this entryism idea has existed since the days of Lenin,

very, very few voters risk it

Total votes cast in the 2014 TX primaries (for comparison to tonight):
Governor
GOP - 1.3 million
DEM - 546K
Senator
GOP - 1.3 million
DEM - 507K

and what were the actual election results

Coming in .

now?

Senate 2014 Election Results: 2,855,068 (John Cornyn - GOP) , 1,594,252 (David Alameel - DEM)

So around 1 million more in comparison to the primaries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_gubernatorial_election,_2014

for the Gubernatorial elections, roughly 1.3 million more in comparison to the primaries

Was it a particularly competitive year? Were there some new faces?

nope

2012-2014 Texas was much whiter

and more rural

Alright, so Abbott happened to be new in 2014, and so was Cruz in 2012.

the demographics have shifted a _lot_ since then

Yes, that is certainly a big problem.

Lots of lefties moving to Austin from what I hear

All the lefties at my HS want to move to Texas

Thing is, primaries in this case make sense if there's not as many Rs going to the polls, there's not any real competitors to Abbott or Cruz.

House elections don't motivate people too much either.

So yeah, it's very easy to see why there's not as much motivation to go to primaries this time around.

Demographics are a major issue which we do have to pay attention to, however. This is a big problem.

"Rust Belt Democrats praise Trump's tariffs"

fantastic news

**NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO**

results are coming in

I wonder who these people challenging Cruz are

they're all getting easily crushed

also, I'm not too concerned that the Dem voters in the primaries outnumber the GOP voters

it seems everyone knows Ted and many other GOP incumbents are staying, so why bother going out to vote for them?

<@&414478847266783243> any thoughts on this from any Texan in this Discord ?

oh wait, Cruz is way ahead right now, though the DEM total is still higher than the GOP total

all that still with less than 1% reporting

Yeah there's not much worth speculating on atm with so little reportinf.

My thoughts? Demographic shifts are real and have impacts.

yikes

I think the Dem is going to outnumber the GOP in TX-23

TX-32, oh jesus