Gotcha. Anyway itās a huge overperformance, esp compared to the 2022 midterm, and Behn doesnāt appear to be a great candidate. I donāt trust Democrats to recruit good ones or Democrat primary voters to nominate them, but Iāve got to think the Republican house candidates are going to start distancing themselves from the president, which will create itās own set of problems.
Itās an R +22 district in 2020, 2022, and 2024.
fun fact! The first person to hold that seat when it was established was future president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston
So basically she hates the same things that like 70% of the people who have lived around there for more than 10-15 years hate.
I think if a congressional candidate for TX-10 or TX-21 saying āI hate the city, I hate 6th street, I hate the comedy scene, I hate the tech bros, I hate all the things that make Austin an āitā city to the rest of the country.ā they would net gain votes.
This team is easy to love. They play HARD. I just wish I could enjoy it without being reminded of what could have been and what was supposed to be.
Fucking Nico.
@Ag with kids has made a convincing argument that the most important consideration is what party the state votes for in presidential years āschools of thought,ā so who cares about any sort of connection or even understanding of place?
A California Republican congressman needs a job! An arbitrary shape in North Texas needs a Republican! Win-win!
TRANSCRIPT POTUS CALL WITH MADURO 15:04EST
POTUS: Nicolas- listen to me Nicolas. I consider you a friend. I met you the one time and I studied you. You are a very hard person to study, because you are sending out messages that are important to the Venuzuelan people. I consider you a friend and I consider you a very smart man. To be very honest with you, I did not want to have to hurt you or your country, but we need to fix this and you are going to change your country to prevent some very bad things from-
MADURO: Senior El Presidente Trump, we cannot accomplish this important thing together on the phone. I want to invite you to chupa.
POTUS: To Chupa?
MADURA: Si Presidente Trump, I want to invite you to chupa mi verga, viejo de merda!
(laughter in background)
POTUS: Nicolas? Nicolas?
(inaudible)
I donāt know he invited me to a get together but
CALL TERMINATED 15:08EST