Texas political strategists have been carefully monitoring the fallout from O’Rourke’s “Hell yes” self-immolation: “Beto, like a big dummy, gave away the game”
John Cornyn,
who is up for reelection in 2020. Forget the presidential campaign, the thinking went, and help Democrats retake the Senate. Now, however, some wonder if Beto has blown his shot at a successful homecoming. “When people start talking about mandatory buybacks for a whole range of reasons, it gets really personal for people really fast,” said Republican strategistespecially in the Lone Star state. “For those who are motivated [by gun control], they’re really passionate about it,” she added.
manager of polling and research at the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin, to the Texas Tribune. “The emphasis on personal responsibility, whether that’s parents or decisions made under psychological duress, is still there.”
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