Beto, Biden and Bernie running neck-and-neck with Trump in 2020 Texas trial heats

The Austin American-Statesman ^ | February 28, 2019 | Jonathan Tilove

[2ndDivisionVet]

In the latest sign that Texas can no longer be counted a reliably red state, former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke of El Paso, former Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont are running neck-and-neck with President Donald Trump in trial 2020 presidential matchups in the state, according to results of a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday.

Former San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro and two other Democrats who have announced their candidacies for president — U.S. Sens. Kamala Harris of California and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts — lag a little behind Trump in the very early test runs.

O’Rourke is also in a dead heat with U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, in a prospective 2020 Senate race that O’Rourke, who will announce shortly whether he is going to run for president, appears to have little interest in making.

[Aetius]

Cruz barely beat O’Rourke, especially by the standards of recent Texas electoral history. It is true that it was a bad year for Republicans in general, but so too was 2012 and Cruz won easily that year.

Of course the media will seek out and champion such polls as these in order to try and give them a self fulfilling effect, but the sad and unfortunate truth is that Texas will become less red going forward. Decades of mass immigration (legal mostly, but also illegal) have created a more Democrat-friendly population and now electorate in Texas. Maybe the results of 2018 will light a fire under thr party’s rear end help restore order in the next few cycles, but it’s almost inevitable that Texas will become a battleground state.

So long as white Texans keep voting overwhelmingly for the GOP then a collapse like has happened in California is unlikely, but dominance will end. If whites moving to Texas are at all similar to those who have moved into states like North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, et al, (ie liberals fleeing blue state governance who then continue voting Democrat in their new home) then it’ll be even worse.

[Mariner]

hilarious!

[deport]

U.S. President — Statewide

CANDIDATE	VOTES IN TEXAS	PCT.
PROJECTED TEXAS WINNER
R	Donald J. Trump	                4,683,352	52.4%
D	Hillary Clinton         	3,868,291	43.3
L	Gary Johnson	                  282,655	3.2
G	Jill Stein	                   71,327	0.8
W	Write-in candidates	           29,093	0.3
8,187 of 8,187 precincts reporting (100.0%)

https://elections.texastribune.org/2016/general-election-results/