As the 2020 elections begin to grow larger on the horizon, it’ll be interesting to see how well the traditional Republican strategies are utilized. Recently, the Texas GOP accidentally sent a draft document on state-wide election strategies to its opponents, and they chose to share it with The Dallas Morning News. This particular bit shows something unshocking:
The plan also identifies the Republican-led elimination of straight ticket voting as “one of the biggest challenges ahead of the 2020 cycle.” To address that, the plan details an effort to convince Republican voters to vote for GOP candidates all the way down the ballot manually through a tagline. Some of the potential taglines include: “Vote Right All the Way Down!” “Vote Right To The Bottom!” and “Vote RIGHT Down the Ballot!”
The Texas GOP has a crucial problem – right at the top of the ticket is a candidate whose official behavior appears to be impeachable, whose personal behavior is reprehensible, and under his leadership our Executive has been so incompetent that what little legislation has come under his pen has been impotent enough that the country continues to coast under the admirable momentum imparted by the previous Administration – despite the general misgivings of a rural America increasingly battered by Big Ag on one hand, and the President’s tariff wars on the other.
And the voices of sanity within the conservatives are ringing louder and louder with uncomfortable facts, such as this guy, who expressly advocates that Republicans discard the team politics rule and let their minds and consciences dictate their vote.
While some voters, particularly Evangelicals, are indulging in magical thinking concerning President Trump and his achievements, those Republicans who are becoming more and more disenchanted with the President are seeing the lessons of team politics displayed in front of their noses.
And with the resurgence of the Texas Democrats, the Texas GOP has one big mountain to climb. It’s called Mount Trump, and it’s full of ice, crevasses, and hidden moral traps. They will be fortunate to surmount it. And with a number of Texas Congressional members calling it quits at the end of this session, their unnatural lack of incumbents makes their problem that much worse.
