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In reply to the discussion: Who do you want to see as the Democratic nominee for the TX U.S. Senate seat? [View all]Jack Valentino
(4,841 posts)NOT 'cautious moderates' or candidates who want to
"be bi-partisan with satan incarnate" or "triangulators",
or some state legislator candidate with a smaller base than Crockett
who wants to debate religion with the far-right wing!
(Sure, that's an issue, which isn't likely to do much to mobilize
the people of color in Texas!)
'CAUTION' and an attempt at 'moderation' is what cost Hillary the 2016 election by a few thousand votes in three states---
she SHOULD have found herself an African-American running mate SOMEWHERE,
to try to minimize the inevitable fall-off of AA voting after the first black president---
and that person would have become a new 'star' to encourage minority voting!
(which I said before she chose her running mate,
and I think Joe Biden or his people possibly heard me)
Instead, she chose a "safe" boring white male (speaking as another boring white male),
and if I recall correctly, the 2016 AA voter turnout in my state of Michigan
dropped to mid-term election levels in key counties... which sealed her defeat in this state.
Joe Biden chose differently----- and he won here, and across the country!
2026 is NOT the year for Democrats to try to be 'moderate and cautious and rather WHITE again'---
that has NOT worked, and it hasn't worked in Texas!
It is time to be BOLD and FIGHT! THAT strategy elected a 'socialist' in New York city,
and that same strategy could elect an AA woman to the Senate seat in Texas!
(tired of Democrats apologizing in advance for what they believe in)