Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus said Friday that he believed the party needed to take the threat of Democrats becoming competitive in Texas seriously or it could start turning purple by the end of the decade.
Though Republican Greg Abbott trounced Democrat Wendy Davis in the gubernatorial race on Tuesday — which lead commentators like Red State’s Erick Erickson to say that the Democratic Battleground Texas initiative got “curbstomped” — Priebus said the national and state party had taken it “pretty seriously.”
“I do believe that Battleground Texas did a lot of work down there. They woke up the party,” Priebus told reporters at the Christian Science Monitor breakfast in Washington, D.C. “If we don’t start paying attention … it’s possible the party could have a problem in years to come.”
Republicans have been investing specifically in Hispanic engagement and establishing regional offices for the last year and a half, Priebus added, and planned to maintain those efforts. A specific budget hadn’t been set for next year, but he hinted it would be significant.
“We know that we have to hold and get better in Texas,” he said. “While I don’t think it’s going to be a problem in 2016, we can’t forget about Texas. By 2020, 2024, I don’t want to see it becoming a close state or a state becoming purple.”
If oil keeps falling or stays low, the Texas “miracle” could become a problem for them.
He then immediately pivoted to ranting red-faced about border security, deporting “them” all, sending them “back where they came from” and equating the allowance of any pathway to citizenship and voting rights to exist at all with total “amnesty” for those “border hopping invaders.” He then ended with dire warnings regarding the rising tide of voter fraud in TX.
Wow. You mean Texas will still exist in 2016? I’m totally confused, as I thought President Obola (hey, I made a funny!) was intentionally bringing the Ebola virus to Dallas in order to kill all Texas citizens and make Jesus cry. Or at least that’s what I’ve been told by every news outlet in the country for two fucking months.
Never mind. My bad. Turns out the mid-term elections are now over, so we no longer need any Ebola stories.
“If we’re not careful” means “go out and ratfuck the districts some more”.
Carve Austin into 9 pieces instead of just 5.
Republicans have been engaged to Hispanics for a year and a half, but they’ll never get married.