Posted on 07/29/2021 5:27:47 AM PDT by lasereye
i’m guessin this: “... some Dems voted, and it’s likely that Ellzey fared better than Wright with this cohort.”
Maybe if you live in Austin. But, not if you live in Fort Worth.
C’mon man, doesn’t the “widow” always win?
I stopped reading Powerline except for the “Week in Pictures” to escape the odious Never Trumper, Paul. Now he appears on FR. Giving wider exposure to people like Paul encourages them when they should be abandoned in their echo chambers.
The better headline was “GOP gains seat in U.S. House”. By my math its now 220 Dems and 212 Republican. So if the minority has party discipline, they only need to have four Dems vote present to block legislation. We can expect party loyalty from the GOP, right?
I am going to quote Steve Bannon after the May 1 primary in CD6. “The widow only got 19%. The rest of the Republicans together way out polled her. (15,000 for Wright 28,000 cumulative for the other GOP candidates) Sometimes he gets bad advice.” Bannon knew these numbers were trouble for her. Also all but one of the candidates were Trump supporters.
It was about the candidate herself. In the general Wright got 18k and Ellzey 20k. So the voters from the May 1 primary split their votes with the 10k going to Ellzey vs. 3k for Wright. In other words they didn’t vote for her the first time for a reason and didn’t choose her the second. The Club for Growth attacks on Ellzey didn’t help either. The Dem TDS votes might have given him a few hundred votes but not enough to swing the election.
When there is more than one Trump candidate in a primary Trump needs to stay neutral. In the May primary there were three former members of his Administration! Wright was not one of them!
Stealing is now a staple
How much fraud went undiscovered in that election?
And the problem is?
Neither of them beats the liberal.
They already did. The Dem was beaten in the primary. This was between two conservative Republicans and one of them won.
They need to check for vote fraud. Why aren’t they?
In your dreams.
All politics are local.
A congressman’s wife is not necessarily the best qualified person.
I don’t know the race, so I can’t opine on the wife, but as a general rule sharing a marital bed does not give you some kind of hereditary title to the job. There are a lot of republicans who seem to secretly wish we had royalty.
Thanks for posting the numbers! The article was long on narrative and short on the hard facts.
Flame away, but Trump has a bigger record of picking and hiring losers than he has picking winners..
Be fair, Trump doesn’t have much to work with.
Good, successful people for the most part don’t want anything to do with politics these days, and frankly, who could blame them?
Paul is a piece of work at this juncture, given that he is a die hard democrat trying to act like he can frame certain events in a positive democrat narrative. Paul just needs to walk away. I “left” the RNC back when McCain backstabbed America on the Illegal’s vote in 2014.
The idea that Trump has and had 100% endorsement success is a lie in it’s self!
Bannon’s a loose cannon but he often has good judgement. Maybe Trump should reconnect with him
Why don’t people understand? The Demonrats can steal any election they want! There is no point to voting in a federal election anymore. This country is past the rule of law. The Constitution is no longer in force. We need to transition to a new strategy.
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