Facing tough November, Texas Tea Party now wants to stitch the GOP back together
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS -- Leaders of the conservative Texas tea party movement who have spent years railing against GOP moderates are now urging their supporters to get behind a full slate of Republican candidates this fall — even ones they’ve previously opposed.
The more inclusive approach comes as Republicans strategists across the state concede their party is out of practice when it comes to campaigning for a general election, a concern in a year where Democrats have fielded an unusually large number of strong candidates to run against them.
A number of prominent Texas Republicans have also endorsed Democrats over the tea party’s top candidates this fall.
“A lot of our fights here in this room, in the conservative movement, have been focused in the primaries,” state State Rep. Jonathan Stickland, an outspoken member of the Texas House Freedom Caucus, told a gathering of the NE Tarrant County Tea Party at the Grapevine Convention Center earlier this week.
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