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I'm an outsider looking at the race from a distance, but I know a little about Texas. It's full of small little towns and communities that never get the attention that goes to Dallas/Ft.Worth or Houston or Austin.
Beto has been visiting all those little towns, and listening and talking to their people. One thing I know about small towns is the folks who live in them are used to being ignored by politicians, but being used to it doesn't mean they like it. They want to be heard just as much as the big-city folks.
There aren't enough of them to ever win an election over the big cities, but in a tight race, they could make all the difference. Beto knows that.
Shaking a person's hand is a hell of a lot more effective than seeing a candidate on television any day of the week.Especially when the candidate who shakes your hand looks you straight in the eye and says he's on your side.
That's all I know. I think Cruz has his work cut out for him if he intends to keep his job. Texas is a big state. Cruz doesn't have the time to cover it like Beto did now.
The real unknown is whether or not the conservatism of rural Texans will prevail when a lot of folks don't ever see anything in their lives changing for the better.
If ever I doubted my vote should go to Ted Cruz even though I kind of, sort of don't like him, the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings put that to rest.
The chicken chit way the Rs have handle court appointments is reason enough for me to never vote R again. Ever.
If a year remaining in a POTUS's term is not long enough to consider a nominee, the pitcher umping the game isn't either. Trump shouldn't get to appoint anybody to anything until this Mueller investigation is over. He may have not know anything about Russians, but it clear most around him was taking bribes and laundering Russian money.
Texans deserve that Grandpa Munster face that could crack a mirror.
And a voice to go with it. Did you hear him speak at the Supreme Court nominee meeting today? He sounded like a fake scripted politician. You can't believe a word he says because he has sold his soul to politics. It doesn't even seem like Lyin' Ted believes what he's saying. That's how fake he sounds.
I'm an outsider looking at the race from a distance, but I know a little about Texas. It's full of small little towns and communities that never get the attention that goes to Dallas/Ft.Worth or Houston or Austin.
Beto has been visiting all those little towns, and listening and talking to their people. One thing I know about small towns is the folks who live in them are used to being ignored by politicians, but being used to it doesn't mean they like it. They want to be heard just as much as the big-city folks.
There aren't enough of them to ever win an election over the big cities, but in a tight race, they could make all the difference. Beto knows that.
Shaking a person's hand is a hell of a lot more effective than seeing a candidate on television any day of the week.Especially when the candidate who shakes your hand looks you straight in the eye and says he's on your side.
That's all I know. I think Cruz has his work cut out for him if he intends to keep his job. Texas is a big state. Cruz doesn't have the time to cover it like Beto did now.
The real unknown is whether or not the conservatism of rural Texans will prevail when a lot of folks don't ever see anything in their lives changing for the better.
Cruz is very popular, despite the left's contention otherwise. And btw, Cruz was in Llano, a small Texas town just this weekend, talking to the townspeople and answering questions.
Many Texans do see their lives improving, particularly small business owners like my husband and I. The optimism is palatable these days.
Beto has had the privilege of using his family name to get out of trouble several times. And as Kibby noted, his body language in the old video speaks for itself.
Beto is a handsome man, but that is the last thing I consider when considering who to vote for.
And a voice to go with it. Did you hear him speak at the Supreme Court nominee meeting today? He sounded like a fake scripted politician. You can't believe a word he says because he has sold his soul to politics. It doesn't even seem like Lyin' Ted believes what he's saying. That's how fake he sounds.
I watched Ted today, and concisely laid out the facts about the large number of documents released regarding Kavanaugh's opinions in over 300 cases. Frankly, the democrats came across as childish, immature, fools.
Per Durbin, the dems had a conference call over the w/e to plan for a staged protest at the hearing, and the protests by "random" citizens were certainly pre-planned and ridiculous.
For months, Cruz has portrayed O’Rourke as out of the mainstream. A Cruz campaign jingle claimed O’Rourke favors open borders and taking people’s guns — claims a leading fact-checking service found to be mostly false. More recently, Cruz said O’Rourke “is open to abolishing ICE,” the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Politifact Texas found that to be mostly true. At Laredo’s North Central Park on Saturday morning, O’Rourke was heckled for emphasizing President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance policy. Until Trump suspended it recently, the policy required ICE to separate children of unauthorized immigrants from their parents. Former Webb County sheriff’s department Capt. Jerry Carmona, a Trump supporter, allowed O’Rourke to finish a pep talk to block-walkers, people who volunteer to knock on doors to help generate higher voter turnout. The two then huddled. Afterward, Carmona, 56, said of O’Rourke, “He’s a real good guy.” But Carmona said Trump is “righteous” in cracking down on illegal immigration. He said O’Rourke underestimates security risks caused by a porous U.S.-Mexico border. So do far too many residents of Laredo, who as Democrats “are one-party minded,” he said with evident disapproval.
Politically, the issue has already flared up in the U.S. Senate race between Republican incumbent Ted Cruz and U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso. Asked about abolishing ICE Friday at a town hall in San Antonio, O'Rourke discussed the need to eliminate fear in immigrant communities under Trump and to find a better way to enforce immigration laws. “And if that involves doing away with this agency, giving that responsibility to somebody else, changing how this agency performs, I’m open to doing that,” O’Rourke said. Yet he went on to flatly answer no when directly asked if he would abolish ICE, explaining that he does not currently know enough about how immigration law would be enforced without the agency.
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