Kamala Harris will campaign in the Lone Star State, not because she expects to win Texas, but because she wants to shine a light on Texas’ abortion ban.
Because Ted might lose. That’s a pretty great reason.
You mean Canadian born Raphael Cruz? It’s disrespectful to call a republican anything but their name assigned at birth.
Doubly true for Rafael, given the bill he introduced
I strenuously object to you claiming that he’s a Canadian.
It’s true, I just strenuously object. You keep him.
If it helps, I’m pretty sure Raphael is just as unhappy about that fact as you are.
He’s Canadian?..how did he run for president?
Edit: his moms a citizen, he didn’t come to the states till he was 4, but he was hoping that was loophole enough I guess
The actual requirement is “natural born citizen”, which doesn’t really have a formal definition. The most reasonable interpretation is “citizen from birth”. While that includes everyone born on US soil, people born elsewhere can still meet that requirement. John McCain was born on a US base in Panama.
Wouldn’t that be the most amazing form of this election? Kamala wins, and the reason the Dems are able to get a trifecta - is because Ted fuckin’ Cruz loses his seat.
Tx has been moving towards flipping blue.
Clinton lost by ~800,000 votes (5% of registered voters) and Biden lost by ~640,000 votes (~3.5% of registered voters). This year, TX is breaking records for early voting turnout, and, historically speaking, Democrats win with high turnout. In just 4 days, TX has cast almost 1/4 as many votes as the entire 2020 election and that’s during the first week of early voting when the polls are only required to be open 9 hours a day. We still haven’t seen the turnout for this weekend or next week, when polls are open at least 12 hours a day.
There will be Trump supporters for sure. But don’t forget Trump received more votes in CA than TX in 2020 and Biden received more votes in TX than NY.
Hopefully Millenials and Gen Z will step up this election to keep the Republicans from bringing back the Lavender Scare.
Democrats win with high turnout.
Lupe Valdez’s 3.5M votes in 2018 was about the same number of votes Beto received in 2022. The shrinking gulf is largely coming from a sag in Republican turnout year-over-year. And GOP favorables aren’t so bad that the party doesn’t consistently beat Democrats in high turnout races.
Maybe this year will be a game changer, but Dems would have to beat a 5-7 pt pad for Trump and at least a 4 pt pad for Cruz. Not holding my breath.
And T is going to New York because he’s obsessed with doing a show at Madison Square Garden.
Really shines a light on what each candidate cares about.
For the curious, this “Pro American Rally” Nazi rally occurred in 1939
At Madison Square Garden, the rally opened with the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag. The mood was jubilant. Attendees wore Nazi armbands, waved American flags and held aloft posters with slogans like “Stop Jewish Domination of Christian America.” There were storm troopers in the aisles, their uniforms almost identical to those of Nazi Germany. “It looked like any political rally — only with a Nazi twist,” said Arnie Bernstein, author of Swastika Nation.
The speeches were explicitly anti-Semitic, and tirades against “job-taking Jewish refugees” were met with thunderous applause. “They demanded a white gentile America. They denounced Roosevelt as ‘Rosenfeld,’ to say that Roosevelt was in the pocket of rich Jews,” said Sarah Churchwell, author of Behold, America. In equal measure to the xenophobia, the speeches were loaded with American boosterism.
Sound familiar?
The real reason conservatives love Israel so much, is that they want somewhere to ship all the Jews in America off to.
Because she’s not a coward, like the republican nominee.
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