TX-02: Poe is out

[Brittain33]

 See @judgetedpoe on Twitter

[IceSpear]

Yay, purge all the horrible Texans!

Sadly their replacements will probably somehow end up being worse.

[Webnicz]

link to statement

https://twitter.com/JudgeTedPoe/status/928045037367283712

[The Other Castro]

There are probably more coming this week.

[VPH]

Would be an uphill battle but I think Dems can be competitive here. Trump only got 54% here...

[Indy Texas]

Would be an uphill battle but I think Dems can be competitive here. Trump only got 54% here...

Doubtful. I grew up in that part of Houston and it's all petroleum engineers and oilfield equipment salesmen driving F-150s.

But it got absolutely demolished in Hurricane Harvey, so if a Democrat is going to run there, they should make disaster relief an issue.

[Cactus Jack]

This is my boyfriend's congressional district. Needless to say, giving him the news about Poe was one of my day's many, many highlights.

[Figueira]

Great! I can hardly keep up with all these retirements.

[Nyvin]

Does this make 29 GOP house retirements so far in total?

[MarkD]

Does this make 29 GOP house retirements so far in total?

No, 24 Republicans in the House are not running for re-election. Plenty are running for another office.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2018#Retiring_incumbents

[Skill and Chance]

I think this is the kind of district that would be the most likely for a Dem upset out of nowhere if VA 2017 turnout patterns translated nationally.  That having been said, the college whites in TX-02 are largely petroleum engineers, not federal and state employees.  A lot is riding on whether the college white trend to the left will reach traditionally conservative professions, like the trend right with non-college whites has now reached traditionally liberal unionized labor.  It could be the deciding factor in 2020.