If Texas starts turning blue, the Republican presidential electoral map instantly becomes problematic
Recently, Texas hasn’t so much been the conservative bastion it used to be. Photo: Tamir Kalifa/Getty Images As the whole world tried to absorb a horrendous act of applied racism from El Paso over the weekend, a fourth House Republican incumbent headed for the exits. The Dallas Morning News reports:
These retirements will definitely erode the already slim odds of a Republican reconquest of the House next year. But their concentration in the Lone Star State could represent a much bigger problem for the GOP. . So let’s just say for the sake of argument that Sean’s right, and that Democrats can for real put Texas in play in 2020. Together they have 49 electoral votes. The famous trio of Rust Belt states that Trump narrowly won to pull off his Electoral College inside straight in 2016 — Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — have 46.
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