In the lead-up to Tuesday’s Texas primaries, Republican candidates looking to unseat GOP incumbents from the governor’s mansion to the Texas Capitol rallied around a theme: attacking their opponents for not being conservative enough. Take East Texas U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, who was vying for the GOP nomination for attorney...
Texas republicans sought to outflank incumbents on conservative credentials. It didn't work out great.In the lead-up to Tuesday’s Texas primaries, Republican candidates looking to unseat GOP incumbents from the governor’s mansion to the Texas Capitol rallied around a theme: attacking their opponents for not being conservative enough., who was vying for the GOP nomination for attorney general.
The strategy has its uses when it comes to driving GOP officeholders to shift their stances to the right to protect their flanks. Abbotts' campaign in recent months pretty much ended any small reputation he might have still retained as a sort-of centrist. Still, Tuesday’s primary showed that calling a GOP officeholder a RINO or suggesting that long-time party stalwarts are really closet leftists has limits when it comes to winning races.
Republicans aiming to out-conservative incumbents didn’t fare well in races for Congress or the Texas Legislature. U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, an incumbent from the Houston area, crushed challenger Jameson Ellis, who spent the lead-up to the race trying to paint Crenshaw as not conservative enough to represent the district’s interests.
O’Hare painted Price, a longtime public official in Tarrant County, as an entrenched liberal whose conservative values could not be trusted. He won ringing endorsements from President Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in the run-up to Tuesday’s primary.
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