2020-Is Cornyn Worth Saving

[DIRTYSECRET]

Texas is now purple. A 3 point win for Cruz proves it. Beto is all the Rats have for 2020 and he's going to have to run for POTUS. He can lie his way into the WH just like Hussein did. If he lowers his sights and takes on Cornyn he'll win. Moral victories don't count unless you're a Democrat. Fla./Ga. governors races had no business being so close. I hope Trump enjoys slapping around house Democrats because he'll have to.

[GCC Catholic]

Why did Abbot do so much better then Cruz?

I hate to say it... but Cruz isn't particularly likable.

Lots of us here like him, but it's because we are looking at his positions more than at the man himself. Most voters are looking more superficially; as I remember, lots of folks who were getting their first good look at Cruz in 2016 just saw him as a little "odd"... and so a slick smooth-talking Irishman with an assumed Hispanic name and Whataburger-inspired campaign posters is going to sit a lot better with them than Cruz.

[NorthMountain]

he was hated by both Trump supporters

Any Trump supporter who hates Cruz is an idiot.

Yes, there are a bunch of idiots on this forum.

They know who they are.

[ExTxMarine]

The reasons Beto made such headway in the Texas Senate elections are vast. But, here is a short run down of what I think are the keys items:
1) Beto (who is only 1 year younger than Ted) was touted by the media and his own campaign as a “young, go-getter,” with lots of charisma - he played up to that billing. The college kids loved that shtick!
2) Beto was on everyone’s lips from New York to Commifornia (literally had people in Northern VA asking why Beto was not on their ballot)! He canvassed hard and start running TV ads four weeks ago!
3) Cruz is NOT a great campaigner; GREAT debater, sucky campaigner. He doesn’t have that “likeabilty” quality. I mean, when you think of someone with whom you would like to sit down, have a beer and start up a conversation - Cruz is NOT that guy.
4) Cruz burned a whole lot of bridges in his run for Presidency - many Texans were NOT happy about his methods of blaming Trump for various riots, etc.
5) LAST ONE - Beto was “lightening in a bottle” out the gate! Cruz took a whole lot of time to start getting his message out - I believe that Cruz was probably on his way to a 2-4 point LOSS if not for Cruz’s mass ads in the last two weeks, appearances around the state in the last two weeks and the Trump rally. Cruz really thought he was just going to cruise to a victory.

That’s just my Texas two cents.

[ExNewsExSpook]

Hedi Heitkamp spent $25 million in North Dakota? On what? The state has some of the smallest (and cheapest) media markets in the country. For that amount of money, she could have purchased every TV station in the state and broadcast her message 24/7. Obviously, that expenditure didn’t do much good. Cramer crushed her, and it looks like he spent about half of what she did.

The only possible explanation is that Heitkamp paid some very over-priced consultants and may have bought some TV time in Minnesota markets that reach viewers/listeners in North Dakota. Minneapolis is a Top 15 market, but I’m not sure how much reach they have into North Dakota.

Maybe Hedi’s good friend Chuck Schumer can help with a fundraiser. Or maybe she’ll be like the late deadbeat John Glenn, who still had unpaid bills from his unsuccessful presidential campaign—25 years later.

[ExNewsExSpook]

To be the nominee, Beto is going to have to push aside a lot of older, well-established candidates who won’t go without a fight. And we know how the Dims can stack a deck to give one contender an inside track.

However, Beto’s bundle can buy him the VP slot. And don’t bet some of the frontrunners are already reaching out to him.

[DesertRhino]

The problem is that it was not a three-point victory it was probably at least twice that. But 4,700 south of the Mexicans arrive every single day. And make no mistake...they vote.

[lodi90]

Beto raises money like the kenyan and skateboards like BJ Clinton played the sax. Add in Gillum who can get the blacks wee-wee’d up in FL, GA, Carolinas, etc., and you have the 2020 Dem ticket, IMO.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Running for President while Canadian and his antics at the convention did not help either.

[DesertRhino]

I’m not so sure. Many counties that I am well acquainted with that used to have 60% Plus for the Republican managed to only scrape by with 53 or 54 percent. Texas needs to very carefully examine the effect it’s aggressive recruiting of California companies is having. The influx of people from liberal states and thousands of Mexicans coming across the border every day is beginning to take a toll. And quite frankly women have stabbed America in the back, and it’s a thing happening in Texas too.

[SmokingJoe]

One of the lessons from yesterday’s elections is that the Democrats VASTLY out raised and outspent the Republicans . If you look at that list again, the two Republicans that raised by far the most money (Rick Scott and Bob Hugin), were both very wealthy individuals. I understand Rick Scott contributed $60 million of his own money to his campaign. O’Rourke on the other hand, got most of his unprecedented campaign funds from out of state Trump haters from Hollywood, California and New York.
We are going to have to do a heck of a lot better on the money raising front in 2020.

[The Pack Knight]

I agree with all of those reasons, but think there are larger issues at play, too. We lost two long-term Republican Congressmen in what used to be safe Republican districts: John Culberson and Pete Sessions. Culberson may not be the greatest campaigner, but that used to be a safe Republican district.

Democrats swept the judicial races in Harris County, where mid-term judicial races were always swept by Republicans before. Worse, Democrats also swept the 1st and 14th Court of Appeals races: those courts cover a lot of deep red counties in addition to Harris County, and they were all-Republican.

Texas is becoming increasingly urban, and the cities are becoming increasingly Democrat. Houston has gone from purple to blue, and Fort Worth is starting to look purple. Republicans still have the advantage in Texas, but that advantage is getting narrower every year. In Texas and around the country, Republicans simply must start doing better in cities and suburbs.

[DesertRhino]

No O’Rourke for one term is not a good alternative to cornyn. I intensely dislike cornyn. But there’s really no such thing as a one-term senator. If o’Rourke wins someday, will be there for 30 years.

[TADSLOS]

I’m not so sure. Many counties that I am well acquainted with that used to have 60% Plus for the Republican managed to only scrape by with 53 or 54 percent. Texas needs to very carefully examine the effect it’s aggressive recruiting of California companies is having. The influx of people from liberal states and thousands of Mexicans coming across the border every day is beginning to take a toll. And quite frankly women have stabbed America in the back, and it’s a thing happening in Texas too.

Spot on across the board.

[DesertRhino]

Not to mention, a hard cold fact. If only people under 30 were allowed to vote, Hillary would have won Texas in 2016.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

If Texas goes full California, the electoral collage is lost.

[lodi90]

In Texas and around the country, Republicans simply must start doing better in cities and suburbs.

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Until Republicans want to win as bad as Democrats nothing will change. The other big problem, as I see it, is that many of the big GOP donors are not in tune with the GOP base. They are progressive corportists just fine with single payer socialized medicine and open borders, unfortunately.

[The Pack Knight]

Texas’s electoral votes usually went to Democrats until 1980, and California’s usually went Republican until 1992. Election maps change, as they have throughout American history.

Republicans will probably not continue to win Texas forever. When that time comes, we had better be winning elsewhere. The Democrats will keep trying to win Texas until they succeed. They know they probably won’t win this year or next year, but it’s a long-term project for them and the Democrats who matter have patience.

By the same token, Republicans should be trying to win California and New York in the long run. There’s no reason we can’t. Our people are better, and our ideas are better.

[ExTxMarine]

I hate Cornyn, and I have not voted for him since his first term! I refuse to vote for that part-time Conservative. I didn't like McCain nor Flake for the same reasons - these men were NOT Conservatives; they were opportunists! John "Wayne, but only during election years" Cornyn is going to lose either in the primary or the general during his next run - PERIOD!

If the Republicans know what is good for them, and want to keep that seat, they better find a very, VERY good replacement with which to replace Cornyn in the primary, so that they can build off that victory. Otherwise, the seat is guaranteed to be BLUE!

But, I do NOT think that Demographics is the issue! It is the modern, weak Americans of all sorts of Demographics!

Liberal Leftists who have never grown up, drugged out Hippies who still dream of the Summer of Love communes and today's College kids really think they can stand in a bucket and, using the attached handle, lift themselves out of poverty and into prosperity! They have bought into the BS, Socialist-loving diatribe! And they intend to vote themselves into freebie after freebie after freebie!!

[DoodleDawg]

If he couldn’t beat Cruz what makes you think he can beat Cornyn?

[The Pack Knight]

True, but we can’t just rely on our current base, we have to expand it. GOP donors and politicians are also not in touch with potential GOP voters in “blue” areas, and have no idea how to communicate with them. Why aren’t we aggressively campaigning among inner-city blacks, for instance? They are the worst-suffering victims of progressivism, and the way they are treated by the Democrats they elect is a joke. They would benefit more than anyone from reducing business-strangling regulations, punishing crime, liberalized gun laws, breaking the government school monopoly, the list goes on. We assume we can never break the Democrat stranglehold on the black vote, but have we ever seriously tried?