Texas is in play.
Both Biden AND Harris are coming here.
RNC heads will explode when Texas goes blue.
@feloneouscat I would pay to see that!!
I’ll believe it when I see it. My recollection is Obama came here several times. Texas is great for fundraising but with our gerrymandered districts I think we have to have more demographics shift due to population growth (or fairly redraw districts). If you’re right - and I truly hope you are - I’d be over the moon!
Biden will be at the LBJ library July 29th.
Harris currently TBD.
People not only have to get fired up, but vote.
@feloneouscat Really? I've gotten excited before but my hopes were always dashed.😥
@ExPatExp88 @feloneouscat no way Texas goes blue this election. the closest we came was 2018 when Beto ran for Senate and got within 2.5% of beating Fled Cruise, but since then we've backslid to a 9-10 point difference and while Dems are excited about a younger candidate, I don't think we have the enthusiasm or the numbers to turn purple just yet.
History is a guide, not a predictor.
Had Beto not been so adamant about gun control he would have won.
I also disagree with the backslide view. If you look at trend, all major cities are blue. It’s the red counties that are dying off.
Which is why Republicans want to change our state laws so you have to win a plurality of counties (think electoral college) rather than popular vote.
We’ve been purple for over a decade.
@feloneouscat @ExPatExp88 which is sad because beto being adamantly pro-gun control is one of the things that made me so excited about his candidacy. i've spent 42 years in this pew-pew-obsessed hellhole and it feels like we'll never do the sane thing and ban guns. even uvalde voted republican after burying children they couldn't identify but for their shoes because of guns. i'm just not seeing the blue wave reaching texas shores anytime soon.
@dietotaku @feloneouscat I felt the same. I too liked his anti-gun stance. But it makes sense to me now after reading @feloneouscat’s comment that that would not be popular in Texas. 😔
Stay excited. That’s the ONLY way change occurs.
@feloneouscat let rnc get wrecked