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Flightmare wrote: ↑Tue Jul 06, 2021 9:56 am

Malawler wrote: ↑Tue Jul 06, 2021 4:36 am The only thing a challenge to Abbott will accomplish is enough of a split among the Republican vote to allow a Demo-rat to win.

I do not get why people keep saying this. The split would happen in a republican primary, in which the democrats have zero involvement.

The winner of the republican primary would be the likely winner of the general election in November. Yes, you would have some voters who are upset their candidate that didn't win and would abstain from voting for Abbott, but I suspect you'll see people undervote Abbott this election anyways due to their displeasure with his recent run.

That being said, the current 3 challengers are likely to all pull votes from each other as they are all attempting to run as anti-Abbott.

The problem in Texas is that Democrats vote in the Republican primaries. They choose the Republican candidate (in some cases) that they want their Democratic candidate to run again in the general election. Voter apathy among the Republicans in the primaries makes this a bigger deal than it should be. Too many people think that showing up for the general election and voting for the Republican candidate gets the job done. Challengers to the "establishment" Republicans (like my own representative) who have poor voting records never get a chance. So we keep sending the same people back to represent us who have failed us in the past.

flowrie wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 6:10 pm Maybe he would run against John Cornyn

I stood 2 feet from him (he was speaking at a group event to which I belong) and asked him to do just that. It was before Cornyn was relected. In retrospect, he probably didn't have enough time to ramp up a campaign to overcome Cornyn's incumbent power but I really, really wanted him to run.

Now I really, really, really want him to run for Governor. We need someone with DeSantis' moxey and I think Lt. Col West has at least that.