Posted on 11/04/2020 12:37:27 PM PST by LeonardFMason
FOX was breathless in their coverage of Texas last night. "About to turn BLUE?" "Massive inroads being made."
DOOM and GLOOM all around. TRUMP "squeaks" by.
REALITY:
2016 DJT 4,685,047 52.2% Clinton 3,877,868 43.2% DJT + 807,179 +9.0%
2020 DJT 5,858,820 52.2% Biden 5,196,313 46.3% DJT + 662,507 5.9%
Not the best trend, HOWEVER, this is a substantial and solid win. FOX, except for Rove, was amazed at how close the race was in Texas.
2016 + 9.0%
2020 + 5.9%
Nonsense!
You didn’t subtract the fraudulent Biden votes!
No Green Party candidate this year.
Texas turning blue has been a leftist wet dream for the past couple decades
Just like California/New York/New Jersey has been the rights wet dream as well.
The only difference, we know ours is just a dream....
Sun City in Central Texas is basically almost all people who moved to TX during the last 20 years and the Biden signs were almost equal to the Trump signs.
I don’t see a demented, anti-fossil/fuel, anti-2A candidate getting within 6 points of Trump and doing better than Hillary in Texas as a positive development.
Much larger turnout in 2020
BTW - RCP had TRUMP by only 1.3%
MISS by 4.6%.
Needless to say: POLLING FAIL
Yes, I’m a Californian and I know several Californians who have moved to TX (mostly Austin).
My own Californian son is applying to several Texas colleges for next fall.
But luckily for TX, he is conservative.
Fox Commie News Screamed Biden won AZ to stop the
Chinese dollar and stock market from crashing at that point .
RUSH stated it today.
The SEC needs to raid Murdoch Evil media globalist empire today .
They openly distorted the markets .
Arrest the entire election desk commie puppets .
They have Trump 2020 - Make Liberals Cry Again magnets on their cars.
Not all of them are bad, but most are, unfortunately.
1. Many of us in Texas have been saying for years that the Republican advantage is becoming narrower, that 2018 should have been seen as a wake up call, and that Republican Presidential candidates had better start campaigning in Texas like it is a battleground state moving forward. But, as even Nate Silver admitted, Texas is not “purple” just yet.
2. On the other hand, the trend wasn’t all bad. Just as with Hispanic areas elsewhere in the country, like Miami-Dade, Trump’s gains in the Rio Grande Valley were pretty impressive. Trump actually won Zapata County outright—the first Republican to do so at least since World War 2 and possibly ever—and he was actually competitive in the rest of the Valley.
I agree but look at the differential...it’s actually very close and closer each year...compare that to CA..Trump got walloped in CA which is no surprise, but TX is way too close.
Goes to show that Texas shifting purple is largely about liberal immigration and not an increasing hispanic percentage.
Austin just voted to defund the police.
TX as a red state is not going to last much longer at the rate it’s dropping.
There are polls out there suggesting that the people moving to Texas from elsewhere are actually more Republican than native Texans. There was a pretty famous exit poll from 2018 that showed Beto O’Rourke actually winning among native Texans, and that Cruz only won because he won even bigger among the transplants.
It's the same big city/flyover country split we see all over the country.
I’m not worried about Texas, at least not for another decade. Main reason is that Trump is an outlier, politically, in that he gave otherwise-conservative voters who are low-information, plenty of reasons to vote against him (the Roy Moore Effect).
What I see is Cornyn re-elected by 10 points, which is very strong, considering how much money was dumped into the state this year. And, if Biden does win, Texas will be SOLID RED, at least in the short term, just as it was in 2014, when everyone running statewide won by 20%. Even the demographics don’t help the Dems much, as somewhere around 35-40% of Hispanics vote Republican (40% in 2014).
So, sorry Dems, we’re keeping Texas!
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