Allen West is great on the issues.
He has some baggage that harms him though.
He will struggle in a 2026 governor primary as he apparently made many enemies inside the Texas GOP as the previous Texas Republican chair.
West started his career in the Florida GOP and then moved to Texas.
Some people attack him for carpetbagging and some squishy suburban Rs hold an incident from his military record against him.
Chip Roy is likely the best aggressive governor option we have.
Another viable option is Beth Van Duyne. Although she is not as based as Chip Roy, she is more electable.
If 2026 is a red or neutral wave year, Chip Roy is the best option.
If 2026 will be a blue wave year, it would be safer to run Van Duyne.
Texas has been trending blue more and more since 2012 so it is important to take any future race very seriously.
We cannot afford to nominate bad candidates who are RINOs and we cannot afford to nominate candidates who are not electable.
It is imperative we nominate candidates who can keep Texas red long term.
No problem!
I definitely have some qualms about Greg Abbott but he atleast knows the easy way to look good is to copy DeSantis on major issues.
I hope that in Texas we can get bold and pragmatic Chip Roy elected as governor in 2026.
The Texas State legislature wasn't able to pass a bill banning covid mask and vax mandates last session thanks to one RINO state senator named Kel Seliger. Seliger has since been replaced by a non RINO. They should be able to pass that mask and vax mandate ban this session.
Abbott claims his executive order banning vax/mask mandates is only active if the emergency declaration is renewed.
Abbott stated that “I intend to keep these executive orders and suspensions in place until the Legislature can enact laws this session to prohibit local governments from imposing restrictions like mask mandates and vaccine mandates,” Abbott’s declaration reads, adding that his renewal “in no way infringes on the rights or liberties of any law-abiding Texans.”
We will see if he ends the declaration when they pass the vax and mask mandate bans.
You are interpreting everything as snark.
What can I say?
This is just stupid cultism.
You are telling me to fuck off just because I don't want to run Trump again.
Why does this piss you off this much?
I honestly can't understand why you guys are this attached to this one man.
I am certain we have 90+ percent of the same political positions on key issues such as stopping mass immigration, protecting the 1st and 2nd amendment, protecting individual medical choice regarding the vaxes as well as stopping the spread of globalism and wokeness.
We merely disagree on who should be the 2024 nominee.
I just want someone who can actually win a general election in 2024.
For that you are going to tell me to fuck off?
This is what I meant by Trump cultism.
The issues matter more than one man.
For you to get personally aggrieved over me not wanting Trump 2024 speaks volumes on why the right will continue to fail.
I was confused because that description could also apply for Lauren Boebert, Lara Trump, Ivanka Trump and even Melania Trump.
MTG is surprisingly not shilling as hard for Trump these days compared to the top sycophants Laura Loomer, Kari Lake and Kristi Noem.
Lake recently said that Trump is more special to her than her own husband. Lake is also now retweeting a guy who claims Trump won CA by more than ten points in 2020.I just feel sorry for her husband that he married such a crazy woman.
Laura Loomer's entire twitter feed is just schizophrenic bullshit theories about how DeSantis is somehow the worst RINO to ever exist.
Kristi Noem's team has been recently attacking DeSantis constantly because she will do anything to be his vp pick.
These three women are destroying their dignity while behaving like the most pathetic sycophants I ever seen.
I am not sure who this is a reference to lol.
You are a Trump cultist. Sad
Why are you guys this unhealthily attached to this one flawed man?
You Trump 2024ers are acting like not being to run Trump again to lose in 2024 is an unacceptable attack on your entire way of life.
I just want a candidate who has an actual chance to win 2024. You guys insist that the guy who supercharges Dem turnout is the only option. Just fucking insane.
There are vastly more never Trumpers compared to the amount of cultists who will only vote for Trump.
Not running Trump is clearly the better option.
He has not done one thing right since 2020. Unbelievable how much we have lost since his single win in 2016.
I am sick and tired of these unnecessary losses.
Trump should just retire and enjoy fucking his sycophant shills Laura Loomer, Kari Lake and Kristi Noem.
This guy is running for co-chair not actual chair.
He is Ronna McDaniel's sidekick.
The only people running for RNC chair are Ronna McDaniel and Harmeet Dhillon.
I want Dhillon to win and damn Trump just fucked her chances by endorsing Ronna's sidekick. This signals he is for the status quo. He said he was staying out of the RNC chair race and he does this shit at the last moment.
The terrible endorsements from Trump never stops.
He has already given us Kevin McCarthy as Speaker and now it seems Ronna McDaniel will secure her position as RNC chair again thanks to Trump.
The only establishment Republican in leadership he has endorsed against is McConnell solely due to personal hatred. He ended up endorsing the useless Rick Scott.
McConnell ended up crushing Rick Scott in the Senate leadership race.
Looks like all three establishment leaders will keep their role.
Trump 2024ers please tell me again how only Trump can successfully fight the "establishment".
Harris will do relatively awful compared to any other Dem but TDS still sadly gets her like an electoral win of 270 evs to 268 evs.
It will be razor thin close but I bet she still wins.
Hard to say.
Objectively Trump and Cruz both had the worst GOP performance in Texas in 30 years.
Cruz had the worst Senate GOP Texas performance in 2018 while Trump had the worst Presidential Texas performance in 2020. So far they have never been on a ticket together.
Cruz barely won in 2018 against Beto. He luckily then had Gov Greg Abbott to carry him to victory at the top of the ballot.
Trump will certainly underperform Cruz in 2024 in Texas so he won't be carrying shit.
I fear Trump at the top of the ballot in 2024 might be enough to sink Cruz if the Dems run a strong candidate who appeals to Dallas Fort Worth squishy center right suburban voters. Many of these DFW suburb voters generally voted for Biden in 2020 but they still voted for Cornyn. Will they vote for Cruz if they see their hated nemesis Trump at the topline once again? Tough to say
Looks like the Dems will run Collin Alred or Scott Kelly against Ted Cruz. Allred is unfortunately decently regarded in DFW.
Scott Kelly is a carpetbagger astronaut from Colorado. It will be a tougher battle against Allred. The hilarious part is that I really hope the Dems nominate Beto again for Senate. Cruz might only be safe against the current Beto. Beto has gotten so much weaker since 2018 ever since he has gone along to lose Texas governor in 2022.
People who lose elections perform poorly in future elections generally.
Even if we get actual Great Depression 2.0 in June of 2024, Trump will still lose to the Dem nominee. I am certain that even the worst Dem 2024 candidate Harris sadly still beats Trump by the skin of her teeth.
Trump is done. He cannot win again. He has lost support since 2020. He cannot grow his coalition.
The Trump 2024ers are ramming their head into a wall and fucking us all over their undeserved devotion to one flawed man.
Worst case scenario, we can still win one house of Congress if DeSantis is the nominee and Trump like a jackass runs third party.
Trump as the nominee for 2024 at the topline sinks everyone downballot in swing states and in Texas in particular.
Trump and Cruz potentially on the Texas 2024 ballot at the same time is nightmare fuel. It could be the worst GOP performance in Texas in 32 years. Blexas could even happen in this scenario.
Fuck all of the polls regardless of where it comes from!
The polls are primarily a tool to manipulate public opinion not measure it.
All the final polls in 2022 said that Laxalt wins NV Senate, Dr. Oz wins PA Senate and that Tim Michels wins WI governor.
Anyone can see that none of this ever happened!
All of the left's polls will pump Trump's numbers up artificially because they want him to be nominated again. He is the easiest candidate for them to beat. They want to face him because he supercharges Dem turnout. He gets out the Dem vote like no one else can. They despise him more than any person that has ever existed on Earth. Why the fuck would you nominate this guy again?
Hearing Trumpers say the establishment is afraid of him makes me want to cringe and scream.
Trump is a joke to the establishment. They are objectively stronger at the end of his term than they were at the beginning of his term. He hired only neocons and establishment shills as his entire administration. They suffocated his policy agenda from the inside. Trump has learned nothing from his mistakes and he refuses to accept that he even made any mistakes.
The other sad part is that there are no reputable objective polls these days.
Trafalgar completely shit the bed. They said that races like CO Senate and VT Senate would be close. It was not even within 10 points. What a joke.
Richard Baris will also push fake pro Trump polls because he is an open Trump cultist and wants nothing more than Trump winning the nomination again.
Richard Baris has lost his fucking mind recently and has gotten every single swing state call wrong in 2022. He is also obsessed that John Duarte won a house district in CA and that his fat friend Giglio lost to Duarte in a primary. Sad to see the most talented pollster turn into this clownfire.
They beat Trump when he was an incumbent. They can easily do it again in 2024 since he is weaker and has lost more support than ever before.
Trump will NEVER win a national election again!
I pray the base stops being retarded and accepts reality.
Laura Loomer is mentally deranged and all she does these days is attack Ron DeSantis to push Trump 2024.
She is dumb enough to actually argue that gerrymandering is why DeSantis won the entire counties of Miami Dade and Palm Beach.
Gerrymandering only shifts the composition of the congressional districts not the boundaries of any the actual counties.
She is an absolute retard.
https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1616878650002997253?cxt=HHwWioC8pZmkp_AsAAAA
There you go again misrepresenting my positions, This will be my last reply to any of your bullshit comments.
Trump's track record is not as rosy as you paint it. He doesn't get to run on solely his successes.
He also owns all of 2020 and Jan 1-20 of 2021 and don't forget all of his endorsements in the midterms of 2022.
Trump from 2020-2023 is the farthest thing away from success.
He has a record of letting Fauci shut the country down, he attacked Kemp for opening up too soon, he pushed OWS and still brags about the shit vax to this day, from day one he hired the worst people who undermined him time and time again.
Since 2017 he has the track record of hiring generally only establishment/neocons while claiming to be a based outsider populist, He never took any action against big tech because he had dinner with some of the big tech CEOs and they manipulated him by stroking his ego.
He failed to get key right wing legislation on immigration and health care passed.
He gets to claim credit for no new wars and good economy from 2017-2019.
He also gets to claim credit for the botched COVID response and all the vast repercussions that came from that incompetence.
From my understanding of what they wanted from Pence was that he was asked to send it back to the swing state legislatures.
I don't think he was asked to just declare who the winner is.
Theoretically it is possible constitutionally to send it back to the state legislatures.
Dems didn't control any of the state legislatures in the swing states in 2016. They didn't do this because they did not have the necessary conditions.
You arguing about Trump winning 2020 with a strong economy is like arguing that your aunt would be your uncle if she had balls.
Covid is what allowed for the change in swing state mail in ballot rules and also why the lockdowns demolished the economy. You argued the economy was the sole factor.
COVID ensured his defeat in 2020 and will ensure his defeat in 2024 if he is the nominee again since the same mail in ballot rules are in place in most of the swing states.
Someone new has a better shot at growing the coalition and winning despite the flood of mail in ballots.
Your biggest problem is that you definitely overestimate your knowledge of American politics.
Pathetic that you are this mad that I posted a Poso tweet that could may or may not be actually true.
No one knows why Diamond actually died.
Your complete grandstanding here is pathetic.
I always had general disdain for Europeans and their smug opinions on American politics and my interactions with you have only made it stronger.
Congrats on proving another stereotype of why I despise you clowns.
I never said anything like blaming massive fraud for his loss.
I said that his loss was due to swing states changing the rules regarding mail in ballots.
Don't confuse me with fucking Mike Lindell.
Those same mail in ballot rules are still in play in the same swing states of AZ, WI, MI, NV and PA. He can't win 2024.
You are literally incapable of telling the truth about any of my positions.
Your track record is a joke. All you have done here is misrepresenting all of my past positions and saying that Trump lost 2020 solely due to "muh economy".
You don't know jackshit about American politics.
I suggest you shut the fuck up, you Eurotrash.
I hope Abbott doesn't run again for a fourth term.