Posted on 02/13/2020 11:12:01 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
PFLUGERVILLE, Texas - It’s normal to target new voters ahead of Super Tuesday. Think volunteers holding clipboards at street festivals, malls or outside grocery stores. Democrats in Texas have made it a perennial focus, hoping they can end decades of losses by rousing more voters to the polls.
Republicans here, meanwhile, never really needed to bother - but now that’s changing as worries deepen about their grip on the state in 2020.
With their base not expanding and their margins of victory getting thinner, Texas Republicans have begun spending big on finding more conservatives to vote. And they’ve taken a different approach to it ahead of the Texas primaries on March 3.
Hired canvassers to stand outside driver’s license offices, pushing a petition on gun rights by asking, “Do you have a moment to support the Second Amendment?” People who stop are nudged to identify themselves as liberal or conservative. Finally, things cut to the chase: they’re offered the chance to sign up to vote.
But if a reporter arrives, they scram - abruptly sweeping voter registration forms into boxes, taking down signs, and heading for their cars.
“We’re instructed to break down whenever press is here,” says a man with Engage Texas, the political super PAC coordinating the effort, declining to explain why or provide his name.
The effort is another sign of the intense partisan struggle underway in a state that’s been the GOP’s largest and most important asset but also is key to Democrats’ hopes for future electoral dominance.
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Of course because the Press lies feverishly and wantonly. Never engage with them except with contempt or mockery
How about acknowledging the 25% of Democrats who attend Trump rallies? Does the author think that ratio is any different in Texas? Nice try AP now go away.
More propaganda from the Ass. Press.
Rats may be making progress in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin. But not enough. Texas is MAGA Country.
Truth...
That’s why I call them the Ass Press
They should ask, “Are you a conservative from CA (or NY, NJ)?” The newly arrived refugees from high-tax states helped Ted Cruz beat Beto, and we are grateful.
Until the day it is.
Whatever happens, don’t leave the state solely in the hands of native Texans. They voted 51% for Beto in 2018.
Lots of anti-Cruz votes. He was lucky to eke out a win after the debacle in the 2016 presidential primary.
Uhhh. No.
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| Nominee | Ted Cruz | Beto O'Rourke | |
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| Party | Republican | Democratic | |
| Popular vote | 4,260,553 | 4,045,632 | |
| Percentage | 50.9% | 48.3% |
Blah blah blah. Texas is not turning blue. AP fantasy. /not dinging the Freeper OP but rather the AP
Dems just got clobbered about two weeks ago in a Texas house race they said they would flip blue. It was a suburb near Houston.
It went red bigger than ever.
Those maps are meaningless, IMHO. Show me population numbers, not colors.
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The result — a 16-point win by Republican Gary Gates over Democrat Eliz Markowitz —
Look what the Dems did to Virginia. It used to be a solid red state. Now is shifted solid blue within a generation.
They are looking to do the same thing to Texas. Cruz nearly lost his seat in 2018.
Cruz nearly lost his seat, because Cruz wasn’t doing shit. Same as Lindsey Graham, but unfortunately she isn’t being challenged
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