Democrat Gina Hinojosa pulled off a stunning upset in the Texas governor’s race Tuesday, after three-term Gov. Greg Abbott ® conceded the race.
Democrat Gina Hinojosa pulled off a stunning upset in the Texas governor’s race Tuesday, after three-term Gov. Greg Abbott ® conceded the race.
I think this changes everything.
Texas has been a non-voting State for decades. This shows what is possible, and that scares Republicans.
Good. I hope they’re terrified.
Texas has never been that red. The GOP first took over the state legislature in 2003 riding Bush’s 9/11 bump.
And the first thing they did was a mid-decade gerrymander, and the Dems tried fleeing the state to prevent quorum. Sound familiar?
And it was way worse than what they did last year. Between the 2002 and 2004 elections, Texas’s US House delegation went from majority Democrat to 2/3 Republican with about the same number of voters for either party.
Then they started rolling out voter suppression schemes and catering to out-of-state Republicans. They imported a conservative base.
Talarico just put all these down ballot mostly unknown and extremely underfunded candidates on his shoulders and shit stomped the Republican party. If he isn’t the next Dem nominee for president I’ll eat my cowboy hat.
I loved the way El-Sayed spoke and addresses people, I think a 2028 Run would be too soon, but let’s check back in 2032
Honestly, I don’t think I’d want to see him as the presidential candidate next. He’s very young and after being president you are mostly spent as a politician. Look at Obama. He could have had a longer productive career if he hadn’t been president as early as he was. Talarico I’d hope to see for two or three full cycles as a Senator. If he’s then elected president he’d still be young, but more experienced.
At the same time you constantly hear Amercans complaining that their politicians are too old and too out of touch.
This!!! I’m sick and fucking tired of these old ass boomers fucking everything up because “fuck you I got mine”. Get some young blood in there.
The president should be older though, and experienced.
If it came to a 50 year old vs a 35 year old, I’m voting for the older guy. The younger will be spending too much time on Tik Tok.
It’s also not worth giving up an incumbent Texas Senate seat as a Democrat.
Hey no considering opportunity cost, this is Lemmy. We post jeans here
Oh my god you guys literally can’t fathom having a government that actually represents you, it’s depressing
He literally will represent me in Texas.
Getting Obama out of politics quickly was good. Minus the whole he led the country to trumpism part.
The lineup is stacked for Democrats going into 2028. There are so many options – AOC, Talarico, El-Sayed, hell even Michelle Obama if we just want an auto-win. This midterm win sets the next Dem President up so well. I wonder if we could make Senate control filibuster-proof supermajority in '28.
I knew Talarico could do it the very first time I heard him speak over 2-years-ago. He has a solid platform and packages it in a way anyone can understand, including religious conservatives.
They can nuke the filibuster with a simple majority, and simply choose not to when the Dems are in “power”. Hopefully that changes with all the progressives that were on the ticket this year.
Why is Michelle Obama ever mentioned as a presidential candidate? She hasn’t been elected to any position yet. She’s completely unproven as far as being a politician.
Because she terrifies Republicans for starters.
To your points, I really don’t care about whether she’s held governor or Senate position, etc. – there have literally been over a dozen US Presidents who held neither. Being First Lady for 8 years, Running the East Wing, and having the counsel of her husband as First Gentleman would be more than enough experience — far more than any of the other candidates I listed I’d contend.
More importantly, I am looking for charisma and moral integrity, which she has both in droves. Expertise can be sought by her hand-picked cabinet of experts of course. That’s what her personal team is for.
Michele caved to the special interests just like her husband did for her “move” campaign.
The little she’s done has not been promising. And there’s no reason to believe “she terrifies republicans.” I don’t think they’re terrified of people who take bribes from the same companies they do.
Honestly, if that’s really all one has for dirt on her, that isn’t much to me. I think I’ll revert back to my aforementioned points as largely superseding.
Put another way, given her historical polling against Trump, I and any sane individual would’ve taken her over Trump or any Republican any time, any place.
they should just get rid of the fucking filibuster
It’s an effective tool, I think they need to dispense with the written filibuster and return to oral. If you are passionate enough that you want to stop a bill on your own, be prepared to blather
Agreed, I think this is the way. It’s also somewhat self-limiting of senile geriatrics, incapable of standing for sustained lengths of time.
The lazy filibuster must go.
And that may be in reach, given we’re past tie-breaking defecting traitors like Sinema.
We should require all filibusterers to first play Night Bird
I’m not sure Michelle Obama would be an auto win. I’d like to think America is ready to elect a woman to the presidency, but I wouldn’t bet my savings on it.
I don’t know if it’s something she has or would consider, but think she’d be awesome. However I also suspect after 2 failed female Presidential nominations the Dems are not going to be down for another so quickly.
Honestly, I think I would bet mine, or at least half of it. There is no figure more more popular in the Democratic tent than her, and nobody who ever polled higher against Trump’s 10 years in the spotlight than her. While sexism is sadly a thing in this country, I think the Venn Diagram of legitimate sexists who’d refuse to vote for a woman solely on that is a circle with those core maga Trumpers who refuse to defect to this day and thus wouldn’t for any Democratic candidate, even old white male Biden.
Not exactly my preferred pick in terms of policy, and it doesn’t seem like she wants it but who knows. Her husband made similar comments in 2006.
Hmm. Yeah, when you put it that way I can see you’ve got a point. She’s in her early 60s so that’s on her side. And her husband is a known quantity - rightly or wrongly, people are going to assume she would be on a similar path in terms of perspectives and policies. Anyone who can get the Dem voters out. . . well, some people are better than others, but they’re all better than trump.
My father just said he’s been a fan of his for about 2 years. What did he speak about, then?
I guess it wasn’t a full 2 years ago after reviewing the dates in my case. Talarico had some emergent viral moments on the national stage when he and other Texas state lawmakers protested Republican redistricting efforts to skew House race outcomes (and what set off the reactionary response from California).
He threaded the needle flawlessly in resonating between AOC/Sanders/Mamdani-loving progressives, as well as more rural religious conservative given his packaged folksy charm. If I was to ever run for office, my platform and communication strategy would’ve always mirrored his approach (though maybe with a tad bit more El-Sayed bullishness sprinkled in appropriately). He frames wealth inequality and corruption within biblical context, which even though I’m not religious I respect utilizing the rhetoric for good.
It’ll be an uphill battle for her against the state house and senate.
Nope, just the Senate
That was a pleasant surprise as well.
Plus the incoming Lieutenant Governor is a Democrat. And in the Texas governmental system, the Lieutenant Governor has a ton of power over the Senate, akin to the Senate Majority Leader in most other American systems: ability to set committee memberships, control the calendar, etc.