03-20-2018, 03:23 PM
(03-14-2018, 01:22 PM)Duchess Wrote:(03-14-2018, 12:54 PM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: They both focused their campaigns and how they'd represent their constituents' best interests, not on smears against their competitors or anti-Trump platforms. Good on them.
I hear ya! I don't want to see any candidate who is running using the majorities dislike of trump as a way to get ahead. They need to rise above it because the dislike isn't enough. They need a message and anti-trump is not it.
About a year ago, Democrat Beto O'Rourke announced that he would challenge Ted Cruz this November for the Texas senate seat.
O'Rourke ^, who has been a House Representative since 2013, didn't get a lot of coverage back then. But as the midterms get closer, I'm seeing him in the news a lot more.
He's more liberal that Conor Lamb, from what I can see. But, he truly believes he has a chance in this divisive climate......even though El Paso last elected a Democrat to Senate back in 1988, Cruz won his seat by 16 points back in 2012, and Trump won the presidential vote there by 9 points in 2016.
Like Lamb, O'Rourke quickly distanced himself from the Republican notion that all Democrats are puppets to Nancy Pelosi. She sure has a lot of power over the minds of the GOP.
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