Category Archives: Republicans

Dan Crenshaw on Face the Nation

Texas Republican Congressman-elect Dan Crenshaw appeared on Face the Nation, and calmly, rationally made the case that the ideas that President Donald Trump is “attacking Democracy” and “attacking the press” is utter nonsense.

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Texas Election Results Analysis: The Warning Shot

This is going to be a “glass half empty” kind of post, so let’s start out enumerating all the positives for Texas Republicans from the 2018 midterms: Ted Cruz, arguably the face of conservatism in Texas, won his race despite … Continue reading →

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Dennis Bonnen Sews Up Texas House Speaker’s Race

State Rep. Dennis Bonnen says that he has enough fellow Republican representatives pledged to him to became the next Speaker, replacing the retiring (and wildly reviled) Joe Straus. State Rep. Dennis Bonnen announced Monday that he has support from 109 … Continue reading →

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Dan Crenshaw Slays On SNL

Following Saturday Night Live player Pete Davidson foolishly goofing on the eye Navy SEAL Lt. Com. Dan Crenshaw lost to an IED on his third deployment in Afghanistan, now Republican Congressman-elect Crenshaw came on SNL to get him back. A … Continue reading →

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More 2018 Post Election Analysis

Busy as hell today. Here’s some more election analysis of note: Jim Geraghty: Dear God, did the Senate Democrats’ strategy on Brett Kavanaugh backfire on them on an epic scale. I do think that before the Kavanaugh fight, the Democrats … Continue reading →

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Morning After 2018 Election Update

A few quick updates: Republicans are on-track to pickup five senate seats, including Arizona and Montana, but Republican Dean Heller lost in Nevada. (Update: Democrat Jon Tester back in the Montana Senate race lead narrowly.) Democrats pick up 27 House … Continue reading →

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Liveblogging the 2018 Election

AZ, NV and MT Senate races all too close to call, but Republicans are leading in all three right now. I’m out of gas and heading to bed. Analysis tomorrow. BREAKING: Republican @DevinNunes wins re-election to the House in California's … Continue reading →

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2018 Election Day Post

Happy election day, everyone! Go vote, if you haven’t already. A list of Williamson County voting locations can be found here. A PDF of Travis County voting locations is here. A list of my endorsements for Round Rock ISD and … Continue reading →

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Your Obligatory “Day Before the Election” Horserace Post

Election day is tomorrow! So here’s a brief roundup of the state of play: Here’s the way Real Clear Politics breaks down Senate races: They show North Dakota Democrat incumbent Heidi Heitkamp as gone, which already brings Republicans up to … Continue reading →

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Willie Horton, Willie Horton

Ann Althouse links a Washington Post piece that declares “Trump revives ‘Willie Horton’ tactic with ad linking illegal immigrant killer to Democrats” based on this Trump tweet containing a (NSFW) ad: It is outrageous what the Democrats are doing to … Continue reading →

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