[Oscar in Batangas]

My old home district that had been Republican for about a billion years flipped ugly blue this time around. Dang those west coast refugees!

[dfwgator]

I was more dismayed by how many votes Lupe Valdez got. It should have been 80-20.

[Trump20162020]

Notice thee articles only mention the Cruz race, and never the Abbott race. So disingenuous.

[Pelham]

Democrats plan on turning Texas into the next California. And immigration is their tool for doing it.

[pissant]

70 million can buy a lot of votes

[Jane Long]

Ping!

[dfwgator]

I still think Texas is a solid Republican state, but the days of a candidate winning just because they have an “R” next to their name are over. They need to be solid candidates, and while I like Cruz personally, he does seem to rub a lot of people the wrong way for some reason.

[dgbrown]

I think it’s the Bernie-bots, not the suburban mother. He has gotten the younger generation into voting and that would explain all the votes for socialists too.

[Jane Long]

From your link....

In Central Texas, O’Rourke broke the electoral status quo in Hays and Williamson counties, rapidly growing bedroom communities taking in new — likely liberal — residents from Austin.

Hays County, home to Texas State University, hadn’t voted for Democrats at the top of the ticket since 1992. But Republicans’ control of one of the fastest-growing counties in the country has been weakening for years. Last night’s results indicate the county is trending blue. It swung hard toward the Democrats, giving O’Rourke a 15.3 point margin and narrowly opting for Gov. Greg Abbott’s Democratic challenger Lupe Valdez despite the 9-point margin of victory Abbott claimed over Democrat Wendy Davis in 2014.

The flip to blue was less all-encompassing in Williamson County. O’Rourke claimed a 2.8 margin of victory, which was notable given how Republicans have long maintained a strong advantage there. Abbott easily held onto the county, but another statewide Republican — Attorney General Ken Paxton — lost there.

In a coup for Democrats, Tuesday night proved that Harris County has ceded its title of the biggest battleground in Texas. Democrats ended a long streak of remarkably thin electoral margins in the state’s biggest county in 2016 when it awarded Hillary Clinton more than a 12-point margin of victory. O’Rourke grew that advantage this year by several more points.

Perhaps more notable was O’Rourke’s performance in neighboring Fort Bend County, another suburb that had long been considered red but is in the battleground category now.

The most ethnically diverse in the United States, Fort Bend swung by 12 points in the Democrats’ column in 2016. It was an electoral flip that Democrats hoped would be a sign of things to come, particularly given that the county’s demographics could help it turn this diverse pocket of Texas reliably purple in the future. If Abbott’s razor-thin margin of victory — just .3 percent — and losses by other statewide Republicans are any indication, future elections don’t bode well for the GOP.

Beyond the boundaries of Dallas County, North Texas has long stood as a bastion of the GOP’s political strength in the state. But this year, O’Rourke cut into Republicans’ control in several of those strongholds.

O’Rourke narrowly flipped Tarrant County — considered the most conservative urban county in the country — with a .6 percent margin. It was a remarkable outcome in the third largest county in the state, but it offers no certainty for the long-run.

Democrats have also been making gains in Collin County in the last few elections, with the results of their efforts exacerbated in the Trump era. The county easily stayed in the Republicans’ column, but Cruz’s 6-point margin of victory is a fraction of Republicans’ past wins.

In Denton County — just north of Tarrant — Democrats have steadily cut away at Republicans’ margins of victory in the last three elections. Trump’s 20-point margin in 2016 was already a drop from Abbott’s 32-point win in 2014.

Last night, Cruz won the county by just 8 points.

[stanne]

Been living in Texas for years. New York native

Texans are wimpay!!! In comparison. They are giving their state away.

Illegal’s. And California liberals.

That’s all

[nbenyo]

We can’t give up the cities and the suburbs and expect the rural areas to save the day... we have to fix this!

[Lurkinanloomin]

Allowing the colonization of large areas of our country and awarding their children citizenship is coming back to bite US.

[Pining_4_TX]

You hit the nail on the head. Lots of people from leftist, high-tax states have moved to Texas and brought their stupidity with them.

[peggybac]

Just like Kansas.

[dfwgator]

I’m convinced this country is going to have to go through a period of pain, like The Depression, before people will wise up.

[ncalburt]

TX Tribune is not a news outfit .

It is a left wing non profit propaganda front group set up by Cali millionaire invader to TX to help turn it blue .
Soros help fund this non profit propagandcfront group .

Please remove this left wing propaganda .

Its a phony Dem website disguised as a news site .

[onyx]

Texas Electoral Map Shows Us What We’re Up Against

If you look at Texas, if you look at this map of Texas, it is stunning. I ought to take a screenshot of it and put it up there on the Dittocam. I think I will during the break at the top of the hour. Texas is scary to look at this way. It is 85% red except for Dallas and Houston and Corpus Christi and the entire border with Mexico is blue or light blue or gray.

Texas has always been a big Republican state. Thirty-eight electoral votes. But you can see how the Democrats are encroaching there. They think they won with Beto losing last night, because he got so close and because of all the money he raised. They’re now touting Beto as their presidential front-runner, bunch of Democrats, bunch of Hollywood leftists think, “This is the guy because he almost won.”


But if you look at Texas the way we’re describing here, every county — I don’t think there’s a single exception — every county of Texas, starting with El Paso that comes down and borders Mexico, is Democrat.

Now, how many there in that area are here via illegal immigration and otherwise?

PRESIDENT Donald TRUMP "gets this!"




Article links to RUSHLIMBAUGH.COM

[Impy]

Cruz lost Tarrant County (Fort Worth).

ABBOT (Cruz lost it by 12) nearly lost Ford Bend (which went for Shillery first rat to carry in a POTUS race since Johnson), last time he won it by 13 points. The “DuPage” of Texas.

[38special]

Houston and Harris County was overwhelmed by a localized blue wave. It’s downright frightening but if you look around you understand why.

[Oscar in Batangas]

If there’s EVER a Sheila Jackson Lee for Senator fundraiser in my old neighborhood, I’ll be tempted to ask the Governor to send in the National Guard.

...(If he/she/its still a Republican)

[JME_FAN]

Uhm ... No.

The author’s assertion is wrong, as far as it relates to Texas.

Governor Greg Abbot won his reelection with over 70 percent of the vote. Ted Cruz should have had the same margin. He failed to do that because he is widely disliked - not because he is a Republican, but because he’s an a-hole.

The reason Cruz won by only 5 percent is indicative of how much he is disliked - mainly for reason of his despicable behavior during the 2016 election.

Most Texans know that Cruz is a POS. The fact that this Republican senator nearly lost his seat, while the popular Republican governor won by 70 percent, is not indicative that Texas is going “blue,” by any stretch; but rather it is the voice of Texas saying: Hey Ted, you’re a despicable a-hole.”