Texas 2022 megathread

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I hope that the establishment doesn’t coronate either him or another candidate and instead allows each candidate to try to win on their own merits. That way, the nominee, whether it’s him or someone else, will likely be more battle-tested going into the GE as opposed to winning with the establishment’s endorsement.

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Please remember that even though O'Rourke tried to run a Sanders-lite campaign in 2018, a subsequent review of his track record revealed that he actually took plenty of contributions from the oil and gas industry in TX (about $430K - 3/4 of which were big-dollar donations over $200 - during the 2018 election cycle, which is second only to his opponent Ted Cruz), and voted with Republicans to deregulate big business more often than the average Congressional Democrat during the Trump administration. This suggests to me that even if by some chance he does unseat Abbott, we shouldn't be too quick to assume that he would actually implement good climate & power-related policies once in office. I certainly hope that whoever his primary challenger(s) may be can hit him on this aggressively and make him try to overcome this if he really wants the Democratic nomination for governor.