Texas 2022 megathread

[GoTfan]

Great news. Beto is doing the Democratic Party a favor win or lose. You have to compete.

Exactly. Just because his Dem Prez campaign didn't go well doesn't mean anything.

I guess Klobuchar is also going to lose because her campaign went down in flames too! People need to realize that that primary is its own thing and has no bearing on any of these senators/governor races (just like how people keep bringing it up with Kamala as well)

It's not just that his campaign for president faiked.

It's that he was so hyped up by everyone, including quite a large number of people on this very forum. I remember people on here saying that he was going to smash Bernie Sanders and be the next Obama. That his fundraising numbers meant he was the greatest candidate of all time (after spending months telling Sanders supporters fundraising doesn't matter). Hell, there was even a thread that compared his path to the White House to Lincoln's.

And then it fell apart in the single most spectacular way possible. He burst out into Spanish randomly in the middle of a debate, made that stupid remark about breaking into peoples' houses to take their AR-15s, then had that stupid, STUPID "Born to be in it" interview, which highlighted him for what he was: ego-driven and simply running because he had nothing better to do. Kinda like a certain MA-Senate candidate he endorsed.

[GoTfan]

You Dems do realize the victims' parents were booing O'Rourke, right?

I don’t think Atlas Red Avatars are ready for when Beto loses by 13-18 points.

That stunt of his will not play very well outside of Austin.

These types of comments make no sense. You're living in your own bubble if you don't think people are fed up and have had enough with the lack of any type of common sense gun control - and the objectively terrible way Abbott has handled his free for all gun issues for years. It's not just "Austin" who is upset and glad that somebody finally spoke up and called him out on the issue.

The country has overall moved pretty significantly to the right on the issue of guns in the past few decades. And exploiting people’s deaths for a political stunt plays pretty poorly nearly everywhere in Texas.

See how the background checks ballot initiative did in Maine or Nevada in 2016 (two pro gun states like Texas…. but also much bluer than Texas, especially Maine).

I’m definitely not the one living in a bubble here.

If the US has moved rightward on guns after watching little kids die, then that says a lot of things about the US, none of them good.