Texas megathread

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The Dems have few options in terms of potential candidates. Lina Hidalgo?

I really hope not. She should wait until 2030 or when Texas is "there yet"

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Might as well convert this into a general TX 2022 Elections megathread or else it's just gonna be circular discussions on how Dems have no chance against Abbott and complete shock-and-awe when Abbott eventually wins (B I D E N M I D T E R M and all)

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Abbott will win comfortably.

My eyes are scorching from this hot take

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Seems there's this unofficial quota where someone has to mention how TX-GOV won't flip on every page of the thread

Even in the other/smaller TX election thread, the quota still holds!

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Abbott is still on track to win, but this will likely end up being the closest gubernatorial election in Texas since 2006. If this were a Trump midterm, Abbott would likely be toast.

Abbott would still win even if Trump was re-elected, but maybe by a margin of like 6% rather than 10-15.

There's a lot of unjustified Dem hopium around Beto. Given the way the national environment is moving very rapidly towards Rs, I don't really think anything less than a 10 point Abbott win is in the cards the way things stand at this moment. I'm sticking with my 12 point prediction though it could easily get slightly better or worse for Beto in the next 20 days.

You wouldn't know it reading the Texas 2022 threads on here. 95% of those (and this one) are just folks going on ad nauseum about how Beto is going to lose.