We're 1,100 votes away from a border wall!

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

A blue border wall that is. All that separates the U.S. from a continuous stretch of Democratic congressional districts from Brownsville, TX to San Diego, CA is an 1,100 vote difference in the Texas 23rd where republican incumbent Will Hurd is clinging to a very narrow margin over Democratic challenger Gina Ortiz Jones. Flip this seat and every district along the southern border will be represented by a democrat. I don't think that's the kind of border wall Trump was thinking about.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/06/us/elections/results-house-elections.html .

[NewJeffCT]

1. I'm hoping we can keep Texas trending from red to pink

If Beto doesn't challenge Cornyn in 2020, he might be a good VP candidate to help GOTV in low-turnout Texas.

[Laxman]

2. Think About The Politics Of This.....

for a second. The people who live along the border don't want a wall. The demand comes from somewhere else. People who don't live in those border districts are the ones who want to build the thing on other people's property. So is the real message, who gives a damn what they want, they're all just a bunch of democrats down there anyway?

[UniteFightBack]

3. I thought they called the race for Hurd already? nt

[BumRushDaShow]

4. AP had to rescind the call

Ortiz Jones is not conceding.

Gina Ortiz Jones Refuses to Concede to Will Hurd in Close TX-23 Race

By MARIA RECIO
Date Nov 7, 2018

The race for Texas’s Congressional District 23—an area that stretches from San Antonio to El Paso—remains unsettled, despite incumbent U.S. Representative Will Hurd, R-Helotes having declared victory over Democrat Gina Ortiz Jones in a hard-fought election night battle. The returns kept moving back and forth between Ortiz Jones and Hurd throughout the evening and late at night the Associated Press took the unusual step of calling back a projected Hurd victory when Ortiz Jones pulled ahead.

As of late Wednesday the Secretary of State website had Hurd leading by 689 votes with a reported 100 percent of the precincts tallied—a margin in which Ortiz Jones was unwilling to concede.

“This election is not over—every vote matters and must be counted,” Ortiz Jones’s spokeswoman, Noelle Rosellini, said in a prepared statement. “Gina’s campaign has been powered by grassroots energy from day one, and we won’t stop working until every provisional ballot, absentee ballot, and military or overseas ballot has been counted.”

Ortiz Jones is not yet calling for a recount, which the numbers suggest she is entitled to; state law permits a recount if the difference in votes between the top two finishers is less than 10 percent of the winner’s total votes. Hurd’s tally of 102,903, means Ortiz Jones could ask for a recount if the margin was less than 10,000 votes.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/gina-ortiz-jones-will-hurd-tx23-race/

She is well within the margin to request a recount.