This outdated partial draft got front-paged while I wasn’t around. I’d take it down now, if not for the conversations in the comments. Won’t happen again, I *hope*!
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Top Trump Donors THIS YEAR
Robert Mercer $13 Mil
Sheldon Adelson $10 Mil
Linda McMahon $6 Mil
Bernard Marcus $7 Mil
Geoffrey Palmer $2 Mil
Ronald M Cameron $2 Mil
Peter Thiel $1.25 Mil
Walter Buckley Jr $1 Mil
Cherna Moskowitz $1 Mil
Peter Zieve $1Mil#VoteBlue2020— Lori Go (@lori_go) August 7, 2019
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/take-texas-seriously-gop-anxiety-spikes-after-retirements-democratic-gains/2019/08/02/d9e9942c-b4b8-11e9-8949-5f36ff92706e_story.html
Yep. The key shift here isn’t that Texas is becoming more Hispanic, but that it is becoming more suburban—and Trump is particularly toxic w/ these types of voters. https://t.co/rUdOosiRup
— Matt Lewis (@mattklewis) August 7, 2019
What’s interesting is that Texas’ blue trend in the Trump era has been driven by white people leaving the GOP, not the much-speculated-about hypothetical future increase in Latino turnout. https://t.co/8GBkzOSeNH
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 7, 2019
The fact that Republican House members are retiring rather than facing their constituents in TEXAS is probably going to be more relevant to the 2020 election than the quality of zinger delivery at a 2019 presidential debate. https://t.co/EW60YGWj0O
— Seth Masket (@smotus) August 5, 2019
He leaves open #TX24, which was O’Rourke +3.5% last year. Marchant only held on by 3% in 2018 after coasting most of his career. https://t.co/4Qx8qUpRMZ
— J. Miles Coleman (@JMilesColeman) August 5, 2019
In 2018, six GOP House incumbents from TX won their races by less than 5%. Three of them (Olson, Hurd and Marchant) are retiring so far and I’d be really surprised if they’re the last.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) August 5, 2019
2018 there were 6 Texas Republicans who won with 51% or less. Few of those districts were even contested. There were also several others where the Republican got 52%-55%. https://t.co/3YNNYrn4xM
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) August 5, 2019
A lot of those guys wore dresses to escape before the slaughter so this is the equivalent of that
— death cab for covfefe (@joesmith54321a) August 5, 2019
If the Trump presidency pushes Texas toward the Democrats, it will be a legacy the Republicans regret for a generation. https://t.co/20hDNcgLb6
— Anthony Zurcher (@awzurcher) August 5, 2019
I keep coming back to the 2018-based measures of Trump’s approval rating among Texas voters–right around 50%, including in the exits
To me, it implies Trump was well underwater in TX24–say, minus-4 or worse–where Kenny Marchant (R) is poised to retire https://t.co/vITO72uG9a pic.twitter.com/MFCzLfNomB— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) August 5, 2019
Republican Rep. Kenny Marchant will not seek reelection in 2020, two sources confirmed to The Texas Tribune.
He is the fourth member of the Texas delegation to announce his retirement in recent days. https://t.co/ZoLhuT3pOw
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 5, 2019
NEW: The much-anticipated future of Texas politics may not have fully arrived – but it has in the booming metros reshaping the state
From SUGAR LAND, our riff on the House #Texodus, new hope post-El Paso that Beto will run for Sen + more
w @mattfleg >https://t.co/dznI4pWNDV
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) August 7, 2019