Posted on 09/13/2019 7:59:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
To date, five congressmen from Texas have resigned instead of seeking re-election in 2020. Their resignations signal two things from GOP leadership. The first is the realization that Texas is now lost. The second is that this loss is due entirely to the changing demographics resulting from legal and illegal immigration.
The five congressmen that have resigned are Bill Flores (17th), Will Hurd (23rd), Pete Olson (22nd), Kenny Marchant (24th), and Mike Conaway (11th). Of these five, Congressman Conaway is unique in that his district will likely remain red for some time. He has not faced an opponent in numerous election cycles.
Congressman Hurd’s district 23 has always been very competitive with the victors winning the general elections by an average of about 1% in the last three elections. The district follows the border with Mexico, and it is a bit surprising that Republicans have been able to get elected at all considering it is 24% white and 69% Hispanic.
In 2012 and 2016, the Republican in district 23 was able to outspend opponents by a margin of 2 to 1. In 2018, the Democrats actually outspent the Republicans in that district by a slight margin of 6 to 5. The fact that the Republican was the incumbent was likely the sole deciding factor in the Republican victory. With that same Democratic candidate already raising close to $600,000 for 2020, the GOP leadership saw this district as not worth the $5 million they spent in 2018. District 23 is now permanently blue.
Districts 17, 22, and 24 follow the pattern already seen in district 23. With massive numbers of legal and illegal migrants, the demographics of those districts has caused a gradual and undeniable shift from Republican to Democrat.
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Beto spent the most money in the history of Senate campaigns in an off election year, against an unpopular incumbent and still couldn’t win.
Lets see how much time the Democrat Presidential Candidate spends in Texas, probably as much as Trump spends in Calif.
Keep Texas red ping!
Ted barely even campaigned. He didn’t come north at all.
Thanks for the ping. We need to wake up and work hard to stay red. It’s not lost yet.
It is definitely going to take hard work in a world that has become “sympathetic” to people who don’t even belong here in the first place. We will be hounded and called vale names and be threatened.
How did a “Commie-Red Wave” become a “Blue Wave”?
“Once Texas falls it truly is over.”
Not going to happen. But if it did, it would only be the beginning of the war. One with real bullets, many not from AR’s or AK’s.
I think the deep state had stuff on them... the same kind of crap they tried to pull on President Trump. God willing deep state thugs will be in prison some day and many books will be written about the traitors.
“How did a ‘Commie-Red Wave’ become a ‘Blue Wave’”?
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That’s our “beloved” media for you, the propaganda arm of the democrap party.
Back in the Reagan era, all the states he carried....most of the map of the U.S.A......were colored blue.
The democrats didn’t like being associated with the color red...the color of communists, which they are.....so their co-horts in the media obliged by flipping the colors.
President Trump is right....the media IS the enemy.
The whole west and southwest is going blue
So what do the reds do? Where do we go?
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