, that won’t happen, but they might be convinced to not vote at all, and that’s nearly as good.
Yeah, i would have thought that they’d be suffering voter churn by now, but, as others have pointed out an awful lot of Texans (of whatever political persuasion) don’t make it to the voting booth so there is the potential for it to go either way. I’ll keep watching - from a distance. Thanks.
Texas is basically at the foreground of voter suppression, tons of disinformation being thrown around, polling places being fucked with and removed last second, and for district based races, we’re basically the apex of gerrymandering in the states.
Last election tons of blue districts in houston were running out of paper ballots and not getting requisition forms filled, then they refused to extend the poll hours to let people vote, so people in disenfranchised areas waited hours to vote and still got turned away.
Its about staunching the bleeding and preventing (more) voters from switching to Democrat. Ive talked to several people who voted red for all their life that are breaking ranks and i assume they’ve seen the same so they’re very scared. Talarico seems to have a better shot then any democrat in recent history to flip a senate seat, even more than Beto before he shot himself in the foot by going hard against guns in Texas after the mass shooting in El paso, his hometown.
I agree 100%. Beto would have beaten Cruz if he’d had some self-control on the Gun Issue. But his giddy justification for taking all the guns, in TEXAS, was an enormous mistake.
But it isn’t about convincing Texas MAGAs to vote Democrat, that won’t happen, but they might be convinced to not vote at all, and that’s nearly as good.
Yeah, i would have thought that they’d be suffering voter churn by now, but, as others have pointed out an awful lot of Texans (of whatever political persuasion) don’t make it to the voting booth so there is the potential for it to go either way. I’ll keep watching - from a distance. Thanks.
Texas is basically at the foreground of voter suppression, tons of disinformation being thrown around, polling places being fucked with and removed last second, and for district based races, we’re basically the apex of gerrymandering in the states.
Last election tons of blue districts in houston were running out of paper ballots and not getting requisition forms filled, then they refused to extend the poll hours to let people vote, so people in disenfranchised areas waited hours to vote and still got turned away.
Freedumb and Demockracy - Texas Style.
I’m not even going to verify what you said. I’m quite “happy” to believe it.