Posted on 11/08/2018 5:48:06 AM PST by TexasGunLover
For almost 35 years, Tarrant County has been the most reliably red, urban county in Texas. Then, on Election Day, Democrat Beto O'Rourke beat Republican incumbent Ted Cruz in the county.
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Cruz took TX for granted and came across as arrogant, unpersonable and someone couldn’t be bothered to do okf fashioned politicking.
No wonder he was almost beaten by an upstart Democrat.
Look at the Mexican border counties - solid blue creeping north ... as illegals find more and more ways to circumvent election laws to vote.
The left gets organized.
The right gets lazy. And then blames the loss or illegals, “yankees”, or voting fraud.....so they can justify why they spent the past two years doing nothing in those districts.
Then they move, and cede the whole damn thing to the left, while thy act like they are the tough guys, and the left is full of wimps and soyboys.
Its Cruz not Tarrant County.
If Cruz doesn’t learn from this, he will be beaten in 2024.
I can say without any hesitation, here in Georgia, it’s people that aren’t from America.
They don’t have to circumvent the election laws to vote. All they have to do is have babies....and they have lots of them because we pay for them. As soon as those babies turn 18 they vote Socialist since that is where their culture comes from. It’s really not that hard. Just follow California’s history with demographics and voting trends.
I don’t agree with Beto’s politics but he was everything Cruz wasn’t and that’s why he made it so close.
Another GOP candidate would have won big. Cruz should have retired and not sought re-election.
Lot’s of Cali and Yankee voters moving to here, and then there is the illegal voters.
And heavy Socialist rhetoric from white Americans under 40
A lot of fast-breeding muslims in FL … those promising demographic gains are why the Democrats are jamming their thumbs in the eyes of their old base and Jews.
Tarrant County went for the dem governor?
Its not what you think.
Beto was a very charismatic and attractive candidate. Cruz came across as stiff and wooden.
If the GOP had recruited another candidate, he would have won easily.
Tarrant went GOP. They did not like Cruz. Period.
Is Cruz a good senator? Personality aside, does he do a good job?
51.7 percent for Trump (in 2016)
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Unlike Ft Bend County....which has also been reliably red....up until 2016 election, when it went heavily, for ILLary.
The local Pubbie officials/residents are shocked that Ft Bend County Judge Hebert (along with most other local R positions up), were ousted.
They shouldn’t have been too shocked. They had a warning, back in 2016.
My question....Where was the RNC in all of these counties that have flipped...and, in states like AZ, TX, GA and FL?? I did not see any RNC paid ads, for Cruz, before election. Also didn’t see any ground game.
Maybe I missed it?
Three universities in that county. That doesn’t help in a race where the BetaDem was cast as a “rock star”.
You can buy elections even in TX... spending $20 per vote doesn’t hurt.
TX biggest problem is APATHY... its been so red so long, that it generally has some of the lowest turnouts as a percentage of the eligible population nationally.. generally no more than 35%.. even in a Presidential year.
Folks down there need to wake up, and stop taking the GOP wins as a given.. or they will be sneaking someone in sooner than most think
That’s the odd thing....our Gov Abbott won handily, across the state.
Cruz barely squeaked by. Many local Rs were ousted.
How does a straight ticket ballot allow for that?
When the traditional Republican states of the Northeast started going dem, it looked like doom for the GOP. But Nixon flipped the script, he went after southern states, always strong dem supporters, that he felt were disaffected by the dem lurch to the left. Now those southern states are starting to go wobbly. But Trump is flipping the script, he won by taking blue collar states away from Hillary. Wisconsin, Michigan, PA.
Losing Texas would hurt badly. Losing TX and FL would be devastating. But it's not necessarily the end, especially with a President that defies all normal political thinking. He's rebuilding the GOP as we speak. Reagan tried that in the 80s and Bush Sr burned all his work to the ground with tax hikes and a globalist agenda. I'm hoping Trump can redo Reagan's legacy and make it stick this time.
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