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Gothmog

(143,999 posts)
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 08:26 PM Feb 2019

Cornyn braces for brutal Texas reelection battle

The demographics of Texas are changing and moving towards a blue state. Romney won Texas by 16% and trump was held to 9%. Carnival Cruz only on by 3.5%. Senator Box Turtle aka Cornyn is worried https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/04/cornyn-texas-reelection-battle-1142878

It’s all part of Cornyn’s resolve not to become the first statewide Republican casualty in rapidly-changing Texas. He won reelection by nearly 30 points in 2014, but the three-term senator saw Democrats reemerge as a force in the state last year — aside Cruz’s near-death scare, two GOP congressmen in once-safe seats lost. And Republicans barely survived in another handful of House districts once safely in the GOP column.

Meanwhile, millions of new voters have flocked to the state in recent years, and reliably Republican areas in the suburbs outside Dallas and Houston — where Cornyn has racked up big margins in past elections — have shifted hard toward Democrats....

Democrats say that Trump is a big part of why Texas grew more competitive in the last three years, and that Cornyn’s ties to the president will be a weakness in the general election.

“Cornyn has wrapped himself around Trump from the very beginning and he will be wrapped around Trump in the general election in 2020 by Democrats every single day,” said Gilberto Hinojosa, chairman of the Texas Democratic Party. “It will be a competitive race and it's a race we believe we can win even though we won't be able to match the amount of money that he's able to raise simply because it's a presidential election, with Trump on the ballot.”

There are a ton of hard core democrats working hard to turn Texas blue. trump may help accelerate the process.
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Cornyn braces for brutal Texas reelection battle (Original Post) Gothmog Feb 2019 OP
beto should skip out of a presidential run and give the senate one more try Tiggeroshii Feb 2019 #1
You are not the first one to make this observation Gothmog Feb 2019 #2
Texas May be a battleground state Gothmog Feb 2019 #3
Cornyn is against emergency declaration Gothmog Feb 2019 #4
I'd love to see this brain-dead piece of political furniture get his ass handed to him. Paladin Feb 2019 #5
the Liberal Ladies Who Lunch at Tommy's Burgers yellowdogintexas Feb 2019 #6
 

Tiggeroshii

(11,088 posts)
1. beto should skip out of a presidential run and give the senate one more try
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 09:17 PM
Feb 2019

he might even bring it in for the presidential race

Paladin

(28,204 posts)
5. I'd love to see this brain-dead piece of political furniture get his ass handed to him.
Tue Feb 5, 2019, 12:01 PM
Feb 2019

Beto could take him. No doubt about it.

yellowdogintexas

(22,119 posts)
6. the Liberal Ladies Who Lunch at Tommy's Burgers
Sun Feb 10, 2019, 11:29 PM
Feb 2019

all agree Beto needs to go after Cornyn.

he already has the infrastructure and the fundraising capability.
He promised us 2 terms and if he does that he will STILL be young enough to meet anyone's standards for a Presidential run. He is only 8 years older than my daughter.....

I really want to see him in the Senate

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