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applegrove

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Sat Aug 3, 2019, 06:18 PM Aug 2019

GOP Anxiety Spikes In Texas

GOP Anxiety Spikes In Texas

August 3, 2019 at 11:39 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 151 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/08/03/gop-anxiety-spikes-in-texas/

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“Republicans have long idealized Texas as a deep-red frontier state, home to rural conservatives who love President Trump. But political turbulence in the sprawling suburbs and fast-growing cities are turning the Lone Star State into a possible 2020 battleground,” the Washington Post reports.

Said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX): “The president’s reelection campaign needs to take Texas seriously.”

“For a state that once elevated the Bush family and was forged into a Republican stronghold by Karl Rove, it is an increasingly uncertain time. Changing demographics and a wave of liberal activism have given new hope to Democrats, who have not won a statewide elective office since 1994 or Texas’s presidential vote since Jimmy Carter in 1976.”

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keithbvadu2

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2. Rafael, are you going to have your wife campaign for Trump?
Sat Aug 3, 2019, 11:33 PM
Aug 2019

Rafael, are you going to have your wife campaign for Trump?

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