Posted on 06/11/2025 3:17:10 AM PDT by cotton1706
Once seen as one of the rising stars of the GOP, U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw now is facing a growing list of Republicans who want to knock him out of office.
Already, six have filed to run against the Houston Republican in the March 2026 GOP primary, and state Rep. Steve Toth, R-The Woodlands, could soon join the list.
"We're trying to decide if it's best for us to continue our service in Austin or in Washington," Toth said in an interview on Monday.
He said he and his wife expect to come to a decision by early July on whether he will jump in. His entry could shake up the field.
Unlike other Republicans in the race, Toth has experience winning races. And while the others are questioning Crenshaw's conservative bona fides on social media and on their campaign websites, Toth has his own 12-year track record in the Texas Legislature that he could lean on in a potential campaign. Toth led efforts to ban critical race theory from school classrooms and end diversity, equity and inclusion programs on college campuses. It's why political science expert Mark Jones at Rice University has consistently ranked Toth as one of the most conservative members of the Legislature.
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When six people run against an incumbent the incumbent wins it would take a Trump endorsement to break the logjam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWBI4hKZSzc
God, I hope so I’ll be happy voting him out of office.
God, I hope so I’ll be happy voting him out of office.
Not necessarily; in this case TX has a runoff election.
You answered my question. I wondered if a plurality won the primary, in which case Crenshaw would be *very* difficult to unseat. Or if there was a runoff, in which case it is possible.
Good. I hope they take him out. Eyepatch McCain is a standard deep state neocon.
That video is damning. Thanks for posting.
More comments mocking his military service.
Like it or not, Crenshaw got that eyepatch after being wounded by an IED.
And here’s the worst part - not one poster would have the guts to call him “Eyepatch” directly to his face. Which is not just sad - it’a also cowardice.
We need to secure our elections.
And stop allowing Deep State to pick our candidates for us.
We also need to run MAGA candidates in EVERY primary for EVERY office.
And before folks go off on Dems...
Our pols are so crooked they could sleep on a corkscrew...
But Donald Dems are the reason Deep State has to steal elections.
We’ll vote for MAGA and don’t give a rat’s patootie about the letter after the name.
I wouldn’t call him Eyepatch.
I do call him a traitor to our republic.
And I will happily do it to his face should the situation ever present itself.
He was elected not so much for what he was , but for who he was. Sometimes military serve is a huge upside for a politician, sometimes it's a huge negative.
For Crenshaw, it seems that this military service was not a positive. The Special Forces bring out the best or the worst in some people. He is a perfect example of the worst of the Special Forces mentality. Now we are finding that the what he was is not so great.
There are better people than this guy to represent Texas.
Crenshaw used to represent the Montrose section of Houston, as well as parts of River Oaks.
-PJ
Benedict Arnold served, too...
GOOD!
We need to purge the WEF minions from our political offices.
I warned FReepers about voting for Crenshaw in 2018..
The eye patch and motorcycle àds won out over common sense.
Re: 12 - fair enough.
[and state Rep. Steve Toth, R-The Woodlands, could soon join the list.]
WEF Dan Crenshaw has got to go and yesterday was too late.
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Daniel Crenshaw, Congressman from Texas, House of Representatives, USA. He won a tight political race to enter public service after serving as an honoured US Navy SEAL in Afghanistan.
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