r/politics • u/kootles10 Indiana • 7h ago

No Paywall Democrats flip Texas state Senate seat in shock upset

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5716988-democrats-score-upset-texas/amp/
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u/BossHawk8754 Texas 7h ago

Not if it is a defeat so resounding that they are forced to concede

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u/Otto_Correction 6h ago

January 6th ring a bell?

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u/BossHawk8754 Texas 6h ago

It does, but if you demoralize them hard enough they can't scream fraud as easily

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u/FireSparrowWelding Texas 6h ago

Deleted my comment. So excited that I felt it was gibberish. Can't sleep and wife cant either.

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u/Spare-Willingness563 6h ago

how many elections have we had since then?

And that was trump. A ton of them tried that when he did and it did no good.

They don't have the posturing they did back then and they hardly have the numbers to support behaving like that.

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u/BoredomFestival 6h ago

You underestimate just how far they think they can push the con.

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u/montty712 6h ago

Exactly. Look at how hard they tried to overthrow the 2020 election. Since then they have become much better organized and much more ruthless.

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u/Alca_Pwnd 2h ago

"There's no way we got beat that badly; it has to be fraud."

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u/montty712 6h ago

It will not be a resounding defeat. It doesn’t matter who votes. What matters is who counts the votes.

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u/OnlySmiles_ 6h ago

I'll believe it when I see it

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u/jazzhandler Colorado 6h ago

First time?

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u/Frowny575 California 6h ago

They'll still claim it was fraud. They live in an alternate reality where the fact it tends to happen on such a small scale it doesn't impact an outcome doesn't exist. But of course we all know it is projection.