TX-SEN 2020 Megathread: Early Voting

[Beet]

What do you guys think about Lt. Gov. candidate Mike Collier? He seems okay on charisma, and outperformed Beto in 171 counties that I assume are mostly white and mostly rural. Could he make it competitive vs. Cornyn? If you combine his minimal inroads with rural whites (which admittedly will be fleeting) with juiced up Latino turnout in the Rio Grande valley, and Beto at the very top of the ticket, I would say he could get pretty close if TX Dems start chipping early, like Pollster said.

Or, is Kim Olson the one for that? Running women everywhere seems like a safe bet.

It is pretty silly to focus on the 171 counties where Collier overperformed Beto, given that Beto overperformed Collier substantially overall. Those 171 counties have very few people, in comparison to the ones where Beto did better. Dems should want a candidate who can get Beto+ performance in the Urban/Suburban counties where Beto did well. Keep Beto's gains and expand on them.

Elections are won by votes, not by counties. Votes are cast by people, not by land.

President Hillary Rodham Clinton and Justice Merrick Garland heartily agree

[Beet]

Why has nobody mentioned Rafael Anchia. He seems like a very strong candidate, maybe even stronger than Beto. Am I missing something?

Literally never heard of him. Who is he?

He's a Dallas-area state legislator who has been pegged as a rising star. Represents the Hispanic parts of West Dallas. The expectation has been that if/when Dallas gets an extra minority sink district in the House after redistricting, it'll be his.

If he's really waiting around for the Republicans to hand him a House seat, he doesn't deserve to win anything. Just run for TX-24 or statewide soon.

[Beet]

Wow, this news is awful, just absolutely awful. The Castros have to be the biggest chickensh-ts in history, BTW.

[Beet]

Cornyn raises $3.2M and pushes war chest up to $11M.
https://www.texastribune.org/2019/10/07/john-cornyn-reelection-campaign-third-quarter/

Unless we have a Beto fundraising spree by someone after the primary, it will be hard to find a candidate who can build name ID quick enough to counter the $5M in negative ads they are going to get in March 2020 post-primary.

Any Dem fundraising numbers?

Royce West raised $545,000 and MJ Hegar raised $1 million last quarter, but hasn't announced anything this quarter yet.

[Beet]

https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1314574197725761541?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoo...

Good stuff. I was getting worried after they endorsed all 4 Republican judicial candidates.