Disaster for Democrats in TX06 special election.

[Shell_Seas]

I'm so angry right now because this is my district, (I live in the blue area of the map below). All Democrats in Arlington had to do was show up. I don't have the final turnout numbers. Several of these areas which are red are predominately Black and Hispanic. They were also blue in the presidential race.

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TX06 will be a runoff between Susan Wright and Jake Elzie, both hard-right Trumpers.

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Then, Arlington's mayor race is going to a runoff between Jim Ross and Michael Gillespie. Ross was the big business candidate and Gillespie is a Trumper.

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. Arggh

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[walkingman]

2. I've given up on Texas. For over 25 years it has been a downward progression and

I think the crazy's have won. Such a damn shame.

[msongs]

3. was this not a long shot to begin with? nt

[Shell_Seas]

4. No, we had a good shot. Arlington voted for Biden and TX06 always loses Tarrant.

Arlington could have carried the race if Democrats would have just shown up.

TX-6 county turnout, per the TX SoS:

Tarrant 15.55%
Navarro 16.02%
Ellis 17.38%

[elleng]

5. 'if Democrats would have just shown up.'

So they/we didn't WHY?

[Shell_Seas]

6. Good fucking question.

My precinct showed up, and we are still blue. I don't know why the rest of them didn't go.

[Hawker123]

9. That's normal sadly

And a lot of republicans actually voted for Biden. I see this same thing happening in 22. Many seats sadly will flip.

[yellowdogintexas]

14. Jana would be in that runoff if all of those other Democrats had not decided

they were good enough to win. The Democratic vote was split every way to Sunday which put the Republicans in a running chance to score the top two spots. Which they did.

I know Jana Lynn and Lydia Bean both very well, and am very fond of both of them but I really wish Lydia had sat this one out. I have no doubt she pulled enough votes that had she not been in the race, Jana would be in that runoff.

I am quite certain (other than Jana and Lydia), the other Democrats in the race were just in it to get some name recognition. (or maybe even stealth Republicans on the ballot just to pull votes away from the front runner)

For what it's worth, I can't even vote in that district. I am in TX12; our rep is Kay Granger who was the only member of the House on that plane to Russia. We are never going to get rid of her by voting her out either; I fully expect her to keep running until she just keels over.

[budkin]

7. Dave Wasserman sees it differently

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[Hawker123]

10. Yep just give up 😔

Leave millions in the bank, worked great in Maine.

[ananda]

8. Why do you think Dems didn't show up?

???

[Shell_Seas]

11. Honestly, I don't think that Dems worked hard enough for it

Our state party doesn’t have an executive director or communications director right now. And the chair of our country party was running for Fort Worth mayor, so the country party might be lacking leadership, too.

The Dem I endorsed, Shawn Lassiter, I tried multiple times to get in touch with her campaign and no response.

The only candidate that personally reached out to me, (I’ma precinct chair), was Lydia Bean, and I just didn’t think she was progressive enough.

[ananda]

12. I see. and...

It looks as though they gave up before it started.

I thought Beto and Fair Fight were working here in Texas,
but it's clear we really need a better, more comprehensive
ground game.

[LeftInTX]

13. The district is Republican

It also lost Democratic support in 2020 as compared to 2018. The Democrat got only 44% of the vote

2020 United States House of Representatives elections: Texas District 6 Party

Republican Ron Wright (incumbent) 179,507 52.8 -0.3
Democratic Stephen Daniel 149,530 44.0 -1.4
Libertarian Melanie A. Black 10,955 +1.7

Trump carried the district by only 3 points in November, every other statewide Republican candidate, including U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, won it by more comfortable margins ranging from 6 to 8 points.

Campaign resources are limited....

[yellowdogintexas]

15. this was true all over the state. Democratic votes were up significantly

over prior elections for president but the downticket suffered. We did not take out any additional TX House seats, which hurt us a LOT. There was a lot of Republican ticket splitting going on; they either skipped the top line or voted for Biden then voted the whole downticket Republican.