And how did this county vote 2 years ago for trump.
This is very troubling. Something very worrisome is going on in Texas, Georgia, Florida, and Arizona.
Anchor babies come of voting age every day.
I wonder how many counties with around 300,000 or more people are red?
Duval County, Florida (Jacksonville) is purple now.
Long time former resident of Tarrant County in both Fort Worth & Arlington . . . not super surprising, more and more are moving a little west to Aledo, exemplary school district and in Parker County. IF I ever move back it will be at least as far west as Parker County in Aledo or further towards Weatherford. NOT Fort Worth proper.
Yup.
It had more to do with dislike for Cruz than affection for Beto.
I think Tarrant went for Abbot who easily won the Governor’s race.
Look at the Mexican border counties - solid blue creeping north ... as illegals find more and more ways to circumvent election laws to vote.
The left gets organized.
The right gets lazy. And then blames the loss or illegals, “yankees”, or voting fraud.....so they can justify why they spent the past two years doing nothing in those districts.
Then they move, and cede the whole damn thing to the left, while thy act like they are the tough guys, and the left is full of wimps and soyboys.
Lot’s of Cali and Yankee voters moving to here, and then there is the illegal voters.
Three universities in that county. That doesn’t help in a race where the BetaDem was cast as a “rock star”.
You can buy elections even in TX... spending $20 per vote doesn’t hurt.
TX biggest problem is APATHY... its been so red so long, that it generally has some of the lowest turnouts as a percentage of the eligible population nationally.. generally no more than 35%.. even in a Presidential year.
Folks down there need to wake up, and stop taking the GOP wins as a given.. or they will be sneaking someone in sooner than most think
Is this due more to the fact Ted Cruz has been a turn off to the voters. I don’t think the county was purple when it came to the governor’s race.
Many, many foreigners live there now. In Ft.Worth as well as Dallas.
So soon we will all be voted a free lunch. Many democratic judges were
voted in also in Texas. I think we are just waiting for the fat lady to sing.
It is sad to say but these people don’t want an America as we know it, built on hard work and pride. They just want to drink coffee or wine all day and hang out.
Lets face it, conservatives could have taken the initiative but they blew it. Conservatives have this naive opinion that politics is only fought through elections. And we couldn’t even do this very well with mostly wussy apologetic candidates and insisting on always being reactive and allowing the left to set the ground rules we follow. Conservatives generally have a lot less enthusiasm for activism and tend to play defense if they show up to the game at all.
The left realized all the way back to the earliest days that this is an all out war to be fought on every front. They’ve gone on the offense. For decades we sat by and watched them tighten their grip over education and culture and then move to consolidate their power over other sectors until today where they have control of virtually every major institution in society.
Our immigration strategy is the worst of both worlds where we are almost as responsible as the Dems for allowing illegals to flood in but instead of at least getting something out of it we allow ourselves to be labeled in such a way to ensure that the resulting populations will hate us.
We blew our opportunity to go after the small by growing Asian vote in the 90s. I know some guys like to be postracial but in these times you have to play hardball. It was totally up for grabs and the Reps could have crafted a message of success and prosperity toward them but they sat on their hands and let this demographic fall into the blue camp
We’ve failed to do anything or even think about the root cause of our decline. The highest wall in the world is meaningless if the populations which support conservatives continue to shrink. Western society, even the parts that punch the ballot for the right is under the spell of selfhatred and apathy. We cannot begin to succeed until we realize and start to fix this.
This is the world we live in.
I got banned from free republic for defending Cruz here
I do support trump but genuinely believe the contempt Cruz received from republicans and ?conservatives? Is outrageous
He is the most conservative senator
Yet Lindsey Graham openly suggested that killing Cruz would not even elicit testimony from senators defending him against murder
That is flatly sick
I’m glad Lindsey woke up from his conservative coma to exclaim about the ideological rape of Kavanaugh but there needs to be 1000 times more of that
Cruz consistently defends conservatives
Yet he and his wife are bullied out of restaurants
Cruz is likeable because he is conservative
He won 5 Supreme Court cases for conservatives including cases against GWB
Colleges and universities are violating ethics rules to indoctrinate people to voting democrat.
That is the heart of the problem and can be easily stopped by holding hearings on abolishing the tax exempt status of schools.
Democrats are stealing these elections. Padding the voter registration rolls, then messing with the absentee/mail in ballots to match their registration totals. It’s easy-peezy.
We’ll never have honest elections until we go back to Election Day voting only, no absentee ballots, and paper ballots.
mega millions were spent here .
This race was unusual look at all the state races before
freaking out .
Go Home!
The democrat ‘strategery’ of flooding red districts with left leaning immigrants (legal and illegal) is bearing fruit - for them.
Tarrant County voted over 54.2% for Gov. as opposed to 49.89% for Cruz.
State wide it was 55.85% for the Gov. and 50.94% for Cruz.
It was the candidate that failed to draw the voters but as you say with
the new arrivals Texas is heading toward the blue column. However it
hasn’t been all that many years when Texas was solid blue.
The last democrat governor was Ann Richards who’s term ended Jan. 17, 1995.