Tight polls put GOP on edge in Texas

[RandySF]

AUSTIN — Texas Republicans are on edge as polls show President Trump and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden running neck and neck in the Lone Star State with less than five months to go before Election Day.

Most GOP operatives in the state still view Trump as the odds-on favorite to carry Texas and its 38 Electoral College votes in November. But they’re increasingly open to the outside possibility that Texas could go blue in the presidential race for the first time since 1976.

The president’s margins in Texas will matter, and Republicans fear that a close race at the top of the ticket might wipe them out in down ballot races.

Five House Republicans from the Texas delegation are retiring at the end of the year and the nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates three of those as either toss-ups or leaning Democratic.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is also up for reelection and will likely face the toughest fight of his career in 2020.



https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/502533-tight-polls-put-gop-on-edge-in-texas

[Vogon_Glory]

1. Texas Is A Different Place Than It Was In Ronnie's Day

Whites are no longer a majority in Texas. They’re a plurality. Latinos have nearly the numbers of the white plurality.

Texas Republicans have ruled through a combination of gerrymandering, misinformation, and political apathy on the part of any coalition that could oust them. Despite the racism of certain members of the Texas GOP, explicit racism was frowned upon by the Texas Republican establishment. This might have continued through at least a few more electoral cycles.

But now the economy is in a slump, the COVID virus is rampaging, and the Texas Republican Party is tied to a race-baiting President whose memes at best date back to the 1950’s, when the Texas political establishment was fighting integration and using code-words.

I hope it’s time for the Devil to present the bill and Donnie has to pay.

[roamer65]

2. TX is going to flip this year.

Mark my words.

[onetexan]

3. MJ Hegar is from Round Rock, an Austin suburb. She is kickass. Cornyn's got his work cut out for him

[Ilsa]

4. Oh, I hope Hegar can trounce Cornyn! nt