“It’s hard because the Democratic Party doesn’t have the infrastructure here like the Republican Party does,” said Kirkpatrick, 39. “Democrats here have always felt like we had to be quiet. But if we were a little louder, people would understand this is a battleground that’s up for grabs.”
Democrats have long imagined a blue wave would roll in to break through the conservative landscape in the heart of the South Plains. It hasn’t happened.
Texas is very winnable if we put the effort in, and even just the effort would force Republicans to focus there over existing battlegrounds.
If Beto hadn’t run a gun control focused campaign he probably would have won.
Kind of surprised I haven’t heard about the current challenger yet:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Allred
His 40 time was a little slow, but a 9’7" broad jump would probably be top five in the Senate.
He’s not perfect, but just from that Wikipedia he’s obviously better than Ted Cruz
He just had a debate with Rafael last Tuesday and I love how he called out Rafael hiding in a supply closet during the insurrection and running off to Cancun during the snowpocalypse.
I might have seen a headline or something about that.
But I guess 2018 wasn’t a presidential year, and that’s why Beto was such a big story
https://elections2024.thehill.com/texas/texas-senate-cruz-allred/
Cruz has been slightly pulling a head, but 6% in Texas still ain’t bad. Allred might still get it, a former NFL linebacker is right up Texas’s alley
FiveThirtyEight gives Harris a 16% chance to win Texas. That’s over 1 in 7. So it’s definitely doable.
He has commercials at every commercial break during football and I assume other times. NFL is the only time I see ota tv.