TX-23 Hurd Retiring

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Battleground Texas!

Definitely more likely to flip than not now. Same goes for GA-07.

Ga 7th is still Trump +6.5. Im keeping that at tossup/tilt R but this is definetely lean/Likely D.

And it was Abrams +2 with non-white turnout down and Kemp’s cronies at the Gwinnett Board of Elections illegally throwing out Asian and Latino absentee ballots. Both seats are Likely D.

You're just insane. Abrams lost, deal with it.

Says the guy who compared blacks roles on plantations to that in the welfare state.

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The Atlantic having a field day on Will Hurd:

Is Will Hurd the canary in the coal mine?
The GOP is losing its future

I could easily see the Dems having a monopoly on the House and the GOP on the Senate, with maybe a few hiccups in between, for the foreseeable future

Not necessarily for the Senate. Obama won 25 states in 2012, which would be enough.
The real challenge is to make sure there are no red Senators in those states, so getting rid of Gardner, Collins, Toomey, Johnson in the next 3 years is paramount.

Then a few populists such as Tester, Sinema or Manchin could beef up the margins.

Alas, the 60 senators benchmark of 2009 is gone for a few generations. In hindsight, what a waste of an opportunity to have let the Republicans slow-walk everything.

Hurd voted against AHCA in 2017 and stood with democrats, we don’t need people like him, we need true conservatives who defend Free Enterprise principles. RINOS like him are annoying

Do you think he's just trying to escape the plantation?

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https://twitter.com/CesarJBlanco/status/1173625982470762496

The Democrat who represents a loosely contiguous house seat will not go for GOJ in the primary, and instead challenge the GOP dude who won a low turnout special.

If I remember this is a heavily Democratic District where are the Republican winning was considered quite a fluke due to abysmal turn out. Hopefully Blanco flips this!