He's a blue collar white man. Look up a picture of him. I looked him up and could see exactly why he would appeal to moderate red Texas voters. He's very salt of the earth looking.
We have the 2016 and 2024 elections that demonstrate that a completely unqualified white man running even in SWING STATES trounces an extremely qualified Black woman. Unfortunately, many voters are sexist and racist and no one sees your vote in the voting booth.
Now repeat that same experiment in a red state.
Jasmine Crockett has good national energy, and does well among progressive democrats in Texas. I would be absolutely shocked if she could win in Texas because she will have to run in a state that is 80% Hispanic and White, and that trends very conservative. But I would love to be proven wrong. If she does win, that will be the end of the conversation forever about "we have to have a straight white man in the White House for 2028" and that means that all these conversations about how it must be Andy Beshear or Chris Murphy or Pritzger or Newsom can be put to rest, and we can start having meaningful conversations about how it should be Pete Buttigieg or AOC or Elizabeth Warren.
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