Is Texas about to put a Democrat in the Senate? | Colin Allred is gaining on Ted Cruz
Is Texas about to put a Democrat in the Senate? | Colin Allred is gaining on Ted Cruz
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20923017
Nobody likes ted cruz on either side and he still keeps getting votes.
There was a comment made on Nextdoor (yeah, I know) that called him a good leader. I responded (yeah, I never learn) by simply saying good leaders don't leave a crisis like he did for Cancun during the power grid failure. People came in droves to defend him. "What did you expect him to do", "A lot of people left for vacation", "It wasn't his fault the power went out".
This is from people who were directly impacted by it! There is no hope for them.
Ah yes he's not responsible for.... Infrastructure?
Maybe they could do what AOC AND Beto O Rourke did.
It'd be a lot cooler if you did.
so it has been 6 years since Beto, he got close, hopefully his new guy makes it
O'Rourke is such a fucking moron. What kind of pants-on-head, helmet-wearing, short-bus riding, genetic defect of a village idiot tells people in Texas, "Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47"? And it's going to be even worse now, because more and more Democratic-leaning voters own firearms than did in 2019. It's so goddamn infuriating, because by every possible metric, Cruz is a godawful human and has zero principles.
If Dems dropped gun and magazine restrictions/bans entirely, and never brought it up again, they could peel off significant numbers of single-issue Republicans, just like Republicans could peel off a lot of single-issue Democrats is they entirely dropped abortion/birth control restrictions/bans. (And, in both cases, you're better off addressing root causes.)
in another 6 years it'll be this guy and other one after that. i stopped believing in meaningful democratic prognostications in texas 35 years ago.
October 21st, early voting starts.