Make No Mistake:
The GOP is Losing Texas
American Thinker,
by
Joshua Foxworth
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
9/13/2019 6:38:18 AM
To date, five congressmen from Texas have resigned instead of seeking re-election in 2020. Their resignations signal two things from GOP leadership. The first is the realization that Texas is now lost. The second is that this loss is due entirely to the changing demographics resulting from legal and illegal immigration.
The five congressmen that have resigned are Bill Flores (17th), Will Hurd (23rd), Pete Olson (22nd), Kenny Marchant (24th), and Mike Conaway (11th). Of these five, Congressman Conaway is unique in that his district will likely remain red for some time. He has not faced an opponent in numerous election cycles.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
HPmatt 9/13/2019 6:56:21 AM (No. 178567)
It has been 33 years since Reagan - and Texas - was screwed on illegal immigration in Texas. Republicans have been falling all over the state, Has been bleeding out of the cities as we have experienced massive growth from US infiltration by non-conservatives, illegals by the millions, and weak-kneed lying politicians. Our TX-32 RINO Pete Sessions has lived in FL when he was not in DC. He got ‘unexpectedly’ beaten last time by a liberal democrat. Geo Bush was a product of open borders, Rick Perry, Energy Secy allowed Illegals to qualify for in-state tuition....
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Muguy 9/13/2019 7:17:22 AM (No. 178586)
The $80 million Beavis O'Dork senate race showed that out of state money can have big effect.
The Robert Francis O'Rourke seen on the national stage as all-out wacko, had his image kept at bay and Texans NEVER WERE ALLOWED TO SEE him the way he really is, like we see today.
It was a media-driven race--many of the unedcuated thought supporting his candadcy was the "hip" thing to do-- and many of those would now disavow the REAL, outted person they see now...
There is hope in knowing that just because some representative have pulled out of re-election races, that "new blood" will "refresh" things and the old RINOs will be put out to pasture.
The demonrat socialists had a 100% increase in humbers voting in 2018, and STILL did not defeat Senator Cruz.
It is time for those Texans who have more traditional values to become active citizens and vote AGAINST those candidate who want to take what they have earned and GIVE IT AWAY for political gain and the destruction of our WAY of LIFE as we know it into a third world refugee nation.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
anniebc 9/13/2019 8:20:12 AM (No. 178636)
Is that why the loser white guy Beto is still out there acting like a winner? They want us to believe Texas is gone. The article sounds more like Texas is correcting some things. We'll see though.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 9/13/2019 8:20:52 AM (No. 178637)
Also add to the list is the number of Californians moving to Texas in order to get out of the mess they made in their home state. I kind of look at them like the aliens in "Independence Day". They move in mass to a planet, strip it clean and then move to the next. Democrats are nothing other than locusts.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Daisymay 9/13/2019 8:23:21 AM (No. 178642)
I don't think this is true. Are they telling us that ALL of those Illegal Immigrants who are flooding the state are going to get the RIGHT TO VOTE? I know Hispanics who have been here for 30 years and are NOT Legal and have no interest in becoming Citizens. I would bet that's true of most of those Illegals flooding Texas! I think some of those members of congress, who are not going to run again, are just too lazy to make the effort. If it isn't handed to them, they don't want it!
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Lady in grocery store said she moved here from PA cheap land.
Funny she forgot to check out the summer heat .. was miserable.
Told me we killed all the Mexicans and stole their land.
Idiot.
Conservatives in Texas will turn out. Will Hurd is awful not sure how he got elected said one thing then he changed.
Go Trump 2020
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
udanja99 9/13/2019 8:35:18 AM (No. 178657)
Does Texas have voter ID laws? If not, why not?
I was in Dallas on business shortly before the 2012 elections and I drove by one polling place where the signage outside beckoning voters in was written in Spanish. That is outrageous!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 9/13/2019 8:43:40 AM (No. 178665)
If this is true, it needs to get turned around asap.
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Conservatives, keep your powder dry.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 9/13/2019 8:56:49 AM (No. 178680)
Illegals, ex-pat Californians, the insidious indoctrination of university graduates, Austin as the focal center of far-left neo-hippies. Texas is big, but like other states, most of the population is concentrated around the big cities. As they become inundated with escapees from California, Illinois, and the Northeastern Blue Belt, there is no doubt that the shift will be from red to purple to blue. It is up to Real Texans - natural-born or transplanted - to rise up and keep their state.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
StormCnter 9/13/2019 9:07:46 AM (No. 178693)
It's entirely possible I have missed something in this article, Mr. Foxworth's webpage and at Ballotpedia, but although the end of the article says he is a candidate for Congress, Ballotpedia says no Republican has filed to run in the 14th District and Mr. Foxworth's webpage never says he is a Republican. But maybe I missed it.
Kenny Marchant is my congressman and this district is in no danger of falling into Democrat hands, no matter who runs to replace him. Will Hurd's district is always a tossup and has heavy Democrat voter residency.
I reject his premise that "Texas is lost". Texas has never been solidly red and was historically Democrat prior to John Tower's election. But, Republicans need to fight to hold the gains. It would be helpful if Mr. Foxworthy declared his party. But maybe I missed it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
StormCnter 9/13/2019 9:09:33 AM (No. 178695)
Yes, #7, Texas requires voter ID.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/13/2019 9:10:28 AM (No. 178696)
The site’s primary Texan will tell you that Texas was traditionally a Democrat state. When it comes to Texas, she knows what she is talking about.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 9/13/2019 9:12:56 AM (No. 178699)
Find out who broke the number one rule, ''Don't Mess with Texas'' and hang them high at noon tomorrow on the Court House steps. Bush? Pete Sessions? Perry? Texas ain't had a good hanging in ages.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/13/2019 9:14:55 AM (No. 178700)
Oops! There she is. Didn’t see her Reply.
The notion that a state just declares “I give up” is nonsense. We haven’t given up in California. Historically a Republican state, we did have an invasion - from other states. Democrats. Can’t just blame the illegals. But giving up is not an option.
We have several large cities that are self-destructing thanks to the liberals who run them. But as I said the other day, we are a big state. There is a lot more to California than just Los Angeles, San Francisco and maybe Sacramento. Texas is not just its big cities. We aren’t giving up; Texans shouldn’t either.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
john56 9/13/2019 9:23:22 AM (No. 178709)
Texas has only been a "Republican State" since maybe the late 70s. The state went for Humphrey in 1968 and Carter in 1976. Since then, Texas has been reliable Republican. Yes, we've done pretty well -- all statewide offices held by Republicans since 1994. That winning streak may end some day. But even as a Democrat state, it was a moderate-to-conservative Democrat state. Look at the lefty liberal loons that have run (ie, Wendy Davis) statewide and been smacked down. Yes, we have to deal with strong Democrat pockets in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, El Paso, and the Rio Grande Valley and population is concentrating in those cities, and there is a challenge.
But Texas and Texas Republicans are up to the challenge.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
bighambone 9/13/2019 9:28:37 AM (No. 178717)
Here is a thought. Congress should pass a new law to the effect that aliens who either entered the USA unlawfully, or who overstayed temporary visa time limits, and thereafter are granted any sort of amnesty or legalization benefit that gives them a legal immigration status, should be considered to be permanently ineligible for US citizenship.
That way while illegal aliens, through amnesty and legalization programs could attain a legal immigration status that would allow them to legally reside in the USA indefinitely, and work for as long as they abide by all US laws, and could come and go from the USA to travel internationally.
The critical aspect of that is that there would be no possibility for tens of millions of illegal aliens to become socialist oriented voters in the future. The vast majority of illegal aliens, all who are citizens of foreign countries would be happy with such an arrangement that would allow them to legally live in the USA, to work, and to travel internationally.
The opposition to such a proposal would come from the Democrats who consider immigration, both illegal and legal, to be a major Democrat socialist future voter generating machine, especially among the poor, uneducated, and socialist classes of illegal aliens. That’s why the Democrats are pleased as punch to facilitate the unlawful entry of as many such illegal aliens as possible, to keep them in the USA, and to grant them eventual USA voting rights. The Democrats would not be doing that if they ever thought that more than a small percentage of illegal aliens, who would become future voters, would ever vote for the Republicans or conservatives. You can bet your boots that once it becomes impossible for illegal aliens by the millions to become future US voters that the Democrats would immediately loose interest in supporting illegal aliens and mass uncontrolled illegal immigration as they have been doing.
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I hope this is not the case, but Beto coming anywhere close to a win was an indication of the risk.
It doesn't help matters to have California pouring into Austin and combining with the liberal University of Texas student vote.
Austin is like San Francisco now, with homeless drug addicts camping everywhere.
I have faith that Texans will rise up and say, "Enough!"
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 9/13/2019 9:51:42 AM (No. 178746)
This article sounds like a huge wet dream of the Houston Chronicle. Maybe Texas just needs a transfusion of new young blood and purge it's current state of old sleepy RINOs.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
winnie1 9/13/2019 11:00:52 AM (No. 178811)
It may be true but if the illegals don't vote it will remain a RED State.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 9/13/2019 2:41:14 PM (No. 178998)
More proof we need to change our immigration policy, and the Republican party better be focused on electing Republicans. There are quite a few states that will likely switch before Texas does so this is a national problem.
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