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No Democrat has won a statewide race in Texas in decades. But conditions are friendlier than ever.
There’s a reason no Democrat has accomplished a statewide victory in Texas since 1994.
Pulling off such an upset would require a uniquely talented politician running an almost perfect campaign. That candidate would need to display discipline, calm and poise. Be telegenic and quick on the feet. The candidate would need to be thoroughly Texan and have an identity infused with elements of the state’s cultural zeitgeist. The person would need to run in a halfway decent national political environment. And even with all of those boxes checked, that rare Democrat would still need to square off against an extraordinarily disliked Republican running a lackluster campaign without much support from the person’s own colleagues.
Enter: Rep. Colin Allred.
Allred’s remarkable debate performance Tuesday spawned a flurry of Instagram slides, TikTok videos and X posts. Both in Texas and nationwide, news feeds have been flush this week with clips of the former professional football player rebuking Sen. Ted Cruz for hiding in a “supply closet” during the attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol — a riot by a mob that Cruz himself helped whip up. Others showed him repeatedly referencing the time Cruz flew to Cancun, Mexico, as hundreds of Texans died during the middle of a winter freeze, or hammering him on his abortion stance — an issue critical to white female voters who have been abandoning the GOP in droves.
But an impressive debate performance alone is not enough for a Democrat to win a state like Texas. However, polls, fundraising and a changing political climate have all looked promising for Allred. Today, Texas Democrats are in an extraordinary situation, one that has proved elusive over the past three decades: They have an actual chance of winning a statewide race.
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If you kick him out, please don’t kick him back to Canada. We’re sorry he’s there, but we don’t want him back.
Oh please oh please oh please.early Xmas gift.
You must have watched a different debate than I did. Despite knowing that every word out of Cruz was a disgusting lie, Cruz kicked his ass through the entire debate. Allred’s performance was a textbook example of exactly why establishment Democrats frequently lose what should be easy races.
Cruz might still be hated enough to lose, but not because of that debate. I finished watching the debate and thought “thank God nobody watches Senatorial debates!”
fatass orange needs to take him to moscow when he goes
Idk how anyone could vote for him after that time he ate a booger during a live debate
Man don’t give me hope…
With all the STEM jobs moving to Texas there will be people from blue states going there as well.
I really don’t get how Texans can vote for a Canadian that changed their name? Don’t they hate non-americans and people that transition? Why don’t Democrats rub it in that he’s “not American” and that his real name is Rafael. I feel like he would’ve been old news if any dem did that 12 years ago?
My dad was so mad about Beto O’Rourke bc he had changed his name to be less American, but has never talked about Raphael lmao
He hates the right people.
Do you know how hated you have to be to be the incumbent republican senator from Texas to lose in a general election?
“I like Ted Cruz more than the rest of my colleagues. And I hate Ted Cruz.”
– Al Franken
I have no proof for this, but I just know in my gut that even his family hates Ted Cruz
Vic Berger has some great content about the Cruz family
I remember this actually: Ted Cruz kisses his daughter… it doesn’t go well
Oh yikes that’s so much worse than I thought, she recoiled like a full diaper got shoved in her face
If it weren’t for the parent/child context, Cruz would be arrested for that
You’d have to be a miserable son of a bitch. That’s what Republican House Speaker John Boehner thought of Ted Cruz.
Do it you won’t
A lot of Republican cans hate Ted Cruz here in Texas. They can’t stand him. They think he’s an ass.
But he’s a Republican and that’s all they fucking see in that booth.
Look at who is in office.
The governor, the Lt. governor, the state AG. They are ALL really terrible people, doing really terrible things. And the Republicans here don’t give a shit.
The problem is getting the left to fucking vote.
And that cunt, Kim Ogg in Houston, endorsed Ted Cruz. (Side note, there’s something rotten in Houston right now though and I have no idea what’s going on. I have NO idea who to trust anymore.)
B L E X A S
B L E X A S
B L E X A S
I do not like that boy Ted Cruz
To Allred I really wish he’d lose
The man would easily fill his shoes
And kick out those red state blues
Give the boy a chance to choose
Between facing justice and Belarus
I’m early voting on Monday. Fuck Ted Cruz.
Be still my beating 💓
