Dan Patrick thinking about running for Texas senate 2020.

[lfromnj]

https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/1070872773805907968

He can win the primary against Cornyn as a teapartier but he would be horrible in a GE.

[lfromnj]

Texas GOP: we just saw that suburbs are massively trending against us and rural hicks are already voting for us at maximum capacity. How do we get more voters
A. Moderating rhetoric and focusing on being a buisiness friendly party with moderate socially conservative policies
B. doubling down on the rhetoric causing us to lose Tarrant county and other suburbs but gets 2 more hick voters to turnout.

[lfromnj]

anyway even if Dan patrick loses he will force Cornyn to make crazy statements to appeal to the base. This can really cost him a lot of moderate support. Cruz was never forced to make crazy statements and generally tried to stay relatively moderate than he normally would because of Beto. Remember he sponsored an anti child seperation bill. It was obvious why. Corynyn won't have that luxury.

[lfromnj]

Wait when did Dan Patrick move to Texas and isn’t he just a sports commentator on ESPN and later NBC .

dan patrick is the texas LT governor. its a quite powerful position. he only won by 5 points this november and is also unpopular due to his extreme conservative positions on school funding and also social issues. Imagine mourdock 2.0

[lfromnj]

Praying he runs. He only won reelection as Lt Governor by 4.9 points

More importantly he only got 0.4 percent more of the vote than cruz

[lfromnj]

Joe Straus for senate

If 2022 is a trump midterm and abbot retires the Texas gop will have to nominate a moderate like Strauss or Emmet to survive