Texas supports DEI for Republicans.
The Senate itself is DEI for Republicans.
She’s a pretty popular figure on the left and might actually get a lot better turnout than Beto (although certainly less with racist white “moderates” but their turnout for Dems has been lackluster). Texas has been purple, but you wouldn’t know it given all the voter suppression and gerrymandering.
Best of luck to her.
Doesn’t that mean she’s just going to abandon the house seat to be between some newcomer and the republicans? Hope it works.
It likely means that her district has been gerrymandered such that she doesn’t stand a shot at winning anymore.
She doesn’t necessarily have a good shot at Senate, either, and the next person in her district probably won’t perform better than her.
But I have trust she knows the landscape better than I do. I just like to assess all the possible things that could go wrong so we can deal with them appropriately.
I think a lot of it will come down just how bad polling looks in her district and whether Talarico brings in enough money. Allred is better than any Texas Republican, but he neither excites the base nor reassures the squishier right-leaning suburbanites.
Whoever runs for Senate could possibly win, I guess, especially if its Paxton who emerges bloodied from the primary, but it’s more likely that it’s a means to show you can overperform and gain a higher profile in the national Democratic party.
I tried to read the article but it won’t open on ecosia due to ad block. From the title I assumed her district doesn’t exist anymore
Not necessarily. Depending on the gerrymandering technique that got used with her district she either got looped into a district that’s heavily Republican leaning meaning she’s likely to lose reelection now, or looped into the same district as another current Democratic Rep based on residence which would mean they’d have to fight over the district.